Creating Atmosphere With Gardens
During his 40-year career as a garden writer and professional photographer, Derek Fell has actually created various garden areas, many including his spouse Carolyn. The 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 theme locations, including 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 an expert on garden design to the White House during the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek designed Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', recommending the country 10 ways to fight inflation.
Many garden styles by Derek Fell have been executed without checking the site. The great late architect Frank Lloyd Wright created stunning homes for his clients, totally from photos without the need for a website assessment.
Fell's garden spaces have been included in newspapers, publications, books and also on television, consisting of Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society), Country Gardens, HGTV, QVC and PBS.
Derek has actually authored more than sixty books and garden calendars, including 550 Home Landscaping Ideas (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Garden Design (Firefly Books), The Complete Garden Planning Manual (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Home Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).
Curb appeal and ambiance are very important to illuminate your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Do not hesitate to ask Derek any garden related concerns regardless of 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 gorgeous water garden with waterfalls and stepping stones can be located in sunlight or shade. The water garden revealed here is located at Cedaridge Farm. It includes a pool for dipping, and it features both a collection of koi and sturdy water lilies. A popular water garden design includes a koi swimming pool fed by a series of waterfalls, and the water re-circulated through filters to keep the water clear.
Warm Seasonal Border. This can be official or casual, square, rectangular, round and kidney shaped, in the form of an island bed or backed against a decorative 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 example all white - perfect for a wedding event), or it can feature 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 (one of Monet's favorites). A popular seasonal garden design is 2 parallel border with a grass path leading to a focal point 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 developed dramatic tropical gardens around Rio. It remains in a lightly 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 throughout winter or can be discarded like annuals at the end of the season. Our second tropical area is a patio area with tropical plants grown in containers.
Shade Gardens. We design two type of shade gardens - one where the plants supply 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.
Woodland Garden. Whether you have existing woodland or you need to produce a woodland from scratch, the result can be marvelous. Decide whether you want deciduous trees that offer fall color or evergreens that remain green all winter season, 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 risen ceiling of a cathedral. Below, we supply 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 decorative impact. We can supply the prepare for a garden that was authorized for the White house during the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked as a garden expert. 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', feature in numerous calendars and books, consisting of Derek Fell's 'Herb Gardening for Beginners.' We can also provide 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 gathered from April through October.
Victorian Garden. A garden with romantic overtones! Envision a white gazebo framed by mainly white flowers for a wedding in the family. Or pick from amongst several color harmonies, such as yellow and blue, red, pink and silver, or blue, pink and white.
Home Garden. You don't need a cottage to have a cottage garden. But if you do, such as a visitor 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. 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 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 a productive orchard. By making the right 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. Simply a couple of plants of small fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be extremely efficient.
Bog Garden. Ideal for soils that tend to stay wet all season, bog gardens can be incredibly colorful and highly creative, integrating stepping stones and bridges to cross damp locations, and growing a few 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 elements such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has actually twice taken a trip to Japan, has written award-winning articles about Japanese garden design, and has the experience to design authentic-looking spaces in the Japanese tradition using aspects of Zen or Feng Shui, or a mix of the two disciplines to produce a wonderful space.
Italian Garden. Although Italian gardens can be extremely extravagant, requiring high slopes to achieve the very best result, like the Villa d'Este, near Rome, little areas can achieve the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell has not only visited a few of the finest Italian Gardens, such as La Mortola on the Italian coast, and Boboli ignoring Florence, he has visited and photographed the Vatican Gardens.
French Official Garden. The fancy design of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, may be beyond your means, but aspects of French garden design, such as a parterre garden, can be integrated in little areas.
Monet's Garden. This gorgeous artist's garden north of Paris includes more than a hundred unique planting concepts to produce what Monet considered his greatest work of art. Moreover, his planting concepts have certainly motivated more new garden design than any other garden. Monet's arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches causing the entrance of his house, and his color harmonies are just some examples of Monet's innovation that people today like to imitate.
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 conserving gadget, but to offer a tapestry of color from leaf colors, leaf texture and leaf shapes. What could be more attractive than to watch out of a window of your home at a rich foliage panorama, consisting of all tones of green from light green to dark-green, plus blue, silver, gold, bronze?
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