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Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts
A Dinner for a Friend
The table setting for three.
Since we were three for dinner, the table setting fell
together effortlessly. www.countrygardenroses.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=PIERRE-DE-RONSARDAll it took
were flowers from the garden, a few accessories that we had on hand, a tablecloth in my Petite Fleur print and
some Marie Daage dinnerware.
The Pierre de Ronsard Roses, one of my favorites.
In the Beginning
I love magazines and the stories they tell. Beautiful spaces all so wonderfully turned out. However, the finished project is only part of the story. I always find the process of how things were created so interesting, this is the process of my own garden. From grim to glorious in three months.
When I first saw the yard I was instantly inspired and knew exactly how it was going to look when I got done with it. Little did I know what was ahead. I knew it wouldn’t take long and once it started, it didn’t.
The summer of ’06 when we moved in, there were still a cast of workmen running around banging and sawing day and night. It wasn’t until April ’07, almost two years after buying the property that things got moving. Here is the evolution.
When I first saw the yard I was instantly inspired and knew exactly how it was going to look when I got done with it. Little did I know what was ahead. I knew it wouldn’t take long and once it started, it didn’t.
The summer of ’06 when we moved in, there were still a cast of workmen running around banging and sawing day and night. It wasn’t until April ’07, almost two years after buying the property that things got moving. Here is the evolution.
The winter of my discontent '05/'06
Summer '06, the neighbors car completes the setting.
Spring '07 that's thirteen loads of top soil.
At last, some progress, the beds are installed.
The fence starts to go up.
The shed arrives.
The sod goes down.
At last, the dream is real.
The Joys of Country Living
Sarah Gray Miller and the editors of Country Living have made my month. I am ecstatic to have my garden featured in their redesign launch issue of the magazine. The May issue features six pages of tips, how-to and other relevant information that I have learned in creating a chic sustainable garden that doesn’t require six gardeners to maintain. Included in the scheme is delicious home grown organic food almost year around. All in a tiny space that was once a dumpy neglected patch when I bought the place.
So here it is, after some loving care, thirteen truck loads of new top soil, a fence, raised beds from Oregon, sod and a customized prefab shed.
So here it is, after some loving care, thirteen truck loads of new top soil, a fence, raised beds from Oregon, sod and a customized prefab shed.
Spring has Sprung
There still may be much snow on the ground here, but in my gardeners mind it has been Spring since the first catalog arrived in mid December. I have already spent way too many hours with graphpaper and pencils in one hand and catalogs in the other. 
My small garden attempts to be a four season garden. With proper planning, I have found that even in the rigorous winter weather of the Northeast there is always a selection of produce to be harvested. I plant a spectrum of seasonal varieties, the tenderest spring lettuces to the most winter hardy leeks, brussel sprouts and maches, along with herbs, flowers, and various fruit trees and plants that will produce over a full year.
This year I am mad for Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. My order goes on for over a page, I was very influenced by the scope of varieties, the descriptions and the beautiful photography. Harris Seed is my choice for garden suppiles and products. Turtle Tree Seed is a local organic seed company that is one of the few to offer nettle seeds. More on the importance of nettles this summer.
This year I am mad for Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. My order goes on for over a page, I was very influenced by the scope of varieties, the descriptions and the beautiful photography. Harris Seed is my choice for garden suppiles and products. Turtle Tree Seed is a local organic seed company that is one of the few to offer nettle seeds. More on the importance of nettles this summer.
An edited selection of some of my favorite sources.
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