Producing Ambiance With Gardens
Throughout his 40-year profession as a garden writer and photographer, Derek Fell has designed various 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, including shade gardens, warm perennial borders, tapestry gardens involving trees and shrubs, a cottage garden, herb garden, cutting garden and an enthusiastic water garden.
Derek worked as a specialist on garden design to the White House throughout the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek created Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', recommending the nation ten ways to eliminate inflation.
Many garden styles by Derek Fell have been executed without examining the website. The great late architect Frank Lloyd Wright created lovely homes for his clients, completely from photos without the need for a site examination.
Fell's garden areas have been featured in newspapers, publications, books and also on tv, consisting of Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the publication of the Royal Horticultural Society), Nation Gardens, HGTV, QVC and PBS.
Derek has actually authored more than sixty books and garden calendars, consisting of 550 Home Landscaping Ideas (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Garden Design (Firefly Books), The Total Garden Planning Handbook (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Home Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).
Suppress appeal and atmosphere are essential to cheer up your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Feel free to ask Derek any garden associated questions despite how huge 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 solid sheet or as silver threads. A gorgeous 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 includes a pool for dipping, and it includes both a collection of koi and sturdy 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.
Bright Perennial 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 instance 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 (among Monet's favorites). A popular seasonal garden design is two parallel border with a yard path leading to 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 viewpoint of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who developed dramatic tropical gardens around Rio. It remains in a gently shaded area and features plants that are sturdy (like 'Amount & Substance' hosta) but look tropical and tender plants that are tender (like banana trees and tree ferns) that either need moving indoors during winter or can be discarded like annuals at the end of the season. Our second tropical area is an outdoor patio with tropical plants grown in containers.
Shade Gardens. We design 2 sort of shade gardens - one where the plants offer primarily foliage interest (like ferns, hostas, heuchera and hakone grass), and plants that flower well (like impatiens, coleus, and lilies), or a combination of the two.
Forest Garden. Whether you have existing woodland or you need to produce a woodland from scratch, the result can be astonishing. Choose whether you want deciduous trees that offer fall color or evergreens that stay green all winter, or a mixture. At Cedaridge we made a 'cathedral' garden where the existing trees are trimmed high so the trunks appear like the columns of a cathedral, and the branches arch out to satisfy overhead like the risen 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 effect. We can offer the prepare for a garden that was authorized for the White house during the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked as a garden specialist. 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 supply 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 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 mainly white flowers for a wedding in the family. Or select from among numerous color consistencies, such as yellow and blue, red, pink and silver, or blue, pink and white.
Cottage Garden. You do not need a home to have a home 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 include plants to attract 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 create a design where the water is re-circulated along one that's manufactured but looks natural.
Orchard. You don't need a lot of space for an efficient orchard. By making the ideal 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. Just a few plants of little fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be extremely productive.
Bog Garden. Perfect for soils that tend to remain wet all season, bog gardens can be exceptionally vibrant and extremely imaginative, integrating 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 elements such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has twice taken a trip to Japan, has actually written acclaimed short articles about Japanese garden design, and has the experience to design authentic-looking areas in the Japanese custom using aspects of Zen or Feng Shui, or a combination of the two disciplines to create a wonderful space.
Italian Garden. Although Italian gardens can be highly over the top, needing steep slopes to achieve the best impact, like the Villa d'Este, near Rome, little areas can achieve the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell has not just checked out a few of the finest Italian Gardens, such as La Mortola on the Italian coast, and Boboli overlooking Florence, he has visited and photographed the Vatican Gardens.
French Official Garden. The sophisticated style of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, might be beyond your ways, but elements of French garden design, such as a parterre garden, can be integrated in little spaces.
Monet's Garden. This beautiful artist's garden north of Paris contains more than a hundred unique planting ideas to produce what Monet considered his biggest work of art. Moreover, his planting ideas have unquestionably inspired more new garden design than any other garden. Monet's arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches causing the entryway of his house, and his color harmonies are just some examples of Monet's development that people today like to emulate.
Tapestry Garden (Trees & Shrubs). The great French Impressionist artist, Paul Cezanne's garden, in Provence, is composed primarily 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 enticing than to keep an eye out of a window of your home at an abundant foliage panorama, including all shades of green from light green to dark-green, plus blue, silver, gold, bronze?
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