Creating Ambiance with gardens8

Producing Atmosphere With Gardens

Throughout his 40-year career as a garden author and professional photographer, Derek Fell has actually developed various garden areas, many including his other half Carolyn. The very best example of their work can be seen at their home, historic Cedaridge Farm, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, they have created more than twenty style locations, consisting of shade gardens, sunny perennial borders, tapestry gardens involving trees and shrubs, a home garden, herb garden, cutting garden and an enthusiastic water garden.

Derek worked as a consultant on garden design to the White House during the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek developed Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', advising the nation 10 ways to combat inflation.

Many garden styles by Derek Fell have been carried out without examining the website. The great late designer Frank Lloyd Wright developed gorgeous homes for his customers, entirely from photographs without the need for a site inspection.

Fell's garden spaces have been featured in papers, magazines, books and also on tv, including Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society), Country Gardens, HGTV, QVC and PBS.

Derek has authored more than sixty books and garden calendars, including 550 Home Landscaping Concepts (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Garden Design (Firefly Books), The Total Garden Preparation Manual (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Home Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).

Curb appeal and atmosphere are important to illuminate your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Feel free to ask Derek any garden associated questions despite how big or small.

SOME GARDEN TYPES

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

Warm Perennial Border. This can be formal or informal, square, rectangular, round and kidney shaped, in the form of an island bed or backed against an ornamental hedge, wall or fence. Plants can be chosen to produce a parade of color through all the seasons, or focused for a particular season. Color styles can be polychromatic like a rainbow, monochromatic (for instance all white - best 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 (among Monet's favorites). A popular seasonal garden design is two parallel border with a yard path causing a focal point such as a sculpture or gazebo.

Tropical Garden. You do not need to reside in a frost-free location to have a lovely tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have two - one is a homage to the design viewpoint of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who designed dramatic tropical gardens around Rio. It remains in a gently shaded location and functions plants that are durable (like 'Sum & Compound' hosta) but look tropical and tender plants that are tender (like banana trees and tree ferns) that either need moving inside throughout winter or can be disposed of like annuals at the end of the season. Our second tropical space is a patio with tropical plants grown in containers.

Shade Gardens. We design two sort of shade gardens - one where the plants provide mainly foliage interest (like ferns, hostas, heuchera and hakone lawn), and plants that flower well (like impatiens, coleus, and lilies), or a combination of the two.

Forest Garden. Whether you have existing woodland or you need to produce a forest from scratch, the result can be spectacular. Decide whether you want deciduous trees that offer fall color or evergreens that remain green all winter, or a mix. At Cedaridge we made a 'cathedral' garden where the existing trees are cut high so the trunks look like the columns of a cathedral, and the branches arch out to satisfy overhead like the risen ceiling of a cathedral. Listed below, we offer two 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 veggies are planted in blocks or an edible landscape where edibles are grown for ornamental effect. We can supply the plan for a garden that was approved for the White house during the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked as a garden specialist. Derek Fell's book, "Vegetables - How to Select, Grow & Enjoy", won a best book award from the Garden Writers Association.

Herb Garden. The herb garden at Cedaridge Farm is a 'quadrant design', function in many calendars and books, including Derek Fell's 'Herb Gardening for Beginners.' We can also provide a cartwheel design or a parterre herb garden for bountiful harvests of fresh herbs. The Herb Garden can also do double-duty as a vegetable garden.

Cutting Garden. The cutting garden at Cedaridge Farm features bulbs such as tulips and daffodils for spring, and ever-blooming annuals to follow the bulbs so armloads of flowers can be harvested from April through October.

Victorian Garden. A garden with romantic overtones! Imagine a white gazebo framed by mostly white flowers for a wedding event in the family. Or pick from amongst several color harmonies, such as yellow and blue, red, pink and silver, or blue, pink and white.

Cottage Garden. You do not need a cottage to have a cottage garden. But if you do, such as a guest home, why not wrap it in shrub roses and climbers, plus those wonderful English cottage garden plants like poppies, sunflowers and pinks. We also like to include plants to attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

Stream Garden. Fortunate you if you have an existing stream to be landscaped. At Cedaridge Farm we have a stream, but when we moved here it was overgrown with toxin ivy and brambles. Today it is criss-crossed with bridges, and beds of moisture-loving plants like astilbe and water iris. If you do not have a stream, but would like one, we can produce a design where the water is re-circulated along one that's manufactured but looks natural.

Orchard. You do not need a great deal of space for an efficient orchard. By making the ideal options, fruit trees can be grown in containers or espaliered versus fences and walls to save area. Peaches and apples can be trained over arbors. Just a few plants of small fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be extremely productive.

Bog Garden. Ideal for soils that tend to stay moist all season, bog gardens can be extremely colorful and extremely imaginative, including stepping stones and bridges to cross damp areas, and growing some of nature's most varied plant households, such as water iris, Japanese primroses, astilbe and waterlilies.

Japanese Garden. The issue with many Japanese gardens is a propensity to use pseudo-Japanese components such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has actually twice traveled to Japan, has actually composed acclaimed articles about Japanese garden design, and has the experience to design authentic-looking areas in the Japanese custom using elements of Zen or Feng Shui, or a mix of the two disciplines to develop a magical area.

Italian Garden. Although Italian gardens can be highly over the top, needing high slopes to achieve the best effect, like the Rental property d'Este, near Rome, small areas can achieve the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell has not just visited some of the finest Italian Gardens, such as La Mortola on the Italian coast, and Boboli neglecting Florence, he has actually explored and photographed the Vatican Gardens.

French Official Garden. The fancy design of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, might be beyond your methods, but components of French garden design, such as a parterre garden, can be incorporated in small spaces.

Monet's Garden. This stunning artist's garden north of Paris includes more than a hundred special planting ideas to create what Monet considered his greatest work of art. Furthermore, his planting ideas have certainly motivated more new garden design than any other garden. Monet's arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches resulting in the entryway of his house, and his color harmonies are just some examples of Monet's development that people today like to emulate.

Tapestry Garden (Trees & Shrubs). The great French Impressionist artist, Paul Cezanne's garden, in Provence, is made up mainly of trees and shrubs, not just as a labor saving gadget, but to supply a tapestry of color from leaf colors, leaf texture and leaf shapes. What could be more enticing than to look out of a window of your home at an abundant foliage panorama, including all shades of green from light green to dark-green, plus blue, silver, gold, bronze?

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