Developing Ambiance With Gardens
Throughout his 40-year profession as a garden writer and professional photographer, Derek Fell has actually designed various garden areas, many including his better half Carolyn. The very best example of their work can be seen at their home, historical Cedaridge Farm, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, they have created more than twenty theme locations, consisting of shade gardens, sunny seasonal borders, tapestry gardens including trees and shrubs, a cottage garden, herb garden, cutting garden and an enthusiastic water garden.
Derek worked as an expert on garden design to the White House during the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek developed Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', recommending the country ten ways to fight inflation.
Many garden styles by Derek Fell have been carried out without inspecting the site. The great late architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed stunning homes for his clients, entirely from photos without the need for a site assessment.
Fell's garden spaces have been included in papers, publications, books and also on television, including Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society), Nation Gardens, HGTV, QVC and PBS.
Derek has actually authored more than sixty books and garden calendars, consisting of 550 Home Landscaping Concepts (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 very important to cheer up your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Feel free to ask Derek any garden associated concerns regardless of how huge or little.
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 gorgeous water garden with waterfalls and stepping stones can be found 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 durable 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 Perennial Border. This can be official 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 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), or it can include an Impressionist color consistency, 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 resulting in a centerpiece such as a sculpture or gazebo.
Tropical Garden. You do not need to reside in a frost-free area to have a gorgeous tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have 2 - one is a homage to the design viewpoint of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who created remarkable tropical gardens around Rio. It is in a gently shaded location 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 need moving inside your home throughout winter or can be disposed of like annuals at the end of the season. Our second tropical space is an outdoor patio with tropical plants grown in containers.
Shade Gardens. We design 2 sort of shade gardens - one where the plants offer primarily foliage interest (like ferns, hostas, heuchera and hakone turf), 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 woodland from scratch, the outcome can be sensational. Choose whether you want deciduous trees that offer 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 appear like the columns of a cathedral, and the branches arch out to meet overhead like the vaulted 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 vegetables are planted in blocks or an edible landscape where edibles are grown for ornamental effect. We can offer the plan for a garden that was authorized for the White house throughout the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked as a garden expert. 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 numerous calendars and books, including Derek Fell's 'Herb Gardening for Beginners.' We can also supply a cartwheel design or a parterre herb garden for plentiful 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 harvested from April through October.
Victorian Garden. A garden with romantic overtones! Envision a white gazebo framed by mostly white flowers for a wedding event in the family. Or pick from among numerous color harmonies, 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 cottage 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 consist of plants to bring in butterflies and hummingbirds.
Stream Garden. Lucky 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 don't 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 don't need a great deal of space for an efficient orchard. By making the ideal options, fruit trees can be grown in containers or espaliered against fences and walls to save space. Peaches and apples can be trained over arbors. Just a couple of plants of little fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be extremely productive.
Bog Garden. Suitable for soils that tend to stay moist all season, bog gardens can be exceptionally vibrant and highly imaginative, including stepping stones and bridges to cross wet areas, and growing a few of nature's most diverse 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 two times taken a trip to Japan, has written award-winning 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 produce a wonderful space.
Italian Garden. Although Italian gardens can be highly ostentatious, needing steep slopes to achieve the best result, like the Villa d'Este, near Rome, small spaces can achieve the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell has not just checked out a few of the finest Italian Gardens, such as La Mortola on the Italian coast, and Boboli ignoring Florence, he has explored and photographed the Vatican Gardens.
French Official Garden. The elaborate style of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, might be beyond your means, but aspects of French garden design, such as a parterre garden, can be included in little areas.
Monet's Garden. This gorgeous artist's garden north of Paris consists of more than a hundred special planting ideas to create what Monet considered his greatest masterpiece. Furthermore, his planting concepts have unquestionably influenced more new garden design than any other garden. Monet's arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches leading to the entryway of his house, and his color consistencies are simply some examples of Monet's innovation that people today like to emulate.
Tapestry Garden (Trees & Shrubs). The great French Impressionist artist, Paul Cezanne's garden, in Provence, is composed mainly of trees and shrubs, not only 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 keep an eye out of a window of your home at a rich foliage panorama, including all tones of green from light green to dark-green, plus blue, silver, gold, bronze?
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