Producing Ambiance With Gardens
Throughout his 40-year career as a garden author and photographer, Derek Fell has actually designed many garden spaces, many involving his other half Carolyn. The 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 theme locations, including shade gardens, bright perennial borders, tapestry gardens including trees and shrubs, a home garden, herb garden, cutting garden and an ambitious water garden.
Derek worked as a consultant on garden design to the White House throughout the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek developed Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', encouraging the country 10 ways to eliminate inflation.
Many garden styles by Derek Fell have been implemented without inspecting the website. The great late designer Frank Lloyd Wright designed gorgeous homes for his customers, entirely from photos without the need for a site assessment.
Fell's garden areas have been included in papers, magazines, books and also on tv, consisting of 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, including 550 Home Landscaping Ideas (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Garden Design (Firefly Books), The Total Garden Planning Manual (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Home Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).
Suppress appeal and ambiance are necessary to brighten up your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Feel free to ask Derek any garden associated concerns despite how huge or little.
SOME GARDEN TYPES
Water Garden. Water is the music of nature. It can be tricked 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 sunshine or shade. The water garden revealed here lies at Cedaridge Farm. It consists of a pool for dipping, and it includes both a collection of koi and hardy water lilies. A popular water garden design includes a koi 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, 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 selected to produce a parade of color through all the seasons, or concentrated for a specific season. Color styles can be 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 design is two parallel border with a lawn path leading to a centerpiece such as a sculpture or gazebo.
Tropical Garden. You do not need to live in a frost-free location to have a lovely tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have two - one is a tribute to the design approach of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who created significant tropical gardens around Rio. It is in a gently shaded area and features plants that are sturdy (like 'Amount & Compound' hosta) but look tropical and tender plants that hurt (like banana trees and tree ferns) that either need moving inside your home during 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 kinds of shade gardens - one where the plants supply mostly 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.
Woodland Garden. Whether you have existing forest or you need to produce a forest from scratch, the result can be spectacular. Decide whether you want deciduous trees that supply 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 cut 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. 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 veggies are planted in blocks or an edible landscape where edibles are grown for decorative effect. We can provide the prepare for a garden that was authorized for the White house throughout 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', feature in various calendars and books, including Derek Fell's 'Herb Gardening for Beginners.' We can also provide 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 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 in the family. Or pick from amongst several color consistencies, such as yellow and blue, red, pink and silver, or blue, pink and white.
Home Garden. You do not need a cottage to have a cottage garden. But if you do, such as a guest cottage, why not wrap it in shrub roses and climbers, plus those delightful English cottage garden plants like poppies, sunflowers and pinks. We also like to consist of plants to draw 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 don't need a lot of area for an efficient 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 little fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be highly efficient.
Bog Garden. Perfect for soils that tend to stay wet all season, bog gardens can be extremely colorful and extremely imaginative, incorporating stepping stones and bridges to cross wet areas, 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 tendency to use pseudo-Japanese components such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has actually twice traveled to Japan, has written award-winning short articles about Japanese garden design, and has the experience to design authentic-looking spaces in the Japanese custom using aspects of Zen or Feng Shui, or a mix of the two disciplines to produce a wonderful area.
Italian Garden. Although Italian gardens can be extremely over the top, needing steep slopes to achieve the best impact, like the Rental property d'Este, near Rome, small spaces 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 overlooking Florence, he has actually visited and photographed the Vatican Gardens.
French Formal Garden. The sophisticated style of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, may be beyond your ways, but elements of French garden design, such as a parterre garden, can be incorporated in small spaces.
Monet's Garden. This gorgeous artist's garden north of Paris consists of more than a hundred unique planting ideas to produce what Monet considered his biggest 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 entrance of his house, and his color consistencies 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 composed mostly of trees and shrubs, not just as a labor saving gadget, but to provide a tapestry of color from leaf colors, leaf texture and leaf shapes. What could be more appealing 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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