Developing Ambiance With Gardens

Throughout his 40-year profession as a garden writer and photographer, Derek Fell has designed quite a few garden spaces, many involving his wife Carolyn. The most beneficial example of their function is usually observed at their property, historic Cedaridge Farm, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, they have designed extra than twenty theme locations, like 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 style towards the White Home for the duration of the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek made Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', advising the nation ten methods to fight inflation.

Quite a few garden designs by Derek Fell happen to be implemented without having inspecting the web-site. The fantastic late architect Frank Lloyd Wright made stunning houses for his clientele, totally from photographs devoid of the need to have to get a web-site inspection.

Fell's garden spaces happen to be featured in newspapers, magazines, books as well as 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 a lot more than sixty books and garden calendars, such as 550 House 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 spring season gardening  is often tricked over stones, cascaded from a terrific 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 is often 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 might be chosen to produce a parade of color through all the seasons, or concentrated for any particular season. Color themes is often polychromatic like a rainbow, monochromatic (for example all white - perfect for a 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 will need to live in a frost-free area to have a attractive tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have two - one is a tribute to the style 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 throughout winter or is usually discarded like annuals at the end with the season. Our second tropical space is a patio with tropical plants grown in containers.

Shade Gardens. We design 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 in the two.

Woodland Garden. Whether you have existing woodland or you need to create a woodland from scratch, the result might be 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 much more layers of interest, at ground level and the under-story.

Vegetable Garden. We can design 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 for a garden that was approved for the White residence throughout 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.