Country Gardens

    A Plant Collector's Garden cont.

photos top row: detail view of upper border at woodland entrance and looking back to house through woods from public road;
row 2: detail of island with willows and wood sculpture, view towards drive island from barn area;
row 3: view towards house from sunny meadow, close-up view of perennial and vegetable garden.
rows 4 & 5: plant details

Each garden area required special soil preparation, removing buried boulders, building stone retaining walls, protecting the brook edge from storm waters, bridges to cross the brook at various points, gravel mulching in the Rock Garden and annual mulching elsewhere, edging annually at lawn areas, pruning and replacing as well as adding shrubs, small trees, conifers, bulbs and perennials over a twenty year period. Finding the right plant for the right place and vice versa was both the ongoing challenge and pleasure.

Old Farmstead | Working Farm | Converted Barn |
Steep Hillside Garden | Large Country Garden |