Producing Ambiance With Gardens
Throughout his 40-year profession as a garden writer and photographer, Derek Fell has designed numerous garden areas, many involving his partner Carolyn. The very best example of their work can be seen at their home, historic Cedaridge Farm, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, they have developed more than twenty theme areas, consisting of shade gardens, warm seasonal borders, tapestry gardens including trees and shrubs, a cottage garden, herb garden, cutting garden and an enthusiastic water garden.
Derek worked as a consultant on garden design to the White House throughout the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek designed Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', encouraging the nation 10 ways to combat inflation.
Many garden designs by Derek Fell have been executed without inspecting the site. The great late designer Frank Lloyd Wright developed gorgeous homes for his customers, entirely from photographs without the need for a website assessment.
Fell's garden spaces have been featured in papers, publications, books and also on television, including Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society), Country 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 Complete Garden Preparation Manual (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Home Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).
Suppress appeal and ambiance are very important to brighten up your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Do not hesitate to ask Derek any garden related questions no matter 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 strong sheet or as silver threads. A stunning water garden with waterfalls and stepping stones can be located in sunshine or shade. The water garden shown here is located at Cedaridge Farm. It includes a swimming pool for dipping, and it includes both a collection of koi and durable 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 casual, square, rectangle-shaped, 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 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 event), or it can include 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 2 parallel border with a turf course resulting in a focal point such as a sculpture or gazebo.
Tropical Garden. You do not need to reside in a frost-free location to have a beautiful tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have two - one is a tribute to the design philosophy of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who created dramatic tropical gardens around Rio. It is in a gently shaded area and features plants that are sturdy (like 'Sum & Substance' hosta) but look tropical and tender plants that hurt (like banana trees and tree ferns) that either need moving inside during 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 kinds of shade gardens - one where the plants provide mainly 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 forest or you need to create a woodland from scratch, the outcome can be marvelous. Decide whether you want deciduous trees that offer fall color or evergreens that stay green all winter season, 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 fulfill 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 veggies are planted in blocks or an edible landscape where edibles are grown for ornamental effect. We can provide the prepare for a garden that was authorized for the White house during the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked as a garden expert. 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', function 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 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 collected from April through October.
Victorian Garden. A garden with romantic overtones! Picture a white gazebo framed by mostly white flowers for a wedding in the family. Or choose from amongst several color harmonies, such as yellow and blue, red, pink and silver, or blue, pink and white.
Home Garden. You do not need a home to have a home garden. But if you do, such as a visitor home, 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 consist of plants to bring 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 poison 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 don't need a lot of space for an efficient orchard. By making the best choices, fruit trees can be grown in containers or espaliered versus fences and walls to save space. Peaches and apples can be trained over arbors. Just a few plants of small fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be extremely efficient.
Bog Garden. Perfect for soils that tend to stay moist all season, bog gardens can be incredibly colorful and extremely creative, including stepping stones and bridges to cross damp areas, and growing a few 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 propensity to use pseudo-Japanese aspects such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has actually twice traveled to Japan, has actually composed award-winning articles about Japanese garden design, and has the experience to design authentic-looking areas in the Japanese tradition using elements of Zen or Feng Shui, or a mix of the two disciplines to develop a wonderful space.
Italian Garden. Although Italian gardens can be extremely over the top, needing high slopes to achieve the very best result, like the Villa d'Este, near Rome, small areas can achieve the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell has not only visited some of the finest Italian Gardens, such as La Mortola on the Italian coast, and Boboli neglecting Florence, he has toured and photographed the Vatican Gardens.
French Official Garden. The sophisticated style of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, might be beyond your ways, but aspects of French garden design, such as a parterre garden, can be integrated in small spaces.
Monet's Garden. This lovely artist's garden north of Paris consists of more than a hundred unique planting concepts to produce what Monet considered his biggest work of art. Moreover, his planting ideas have undoubtedly influenced more new garden design than any other garden. Monet's arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches causing the entrance of his house, and his color consistencies are just some examples of Monet's development that people today like to imitate.
Tapestry Garden (Trees & Shrubs). The great French Impressionist artist, Paul Cezanne's garden, in Provence, is composed mainly of trees and shrubs, not only as a labor saving gadget, but to offer a tapestry of color from leaf colors, leaf texture and leaf shapes. What could be more attractive than to watch out of a window of your home at a rich foliage panorama, including all tones of green from light green to dark-green, plus blue, silver, gold, bronze?
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