Developing Ambiance With Gardens

For the duration of his 40-year occupation as a planting corn seeds  back garden writer and photographer, Derek Fell has intended various yard areas, many involving his wife Carolyn. The best example of their function could be observed at their home, historic Cedaridge Farm, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, they have designed far more than twenty topic places, like shade gardens, sunny perennial borders, tapestry gardens involving trees and shrubs, a cottage backyard, herb backyard, reducing backyard and an bold drinking water garden.

Derek labored as being a advisor on yard structure on the White House during the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek intended Ford's 'Win' backyard, pursuing his 'Win Speech', advising the nation 10 strategies to combat inflation.

Several backyard garden designs by Derek Fell have already been carried out with no inspecting the site. The great late architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed wonderful properties for his clientele, totally from images with no have to have for your web site inspection.

Fell's garden areas are highlighted in newspapers, publications, books as well as on television, including Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Backyard garden (the journal on the Royal Horticultural Culture), Region Gardens, HGTV, QVC and PBS.

Derek has authored far more than sixty books and backyard garden calendars, like 550 Household Landscaping Ideas (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Back garden Design and style (Firefly Textbooks), The Complete Back garden Planning Manual (Friedman), Backyard garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Household Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).

Curb appeal and ambiance are important to brighten up your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Feel free to ask Derek any backyard garden related questions regardless of how big or small.

SOME Yard TYPES

Water Garden. H2o is the music of nature. It can be tricked over stones, cascaded from a good height so its crashes onto rocks. It can fall in a solid sheet or as silver threads. A wonderful h2o yard with waterfalls and stepping stones can be located in sunlight or shade. The drinking water garden shown here is located at Cedaridge Farm. It includes a pool for dipping, and it features both a collection of koi and hardy drinking water lilies. A popular h2o backyard garden style features a koi pool fed by a series of waterfalls, and the water re-circulated through filters to keep the h2o clear.

Sunny Perennial Border. This may be formal or informal, square, rectangular, round and kidney shaped, in the form of an island bed or backed against a decorative hedge, wall or fence. Plants could be chosen to produce a parade of color through all the seasons, or concentrated for a particular season. Color themes is often polychromatic like a rainbow, monochromatic (for case in point all white - perfect for your 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 and style is two parallel border with a grass path leading to a focal point such to be a sculpture or gazebo.

Tropical Backyard. You do not want to live in a frost-free area to have a wonderful tropical yard. At Cedaridge Farm we have two - one is a tribute to your style and design philosophy with the late Roberto Burle Marx, who built dramatic tropical gardens around Rio. It is in a lightly shaded area 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 indoors through winter or can be discarded like annuals at the end from the season. Our second tropical space is a patio with tropical plants grown in containers.

Shade Gardens. We style two kinds of shade gardens - one where the plants provide mostly foliage interest (like ferns, hostas, heuchera and hakone grass), and plants that flower well (like impatiens, coleus, and lilies), or a combination of your two.

Woodland Yard. Whether you have existing woodland or you want to create a woodland from scratch, the result might be sensational. Decide whether you want deciduous trees that provide fall color or evergreens that stay green all winter, or a mixture. At Cedaridge we made a 'cathedral' yard 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 vaulted ceiling of a cathedral. Below, we provide two additional layers of interest, at ground level and the under-story.

Vegetable Backyard. We can design you an easy-care back garden of raised beds where vegetables are planted in blocks or an edible landscape where edibles are grown for ornamental effect. We can provide the plan for your backyard garden that was approved for the White residence over the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked being a backyard consultant. Derek Fell's book, "Vegetables - How to Select, Grow & Enjoy", won a greatest book award from the Backyard Writers Association.

Herb Backyard. The herb backyard garden at Cedaridge Farm is a 'quadrant design', feature in a lot of calendars and publications, together with Derek Fell's 'Herb Gardening for Beginners.' We can also provide a cartwheel style and design or a parterre herb garden for bountiful harvests of fresh herbs. The Herb Backyard can also do double-duty as being a vegetable backyard garden.

Cutting Garden. The chopping yard 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 backyard with romantic overtones! Imagine a white gazebo framed by mostly white flowers for any wedding in the family. Or choose from among several color harmonies, such as yellow and blue, red, pink and silver, or blue, pink and white.

Cottage Yard. You don't want a cottage to have a cottage yard. But if you do, such being a guest cottage, why not wrap it in shrub roses and climbers, plus those delightful English cottage yard plants like poppies, sunflowers and pinks. We also like to include plants to attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

Stream Backyard 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 h2o iris. If you don't have a stream, but would like one, we can create a design and style where the water is re-circulated along one that's man-made but looks natural.

Orchard. You don't need a lot of space for any productive orchard. By making the right choices, fruit trees may be grown in containers or espaliered against fences and walls to save space. Peaches and apples is often trained over arbors. Just a few plants of small fruits like strawberries and raspberries may be highly productive.

Bog Back garden. Ideal for soils that tend to remain moist all season, bog gardens might be extremely colorful and highly imaginative, incorporating stepping stones and bridges to cross wet spots, and growing some of nature's most diverse plant families, such as water iris, Japanese primroses, astilbe and waterlilies.

Japanese Yard. The problem with many Japanese gardens is a tendency to use pseudo-Japanese elements such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has twice traveled to Japan, has written award-winning articles about Japanese back garden design and style, and has the experience to design authentic-looking areas in the Japanese tradition using elements of Zen or Feng Shui, or a combination in the two disciplines to create a magical space.

Italian Back garden. Although Italian gardens may be highly ostentatious, requiring steep slopes to achieve the very best effect, like the Villa d'Este, near Rome, small areas can achieve the aura of an Italian back garden. Derek Fell has not only visited some in the finest Italian Gardens, such as La Mortola on the Italian coast, and Boboli overlooking Florence, he has toured and photographed the Vatican Gardens.

French Formal Backyard. The elaborate style of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, may be beyond your means, but elements of French backyard garden style, such like a parterre backyard, can be incorporated in small spaces.

Monet's Yard. This lovely artist's garden north of Paris contains a lot more than a hundred special planting concepts to create what Monet considered his greatest perform of art. Moreover, his planting concepts have undoubtedly inspired additional new yard design than any other backyard. Monet's arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches leading into the entrance of his household, and his color harmonies are just some examples of Monet's innovation that people today like to emulate.

Tapestry Backyard (Trees & Shrubs). The nice French Impressionist artist, Paul Cezanne's yard, in Provence, is composed mostly of trees and shrubs, not only as being a labor saving device, but to provide a tapestry of color from leaf colors, leaf texture and leaf shapes. What could be much more appealing than to look out of a window of your household at a rich foliage panorama, together with all shades of green from light green to dark-green, plus blue, silver, gold, bronze?

Hillside Back garden. Even dry hillsides can make beautiful rock gardens, with paths twisting and turning in a zig-zag to create a visual adventure from the top from the slope on the bottom. They is often terraced and threaded with streams to create waterfalls and planted with some of nature's most stunning plant forms. Bridges, benches and belvedere are some from the structural elements that can add interest to a hillside.