Building Ambiance With Gardens

During his 40-year profession as a garden writer and photographer, Derek Fell has made several garden spaces, many involving his wife Carolyn. The most effective instance of their operate can be noticed at their house, historic Cedaridge Farm, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, they have created far more than twenty theme areas, such as shade gardens, sunny perennial borders, tapestry gardens involving trees and shrubs, a cottage garden, herb garden, cutting garden and an ambitious water garden.

Derek worked as a consultant on garden design and style towards the White Residence in the course of the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek created Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', advising the nation ten strategies to fight inflation.

Several garden designs by Derek Fell have been implemented without the need of inspecting the website. The terrific late architect Frank Lloyd Wright developed stunning houses for his clientele, entirely from photographs devoid of the have to have for a site inspection.

Fell's garden spaces happen to be featured in newspapers, magazines, books and also on television, including Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine on the Royal Horticultural Society), Nation Gardens, HGTV, QVC and PBS.

Derek has authored additional than sixty books and garden calendars, like 550 Household Landscaping Concepts (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Garden Style (Firefly Books), The Complete Garden Planning Manual (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Household Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).

Curb appeal and ambiance are important to brighten up your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Feel free to ask Derek any garden related questions regardless of how big or small.

SOME GARDEN TYPES

Water Garden. Water is the music of nature. It garden  is usually tricked over stones, cascaded from a wonderful height so its crashes onto rocks. It can fall in a solid sheet or as silver threads. A stunning water garden with waterfalls and stepping stones can be located in sunlight or shade. The water garden shown here is located at Cedaridge Farm. It includes a pool for dipping, and it features both a collection of koi and hardy water lilies. A popular water garden design features a koi pool fed by a series of waterfalls, and the water re-circulated through filters to keep the water clear.

Sunny Perennial Border. This could be formal or informal, square, rectangular, round and kidney shaped, in the form of an island bed or backed against a decorative hedge, wall or fence. Plants is often chosen to produce a parade of color through all the seasons, or concentrated for a particular season. Color themes might be polychromatic like a rainbow, monochromatic (for example all white - perfect for any wedding), or it can feature an Impressionist color harmony, such as yellow and purple; orange and blue; red, pink and silver; blue, pink and white; even black and white or black and orange (one of Monet's favorites). A popular perennial garden style is two parallel border with a grass path leading to a focal point such as a sculpture or gazebo.

Tropical Garden. You do not have to have to live in a frost-free area to have a beautiful tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have two - one is a tribute towards the design philosophy in the late Roberto Burle Marx, who developed dramatic tropical gardens around Rio. It is in a lightly shaded area and features plants that are hardy (like 'Sum & Substance' hosta) but look tropical and tender plants that are tender (like banana trees and tree ferns) that either have to have moving indoors in the course of winter or is often discarded like annuals at the end in the season. Our second tropical space is a patio with tropical plants grown in containers.

Shade Gardens. We style two kinds of shade gardens - one where the plants provide mostly foliage interest (like ferns, hostas, heuchera and hakone grass), and plants that flower well (like impatiens, coleus, and lilies), or a combination with the two.

Woodland Garden. Whether you have existing woodland or you need to create a woodland from scratch, the result is usually sensational. Decide whether you want deciduous trees that provide fall color or evergreens that stay green all winter, or a mixture. At Cedaridge we made a 'cathedral' garden where the existing trees are trimmed high so the trunks look like the columns of a cathedral, and the branches arch out to meet overhead like the vaulted ceiling of a cathedral. Below, we provide two extra layers of interest, at ground level and the under-story.

Vegetable Garden. We can style you an easy-care garden of raised beds where vegetables are planted in blocks or an edible landscape where edibles are grown for ornamental effect. We can provide the plan to get a garden that was approved for the White residence for the duration of the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked as a garden consultant. Derek Fell's book, "Vegetables - How to Select, Grow & Enjoy", won a ideal book award from the Garden Writers Association.