Developing Ambiance With Gardens
Throughout his 40-year career as a garden author and photographer, Derek Fell has actually developed numerous garden areas, many including his better half 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 areas, consisting of shade gardens, warm perennial borders, tapestry gardens including trees and shrubs, a cottage garden, herb garden, cutting garden and an ambitious water garden.
Derek worked as an expert on garden design to the White House throughout the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek designed Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', advising the nation ten ways to fight inflation.
Many garden styles by Derek Fell have been carried out without examining the site. The great late architect Frank Lloyd Wright created stunning homes for his customers, completely from pictures without the need for a website evaluation.
Fell's garden spaces have been included in papers, magazines, books and also on tv, including Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society), Country Gardens, HGTV, QVC and PBS.
Derek has authored more than sixty books and garden calendars, consisting of 550 Home Landscaping Ideas (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Garden Design (Firefly Books), The Complete Garden Preparation Handbook (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Home Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).
Suppress appeal and atmosphere are very important to cheer up your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Do not hesitate to ask Derek any garden related concerns no matter how big or little.
SOME GARDEN TYPES
Water Garden. Water is the music of nature. It can be deceived over stones, cascaded from a great height so its crashes onto rocks. It can fall in a strong sheet or as silver threads. A lovely water garden with waterfalls and stepping stones can be found in sunshine or shade. The water garden shown here is located at Cedaridge Farm. It consists of a pool for dipping, and it includes 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.
Sunny 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 focused for a specific season. Color styles can be polychromatic like a rainbow, monochromatic (for instance all white - best 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 yard course causing a focal point such as a sculpture or gazebo.
Tropical Garden. You do not need to live in a frost-free area to have a gorgeous tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have two - one is a homage to the design approach of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who created significant tropical gardens around Rio. It remains in a lightly shaded location and functions plants that are sturdy (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 season or can be disposed of like annuals at the end of the season. Our 2nd tropical area is a patio with tropical plants grown in containers.
Shade Gardens. We design two type 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 mix of the two.
Woodland Garden. Whether you have existing woodland or you need to produce a woodland from scratch, the result can be sensational. Decide whether you want deciduous trees that offer fall color or evergreens that stay green all winter, or a mix. At Cedaridge we made a 'cathedral' garden where the existing trees are cut high so the trunks look like the columns of a cathedral, and the branches arch out to satisfy overhead like the vaulted ceiling of a cathedral. Listed 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 vegetables are planted in blocks or an edible landscape where edibles are grown for ornamental result. We can supply the plan for a garden that was approved for the White house throughout the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked as a garden consultant. 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', feature in numerous calendars and books, including Derek Fell's 'Herb Gardening for Beginners.' We can also offer 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! Imagine a white gazebo framed by primarily white flowers for a wedding event in the family. Or choose from amongst a number of color consistencies, 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 home garden. But if you do, such as a guest cottage, why not wrap it in shrub roses and climbers, plus those wonderful English home garden plants like poppies, sunflowers and pinks. We also like to include plants to draw 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 toxin 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 do not need a great deal of area for a productive orchard. By making the right 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 small fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be extremely productive.
Bog Garden. Perfect for soils that tend to stay damp all season, bog gardens can be very colorful and highly creative, incorporating stepping stones and bridges to cross wet locations, and growing some of nature's most varied plant families, such as water iris, Japanese primroses, astilbe and waterlilies.
Japanese Garden. The issue with many Japanese gardens is a tendency to use pseudo-Japanese aspects such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has actually two times taken a trip to Japan, has written award-winning posts 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 create a wonderful area.
Italian Garden. Although Italian gardens can be extremely over the top, requiring high slopes to achieve the best result, like the Villa d'Este, near Rome, little spaces can achieve the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell has not just visited a few of the finest Italian Gardens, such as La Mortola on the Italian coast, and Boboli neglecting Florence, he has actually visited and photographed the Vatican Gardens.
French Official Garden. The intricate design of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, may be beyond your methods, but aspects of French garden design, such as a parterre garden, can be included in little areas.
Monet's Garden. This beautiful artist's garden north of Paris consists of more than a hundred unique planting ideas to develop what Monet considered his biggest artwork. Additionally, his planting concepts have undoubtedly influenced more new garden design than any other garden. Monet's arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches resulting in the entrance of his house, and his color harmonies are simply some examples of Monet's innovation that people today like to replicate.
Tapestry Garden (Trees & Shrubs). The great French Impressionist artist, Paul Cezanne's garden, in Provence, is made up mostly of trees and shrubs, not only as a labor conserving device, but to provide a tapestry of color from leaf colors, leaf texture and leaf shapes. What could be more enticing than to watch out of a window of your home at an abundant foliage panorama, consisting of all shades of green from light green to dark-green, plus blue, silver, gold, bronze?
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