Producing Atmosphere With Gardens
During his 40-year career as a garden author and professional photographer, Derek Fell has developed numerous garden areas, many involving his wife Carolyn. The very best example of their work can be seen at their home, historical Cedaridge Farm, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, they have developed more than twenty style areas, including shade gardens, sunny perennial borders, tapestry gardens including trees and shrubs, a home garden, herb garden, cutting garden and an enthusiastic water garden.
Derek worked as an expert on garden design to the White House during the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek designed Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', encouraging the country 10 ways to eliminate inflation.
Many garden styles by Derek Fell have been implemented without inspecting the site. The great late designer Frank Lloyd Wright developed stunning homes for his clients, entirely from photographs without the need for a website examination.
Fell's garden spaces have been featured in newspapers, publications, books and also on tv, consisting of Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine 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 Concepts (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Garden Design (Firefly Books), The Total Garden Preparation Handbook (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Home Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).
Suppress appeal and atmosphere are important to illuminate your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Do not hesitate to ask Derek any garden related concerns 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 beautiful water garden with waterfalls and stepping stones can be located in sunlight or shade. The water garden revealed here is located at Cedaridge Farm. It includes a 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 Seasonal Border. This can be official or casual, square, rectangle-shaped, round and kidney shaped, in the form of an island bed or backed against an ornamental hedge, wall or fence. Plants can be picked to produce a parade of color through all the seasons, or concentrated for a particular season. Color styles can be polychromatic like a rainbow, monochromatic (for example all white - best for a wedding event), or it can feature an Impressionist color consistency, 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 seasonal garden design is two parallel border with a yard course causing a centerpiece such as a sculpture or gazebo.
Tropical Garden. You do not need to reside in a frost-free area to have a beautiful tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have 2 - one is a tribute to the design approach of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who developed dramatic tropical gardens around Rio. It is in a gently shaded area and functions plants that are durable (like 'Sum & Compound' hosta) but look tropical and tender plants that hurt (like banana trees and tree ferns) that either need moving inside during winter season or can be discarded like annuals at the end of the season. Our 2nd tropical space is an outdoor patio with tropical plants grown in containers.
Shade Gardens. We design 2 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 the two.
Woodland Garden. Whether you have existing forest or you need to create a forest 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 appear like the columns of a cathedral, and the branches arch out to meet overhead like the vaulted ceiling of a cathedral. Below, we offer 2 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 decorative result. We can supply 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 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! Picture a white gazebo framed by primarily white flowers for a 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.
Home Garden. You don't need a home to have a home garden. But if you do, such as a guest home, why not wrap it in shrub roses and climbers, plus those delightful English home garden plants like poppies, sunflowers and pinks. We also like to include 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 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 man-made but looks natural.
Orchard. You do not need a lot of area for a productive orchard. By making the best options, fruit trees can be grown in containers or espaliered against fences and walls to save area. Peaches and apples can be trained over arbors. Just a couple of plants of small fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be highly efficient.
Bog Garden. Suitable for soils that tend to stay damp all season, bog gardens can be very colorful and highly creative, integrating stepping stones and bridges to cross damp locations, and growing a few of nature's most varied plant households, such as water iris, Japanese primroses, astilbe and waterlilies.
Japanese Garden. The problem with many Japanese gardens is a tendency to use pseudo-Japanese elements such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has two times traveled to Japan, has actually written acclaimed articles about Japanese garden design, and has the experience to design authentic-looking spaces in the Japanese tradition using elements of Zen or Feng Shui, or a combination of the two disciplines to develop a magical space.
Italian Garden. Although Italian gardens can be extremely over the top, needing steep slopes to achieve the very best effect, like the Vacation home d'Este, near Rome, small areas can achieve the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell has not just went to a few of 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 Garden. The fancy style of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, might be beyond your means, but aspects 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 consists of more than a hundred special planting concepts to create what Monet considered his biggest artwork. Additionally, his planting ideas have undoubtedly influenced more new garden design than any other garden. Monet's arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches leading to the entrance of his house, and his color consistencies are simply some examples of Monet's development 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 saving gadget, but to supply 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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