Creating Ambiance with gardens9

Creating Ambiance With Gardens

During his 40-year career as a garden writer and photographer, Derek Fell has created many garden areas, many involving 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 designed more than twenty style areas, including shade gardens, bright perennial borders, tapestry gardens involving trees and shrubs, a cottage 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 created Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', advising the country ten ways to eliminate inflation.

Many garden styles by Derek Fell have been executed without checking the website. The great late designer Frank Lloyd Wright developed lovely homes for his clients, entirely from photographs without the need for a site examination.

Fell's garden areas have been included in newspapers, publications, books and also on tv, including Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society), Nation Gardens, HGTV, QVC and PBS.

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

Curb appeal and atmosphere are important to cheer up your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Feel free to ask Derek any garden related questions no matter how big or small.

SOME GARDEN TYPES

Water Garden. Water is the music of nature. It can be deceived over stones, cascaded from a great height so its crashes onto rocks. It can fall in a solid sheet or as silver threads. A lovely 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 consists of a swimming 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.

Bright Seasonal Border. This can be official or casual, square, rectangle-shaped, round and kidney shaped, in the form of an island bed or backed versus an ornamental hedge, wall or fence. Plants can be picked to produce a parade of color through all the seasons, or concentrated for a particular season. Color themes can be polychromatic like a rainbow, monochromatic (for instance all white - best for a wedding event), or it can include 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 perennial garden design is 2 parallel border with a turf course causing a centerpiece such as a sculpture or gazebo.

Tropical Garden. You do not need to live in a frost-free area to have a beautiful tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have two - one is a homage to the design viewpoint of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who created remarkable 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 during winter season or can be discarded like annuals at the end of the season. Our second tropical space is a patio area with tropical plants grown in containers.

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

Forest Garden. Whether you have existing woodland or you need to produce a woodland from scratch, the outcome can be astonishing. Decide whether you want deciduous trees that provide fall color or evergreens that stay green all winter season, or a mix. At Cedaridge we made a 'cathedral' garden where the existing trees are cut high so the trunks appear like the columns of a cathedral, and the branches arch out to satisfy overhead like the vaulted ceiling of a cathedral. Below, we offer 2 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 impact. We can offer the prepare for a garden that was approved for the White house during the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked as a garden consultant. Derek Fell's book, "Veggies - 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 numerous calendars and books, consisting of Derek Fell's 'Herb Gardening for Beginners.' We can also offer a cartwheel design or a parterre herb garden for abundant harvests of fresh herbs. The Herb Garden can also do double-duty as a vegetable garden.

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

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

Cottage Garden. You don't need a cottage to have a home garden. But if you do, such as a guest cottage, why not cover it in shrub roses and climbers, plus those wonderful English home 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 poison 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 create a design where the water is re-circulated along one that's manufactured but looks natural.

Orchard. You do not need a lot of area for a productive orchard. By making the right choices, fruit trees can be grown in containers or espaliered against fences and walls to save space. Peaches and apples can be trained over arbors. Simply a few plants of small fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be highly efficient.

Bog Garden. Ideal for soils that tend to stay wet all season, bog gardens can be incredibly colorful and highly imaginative, incorporating stepping stones and bridges to cross wet locations, and growing some of nature's most diverse plant families, such as water iris, Japanese primroses, astilbe and waterlilies.

Japanese Garden. The problem with many Japanese gardens is a tendency to use pseudo-Japanese aspects such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has actually two times taken a trip to Japan, has actually composed award-winning short articles about Japanese garden design, and has the experience to design authentic-looking areas in the Japanese tradition using elements of Zen or Feng Shui, or a mix of the two disciplines to develop a wonderful area.

Italian Garden. Although Italian gardens can be highly extravagant, needing steep slopes to achieve the best effect, like the Villa d'Este, near Rome, little spaces can achieve the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell has not just checked out some of the finest Italian Gardens, such as La Mortola on the Italian coast, and Boboli overlooking Florence, he has explored and photographed the Vatican Gardens.

French Formal Garden. The elaborate design of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, may be beyond your methods, but elements of French garden design, such as a parterre garden, can be integrated in small areas.

Monet's Garden. This gorgeous artist's garden north of Paris consists of more than a hundred special planting ideas to develop what Monet considered his greatest artwork. Furthermore, his planting ideas have certainly motivated more new garden design than any other garden. Monet's arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches leading to the entrance of his house, and his color harmonies are simply some examples of Monet's development that people today like to imitate.

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

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