In the course of his 40-year profession as a garden writer and photographer, Derek Fell has made many garden spaces, a lot of involving his wife Carolyn. The most effective instance of their work can be observed at their home, historic Cedaridge Farm, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, they have made extra than twenty theme places, like shade gardens, sunny perennial borders, tapestry gardens involving trees and shrubs, a cottage garden, herb garden, cutting garden and an ambitious water garden.
Garden Beauty worked as a consultant on garden design and style to the White Property for the duration of the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek designed Ford’s ‘Win’ garden, following his ‘Win Speech’, advising the nation ten methods to fight inflation.
A lot of garden styles by Derek Fell have been implemented devoid of inspecting the website. The excellent late architect Frank Lloyd Wright developed stunning homes for his clients, completely from photographs without having the require for a web site inspection.
Fell’s garden spaces have been featured in newspapers, magazines, books and also on tv, like Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society), Nation Gardens, HGTV, QVC and PBS.
Derek has authored far more than sixty books and garden calendars, which includes 550 Dwelling Landscaping Suggestions (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Garden Design and style (Firefly Books), The Complete Garden Planning Manual (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Residence Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).
Curb appeal and ambiance are vital to brighten up your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Feel free to ask Derek any garden associated concerns regardless of how big or compact.
SOME GARDEN Sorts
Water Garden. Water is the music of nature. It can be tricked more than stones, cascaded from a excellent height so its crashes onto rocks. It can fall in a solid sheet or as silver threads. A attractive water garden with waterfalls and stepping stones can be positioned in sunlight or shade. The water garden shown here is situated at Cedaridge Farm. It incorporates a pool for dipping, and it attributes each a collection of koi and hardy water lilies. A preferred water garden design and style attributes a koi pool fed by a series of waterfalls, and the water re-circulated via filters to maintain the water clear.
Sunny Perennial Border. This can 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 can be selected to create a parade of color via all the seasons, or concentrated for a distinct season. Colour themes can be polychromatic like a rainbow, monochromatic (for example all white – ideal for a wedding), or it can function 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 preferred perennial garden design is two parallel border with a grass path major to a focal point such as a sculpture or gazebo.
Tropical Garden. You do not need to have to live in a frost-cost-free region to have a lovely tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have two – one particular is a tribute to the design philosophy of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who created dramatic tropical gardens around Rio. It is in a lightly shaded location and capabilities plants that are hardy (like ‘Sum & Substance’ hosta) but appear 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 of the season. Our second tropical space is a patio with tropical plants grown in containers.
Shade Gardens. We design two sorts of shade gardens – one particular exactly where the plants provide largely foliage interest (like ferns, hostas, heuchera and hakone grass), and plants that flower effectively (like impatiens, coleus, and lilies), or a mixture of the two.
Woodland Garden. Irrespective of whether you have current woodland or you want to build a woodland from scratch, the outcome can be sensational. Determine whether or not you want deciduous trees that present fall colour or evergreens that keep green all winter, or a mixture. At Cedaridge we produced a ‘cathedral’ garden exactly where the current trees are trimmed higher 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. Beneath, we offer two much more layers of interest, at ground level and the under-story.
Vegetable Garden. We can design and style you an uncomplicated-care garden of raised beds where vegetables are planted in blocks or an edible landscape exactly where edibles are grown for ornamental effect. We can provide the program for a garden that was approved for the White home through the Ford Administration exactly where Derek Fell worked as a garden consultant. Derek Fell’s book, “Vegetables – How to Choose, Grow & Get pleasure from”, won a best book award from the Garden Writers Association.