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<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-74895647682113822592013-01-23T23:14:00.000-05:002013-01-24T09:43:36.020-05:00Early burn, stone wall redo, resilienceI burned the garden last weekend. With the mild winter, I thought the plants were waking far, far too early, so I burned before too much growth emerged. I usually do this early to late March. This was the earliest burn ever.<br />
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This post feels like self-flagellation. I thought several times about whether or not to show some of these photos. But here they are, in all their unpleasantness, the garden in half-burned disarray.<br />
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In another week or two the view will be much better. Empty, at least. The plants that didn't burn I'll chop down next weekend.<br />
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We also finished much of the work reconstructing the bed for the new pool; the way forward seems clear.<br />
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First, we rebuilt the low stone wall around the pool area, making it rectangular rather than curved. It now acts as a visual extension of the existing stone wall around the base of the house, relating the new pool surroundings to the house--using visually connecting rectangles as shown below. The paver path on the left is temporary; I just threw them down so I could walk across the mud. That's work for another day.<br />
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Another view below, showing how the pool area links to the house and its argillite stone chimney. <br />
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Details below show how the two stone wall segments look together ...<br />
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And three more views of the rectangular structure holding the pool ...<br />
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From a distance, the pool area almost disappears. When closely planted, as I intend, it will be private, almost invisible. This view is from a partially burned center area of the garden. Yes, ugly.<br />
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Below is an existing path. I may use something similar for the approach to the pool area. I want it to be narrow, so visitors enter one at a time. But this is only one option.<br />
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I burned this area too. Miscanthus giganteus (left) does not burn even when extremely dry. Some of the smaller Miscanthus behind burned incompletely. Too much moisture.<br />
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My preference would be to have waited another month or two, so I'd have some garden left to see. But spring seemed to be coming much too early.<br />
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I jumped the gun. I'd hoped for cold weather and I got it. It's 9 degrees tonight.<br />
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I think I should have waited to burn ... but the garden is resilient.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Poetry</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I, too, dislike
it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading it,
however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it after all, a
place for the genuine.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hands that
can grasp, eyes</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that can
dilate, hair that can rise</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if it must,
these things are important not because a</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>high-sounding
interpretation can be put upon them but because they are</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>useful. When
they become so derivative as to become unintelligible,</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the same
thing may be said for all of us, that we</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>do not
admire what</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we cannot
understand: the bat</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>holding
on upside down or in quest of something to</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eat, elephants
pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf under</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a tree, the
immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a flea, the base-</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ball fan,
the statistician --</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nor is it
valid</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
discriminate against 'business documents and school-books';</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all these
phenomena are important. One must make a distinction</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>however: when
dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry,</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nor till
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'literalists
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>insolence
and triviality and can present</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for inspection,
'imaginary gardens with real toads in them,' shall we have</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it. In the
meantime, if you demand on the one hand,</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all its
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that which is
on the other hand</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>genuine,
you are interested in poetry.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Marianne Moore</div>
James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-91303434258227847812013-01-17T10:30:00.001-05:002013-01-17T10:51:17.170-05:00Ready for fire, but ice insteadJust reread Tom Stuart-Smith's <i>The Barn Garden</i> about his own garden in Hertfordshire--an intriguing book, a beautiful book, with several surprises. I mention it because Tom, in passing, tells of the damage done to perennials and grasses by voles one mild winter, damage that prompted him to start cutting back many plants much earlier than usual. That struck a resonant cord. Last spring I found the roots of many plants in the garden had been eaten, leaving plants dead or severely damaged. I really regret the loss of a large Baptisia australis that had several years of growth, and I even noticed serious damage to several grasses.<br />
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We're now having a second mild winter so I want to start cutting and burning early. Unfortunately, we've had icy rain and continuing wet. So instead of clearing the garden, I took a few photos of the ice cover yesterday morning. Growth is thin following last fall's hurricane, but it's astonishing what visual delights remain if you have a weather surprise.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Small pond brimming full with rain</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Salix alba 'Britzensis' being trained as a pollarded specimen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three large Salix sachalinensis 'Sekka' covered in ice behind grasses and bedraggled Filipendula remains</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marc Rosenquist's bronze amid the ruins</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View across the desolation toward the house and new reflecting pool</td></tr>
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And speaking of the reflecting pool, I find being away for a week has helped me put the many conflicting comments I've solicited in perspective. In my loose, serendipitous garden, so reliant on chance as much as planning, the structural detailing and geometry of the pool area simply do not matter that much in the larger scheme of things (not saying they don't matter at all). I still want to "get it right" (whatever form that takes), but the garden is about much more than this little piece. And I have other fish to fry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Betula nigra 'Heritage' (River birch) beside the long garden walk</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Salix sachalinensis 'Sekka' pruned high to show sculptural trunks</td></tr>
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This willow has a striking characteristic. When pruned, some stems develop a flattened, fasciated form much desirable among flower arrangers, very beautiful detailing. Here are two close-up views taken last week on my mobile phone.<br />
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Here again is the River birch, which is just beginning to develop the white, peeling bark so distinctive of this cultivar--another ornament of winter.</div>
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<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-79328000667610333782013-01-10T09:27:00.002-05:002013-01-11T07:31:07.560-05:00Rectilinear ripples (thanks, Calvin)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Another round of navel gazing ...<br />
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In response to many helpful comments on my problematic reflecting pool
design, I'm working on a solution suggested by Jill Nooney (bedrockgardens.org), a New
Hampshire garden designer, in a comment on a recent post. She asked, "Is
there any structure within sight that would reinforce an orthogonal
theme"? That started me thinking about rectangles and squares, and how I
could use existing geometry at the site to integrate the square pool
into a rambling garden full of curves.<br />
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One of the notable features of my garden is the use of local stone, a
very hard sedimentary stone called argillite. It is colored a dark blue-black, black, and many tones of grayish brown, is rather glass-like,
and tends to shatter when hit hard or cut. It also makes a ringing sound
when struck by another stone. This phenomenon is so notable argillite
was called "blue jingle" and "blue jingler" in past times. I have plenty of argillite, piled into long stone rows by the people who farmed this land in the nineteenth century. I'm not sure what kind of farming they did, but there is evidence they had orchards, probably peach orchards. This was a large peach growing area back then, railroads were built to carry the produce to New York City, but a blight killed all the orchards, ending a thriving industry.<br />
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At present there are two prominent and highly visible uses of
argillite in the Garden at Federal Twist: a rectilinear dry-laid stone
wall (see below) around the base of the raised hillock on which the house
sits--effectively a plinth for the house--and a large, tall chimney (above) that
rises probably ten feet above the roof peak, topped by an unusual
curved, wing-like steel ornament, which is original to the 1965 house, the point being that the ornament draws attention to the chimney, making it more prominent than it would otherwise be.<br />
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Looking at the new pool area with the house in view (below) you can see how the chimney, the house (also a rectangle, though not of stone) and the "plinth" stone wall create a multilevel orthogonal construct, defining three descending parallel plains in the abstract. <br />
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Now imagine a similar low stone wall of argillite to support the gravel bed, built parallel to and located four or five feet out from the existing stone wall. There you have it, an orthogonal base for the new reflecting pool, made of the same stone as the existing wall and house chimney. The rectilinearity, similar materials, colors and textures of the chimney, the house, the plinth wall, and the new gravel containment wall will reinforce each other and create a multilevel series of rectangular structures that provides a solid grounding for the square reflecting pool.<br />
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Last weekend we brought in a huge amount of argillite (below) to support the gravel bed. Unfortunately, I had it laid in curves. So imagine this stone relaid in straight lines to form a low rectangular support wall around the gravel bed. Parts of the new wall, the end at the left in the photo below, for example, need to be well laid in a neat pattern, emulating the existing wall behind, so they look essentially the same and visually reinforce each other.<br />
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This new low wall will form a rectangle, or group of intersecting rectangles, extending out from the point at which the two parts of the plinth wall meet. No, I don't intend to move the pool, but I do want to adjust the gravel bed to shape it into rectangles and more closely align it with the pool. I plan to move out the concrete pavers, to level the surface of the gravel bed, and to work out a way to add planting pockets at the edges of the new low stone wall, creating small, better drained planting areas, and increasing my options for close planting around the pool area.<br />
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Below is a distant view of the pool area, showing the chimney, house, and plinth wall last spring after I burned and cut the garden. The new rectangular structure supporting the reflecting pool will appear to be an extension of the house and its associated geometries. I think it shows this "orthogonal design approach" may be the solution I'm seeking.<br />
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Just a reminder (below) of what you actually see from this distance earlier in the fall.<br />
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<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-39922554923502359792013-01-09T10:59:00.000-05:002013-01-09T12:47:31.120-05:00Moving to WordPress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After six years with Blogger, I'm having serious technical problems and I'm no techie. Perhaps Blogger bogs down after several years of use?<br />
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I've decided to move View from Federal Twist to WordPress.<br />
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I'll provide a new address within the next few weeks. Meanwhile, posts will continue here, and the old blog will remain accessible.<br />
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Now for some diversion:<br />
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I placed a jar in Tennessee,
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And round it was, upon a hill.
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It made the slovenly wilderness
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The wilderness rose up to it,
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And sprawled around, no longer wild.
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It took dominion every where.
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The jar was gray and bare.
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It did not give of bird or bush,
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Like nothing else in Tennessee.
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From Wikipedia: 'This famous, much-anthologized poem succinctly accommodates a
remarkable number of different and plausible interpretations ... Helen Vendler ... asserts that the
poem is incomprehensible except as understood as a commentary on Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn",
alluding to it as a way of discussing the predicament of the American
artist, "who cannot feel confidently the possessor, as Keats felt, of
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Shall he use language imported from Europe ("of a port in air", "to
give of"), or "plain American that cats and dogs can read" (as Marianne Moore put it), like "The jar was round upon the ground"?<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Vendler.2C_p._45_5-1"></sup> [He vows] "to stop imitating Keats and seek a native American language that will not take the wild out of the wilderness."'</div>
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Has American gardening also been in the same predicament? Should we continue to use models "imported from Europe" (oh, how many times have I read that Americans want English gardens!), or "seek a native American [garden] that will not take the wild out of the wilderness"? </div>
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Noel Kingsbury and many others have noted that many American gardens are surrounded by woodlands, and this is one distinguishing characteristic.</div>
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I don't mean to be abstruse (though I'm doing just that) but when I stumbled upon Helen Vendler's comments on this old favorite poem, I was struck by a parallel concern in American gardening.</div>
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James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-35592060112794183382013-01-04T19:29:00.000-05:002013-01-04T19:29:10.679-05:00SnowThe garden seems to be evaporating before my eyes; the very substance of
the grasses and herbaceous perennials, most of what's left, seems thinner, more fragile, week by
week. As the garden reveals more and more of its underlying structure--largely invisible in the high season of growth--this is a good time to take stock, to look for underlying problems, if "problems" is the right word. Perhaps better to think of opportunities, to evaluate, to fine tune.<br />
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So I'll continue to mull over the newest part of the garden--the reflecting pool, which does indeed present a "challenge." It doesn't seem to fit where I put it!<br />
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Snow last weekend, four inches of light fluff, just enough to cover the garden in a clean sheet, showed the pool in a new way, laid out in splendid
isolation from its previously messy environment. In snow, the pool fits better, but only temporarily. <br />
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Judy Mann, a friend, was visiting and
took these photos in the morning light while I was away at the gym (one
of my few disciplines in life). As I look at them, they confirm, but by contrast, the approach I've decided to take to better integrate the pool into the garden.<br />
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Here (above and below) the snow erases the gravel bed, the blue stone coping around the water, other extraneous details. Truth be told I'm tempted to try for a similar effect without the snow, to take a minimal approach, though that would be very
difficult since, without great expense, I can't level the surrounding area to
make an ample, smooth surface for the pool to rest in luxurious isolation. <br />
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So of the two possible directions I could take in this part of the garden--toward openness, cleanness, simplicity, or toward enclosure, height, romantic fuzziness--I take the latter, which can be implemented incrementally, making it easier to manage cost. <br />
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And to be honest, a minimal landscape feature would likely be out of character with the blousy naturalism of the rest of the garden. So perhaps my pocketbook and my aesthetics agree.<br />
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Below you can see the snowy outline of concrete pavers I've laid out in a trial pattern. I like this curve and the way it frames one side of the pool. The curve is an encompassing, welcoming gesture ...<br />
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... that focuses attention on the pool and on the garden beyond ... and begins a circular pattern that will be completed by the new plantings I plan around the pool area. <br />
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The key will be in the planting ... shrub spires, box balls, tall perennials like Joe Pye Weed and Inula, urn-shaped Miscanthus ... all forming diaphanous, three-dimensional screens that make the pool area like a circular room, a room with transparent walls through which you can catch glimpses in and out, as described in the previous <a href="http://www.federaltwist.blogspot.com/2012/12/garden-diary-reflections.html" target="_blank">post</a>. <br />
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The Miscanthus giganteus, standing high and quite distant from the pool, illustrates how the interplay of vertical and horizontal will work. As with the tall, ragged Miscanthus and the flat, clean-edged pool, my plan to juxtapose verticals of Thuja occidentalis and grassy spires with the flat, two-dimensionality of the pool will create a sense of a secret place nestled amid dense plantings. The interplay of circular patterns, square pool, height, depth, sharp edges and soft, round shapes will make a pleasant place for contemplating reflections in the pool and appreciating the forms and colors of the surrounding plants.<br />
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Barring some brief, miraculous frosty
transmogrification, the garden is gone for the year. I'm ready to burn what I can and cut the
rest. Winter's barely here and I want to move on. <br />
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I have projects, changes to make, things to do. I was recently notified, you see, that the garden will be on the Garden Conservancy Open Days next year. Nothing like a deadline for motivation. Right now, unfortunately, this feels like work. Where's that delight in gentle, impulsive garden making? I want play and pleasure--not work. For years toiling in the corporate coal mines I kept as my mantra (or complaint) Robert Frost's words in Two Tramps in Mud Time:<br />
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It seems I never accomplished that goal, so as next best, I've semiretired to garden play, or so I thought. Could it be the competitive instinct is inborn, so deeply ingrained, I can't stop it? So to prepare for next summer, I've started on a series of changes, "improvements" as they were fond of calling them in 18th century English landscape culture, more I'm sure than I'll have time or money for. Down the road, I hope I'll be able to remember this is play too.<br />
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The first project is this one ...<br />
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We just finished the new reflecting pool. Much work remains--building a low stone retaining wall for the gravel bed, deciding what pattern to use for the paving, entirely replanting the area around the pool. I want a touch of formality, probably mostly shaped box wood and Thuja spires, contrasting with the wildness and informality, especially here near the house and pool, where straight lines and right angles lend a greater sense of geometric order.<br />
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Hidden under the bank going up to the house, I hardly see this new pool area from above. But from down in the garden, it's been an annoyance. The garden is young--barely seven years--and I just hadn't had time to deal with it. I planted a Salix 'Hakuro-nishiki', which grew fast and helped cover up the inattention, but it was time to fix this. <br />
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My initial thought was to create a simple path and paved area, and new plantings, to add strolling options and a more engaging experience in the garden. Then it occurred to me I could make room to add a reflecting pool. (I've been exceedingly happy with the new pool in the small Brooklyn garden, so the thought of adding a reflective element at Federal Twist caught my interest.) The ideas started morphing and I realized I could also take this opportunity to remove a gravel path I've always disliked, reuse the gravel in the new pool area, and turn the unsuccessful path into a new planting area, even mound new soil on the path, creating a kind of irregular berm, with the hope the improvement in drainage will allow me to grow some plants that don't thrive in heavy wetness.<br />
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Once the pool was finished, however, I wasn't satisfied. I wish it were larger, but topography prevents that. Much more importantly, it doesn't look like it belongs. So instead of using this new area as open negative space, which I had planned to do, I'll enclose and partially hide the pool within close plantings of shrubs, grasses and perennials. It can be glimpsed through the plantings, but will remain an enticing, seemingly out-of-reach mirage from many parts of the garden. The photo below shows something of the veiled, partial glimpses I'd like to create.<br />
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I made these mark-ups with a simple program called Skitch to better envision how massing might work to make the reflecting pool a private area for contemplation. First, the view from the south, shown below. Small paths will allow entry from the left, the right, and the back. The green shapes may be shrubs such as box wood and spires of Thuja occidentalis (Arborvitae), which does very well in my wet soil, and is an extraordinarily beautiful, native evergreen in spite of what you might think! The yellows and blues show how various mounding and vertical grasses and perennials might be used to create privacy and screen views into and out of the area--and to hide the unsightly deer exclusion fence at the back (another problem solved).<br />
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Below is a view from the opposite (north) side. Another aspect of the new plantings--apart from screening and visual pleasure they can give--is controlling reflections in the pool. To some extent I can experiment by moving plants around in containers, but intuition will certainly play an important role. I can already see that distant trees will probably dominate the reflected view, and am pleased with that. Again, apart from the green lines, which indicate Thuja and box, the other colors represent general concepts for massing of grasses and perennials, and perhaps other shrubs such as Lindera angustifolia (if I can find it), viburnums, or coppiced willows (I'm particularly interested in finding Rosemary willow, Salix <span class="st">elaeagnos 'Angustifolia'</span>.)<br />
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This final view shows the area from behind the path I'm removing. This will become a messy, sprawling (read "naturalistic") berm planted with shrubs and perennials, giving some added height. Though I will order a few "prize" plants from remote sources, I need large, well established specimens from local nurseries to get a finished effect in time for next summer. That means using what's available locally and remaining open to improvisation.<br />
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<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-54488702460323687562012-12-14T22:06:00.000-05:002012-12-19T14:31:52.619-05:00Celebration!I woke to a frosty morning, an icy crust on the garden, a low brilliant sun lighting the mess that remains from Hurricane Sandy, the worst storm in local recorded history, and a heavy wet snow that fell a few days after. I thought the garden was at an end, but these photos give the lie to that. Instead, they celebrate the strong, intricate structure of the grasses and perennials at Federal Twist. The frost and light create a delicate, ephemeral landscape.<br />
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I rarely take a "how to" approach to blog posts, but it may be helpful to see how some plants weathered the storms and remain to give pleasure, so I'll name the survivors below. The empty spaces usually incidate plants there earlier in the season didn't last through the storms. I'll name some of them too, though I certainly don't suggest you avoid them.<br />
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The Hydrangea quercifolia in the next three photos turned very late, leaving this dark wine color.<br />
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The boxwood and Thuja evergreens add more than just color interest in
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The large empty area is home to a community of Filipendula rubra 'Venusta', a source of pleasure from late spring, usually well into winter. It's weight even took down patches of Joe Pye Weed, as well as asters and sanguisorbas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vernonia, Panicum 'Dallas Blues', Silphium terebenthinaceum, Pycnantheum muticum, Miscanthus 'Silberfeder' across the back, Inula racemosa 'Sonnenspeer', Aster tartaricus in front</td></tr>
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Time: about 8:30 in the morning. James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-62637355618676475442012-12-05T08:19:00.000-05:002012-12-05T19:24:58.288-05:00Second lifeWinds blew, trees slammed to earth ... an interlude ... then wet snow! <br />
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First Hurricane Sandy plowed through, stripping most foliage from the garden and wiping away the south border of trees. Then unexpected snow fell last week, heavy and wet, only about four inches, flattening most of the grasses. I thought the garden was over for the year. But the snow melted quickly, and the moisture saturating the plant tissues deepened the colors of the the rebounding grass, even on a foggy Sunday morning, giving them an inner glow.<br />
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The bright grasses contrasted with the foggy greens and grays of the background woods, warmth against coolness, exuberant detail against muted vagueness.<br />
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So I quickly took some photos, coordinated the work of my garden helpers, and left for the gym. As I drove down Federal Twist Road toward the Delaware, I felt elated. It's difficult to separate things in my life from things in the garden, but I had a sense of all the pieces fitting together. Like an epiphany. <br />
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A foggy morning (admittedly a pretty sight), a quick walk through the garden, a new paving, pool and planting started, and some mysterious state of mind or confluence of events had set me off on a journey of ... what? Grace and gratitude? Not really, I was not to put into words what I was thinking or feeling ... just say, my state of being. Two weekends back we visited Phil's mother, who is 92, in a Boston nursing home. We took her to the Museum of Fine Arts, which she enjoyed immensely. Next weekend, we're off to Mississippi to visit my sister, who isn't well ... Many things to be sad about. But sadness wasn't the tenor of this day.<br />
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Only in retrospect was I fortunate enough to recall the discussion of garden as epiphany in David E. Cooper's small <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Gardens-David-E-Cooper/dp/019923888X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354712839&sr=1-1&keywords=a+philosophy+of+gardens" target="_blank">book</a> <i>A Philosophy of Gardens</i>:<br />
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<i>"Pope's famous lines, in his Epistle to the Earl of Burlington, on 'the genius of the place', for example, surely evoke a conception of The Garden as an epiphany. For Pope, 'the genius of the place' does not refer, as it does for many later writers, to the ambiance or natural setting of a garden: rather, it is that which 'Now breaks, or now directs, the intending lines' and 'Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs' (Pope 1994: 81 f.). Palpable, here is a sense of The Garden as both a response to and an exemplification of something beyond the control and invention of human beings."</i><br />
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"Something beyond the control and invention of human beings." I'm not a religious man, rather agnostic in the extreme, opposed to most organized religion. But I do make room for that.<br />
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Certainly the thought of destruction, of the end of things, is suggested by these images.<br />
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But equally so, the beauty of the disintegrating garden: color, form, the narrative of living and dying, knowing that without this nothing returns in spring.<br />
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"Something beyond the control and invention of human beings." Chance storms, accidents, leave room for moments of fleeting beauty, unanticipated emotion, surprise, mystery. <br />
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Emotional response to these scenes isn't something that I will. Is it nostalgia, a desire to recreate or return to a memory, to a lost or half-forgotten landscape, as <a href="http://landscapeofmeaning.blogspot.com/2012/11/garden-designers-roundtable-memory-and.html" target="_blank">Thomas Rainer</a> has proposed? To some early memory in this life, to a culturally defined preference for open spaces with areas for hiding? Like children, do we delight in the sparkle of a colored rock among the gray, imagining gems, rubies, sapphires, then recreate that delight as adults, even with colored sticks and grass suffused with light?<br />
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So to Wikipedia for word origin: "The term <i><b>nostalgia</b></i> describes a sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The word is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of <i><span lang="grc">νόστος</span> (nóstos)</i>, meaning 'homecoming', a Homeric word, and <i><span lang="grc">ἄλγος</span> (álgos)</i>, meaning 'pain, ache'."<br />
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So "homecoming." I feel that in the garden; have felt it for many years ... a place to contemplate, to remember. To ache for something past. And to seek what may never have been known. <br />
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"Something beyond the control and invention of human beings." A place to create, to participate in a kind of mystery, perhaps an unforeseen gift.<br />
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Perhaps one should pray for guidance, even if a severe agnostic, before making a design decision. Chance plays a part in all decisions and when I put in this path, it was the wrong decision. So now it's coming out to be replaced by new plantings. And in its place a major renovation ...<br />
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... a new area, the gravel base now being laid, for a reflecting pool, shallow, just to catch the light and sky, and a paved surface - more open space, more void - all with curving borders and narrow, winding paths. Here's a primative sketch (I can't draw). <br />
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The planting will be thick, with glimpses in to the straight stone wall and to the water. The void, like silence in music, may make the plantings sing.<br />
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Surrounding this may be a field of Miscanthus. Of course there will be more, but at this time of year Miscanthus en masse is amazing in our climate. Ethereal. A field of Miscanthus alone could make you cry out.<br />
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Though Panicum, in this case 'Dallas Blues' (below), may win for color.<br />
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Keeping Miscanthus in mind, and looking toward the new sky where the large trees fell so ungracefully a month ago, I can see three or four Miscanthus giganteus would make notable additions to the hedgerow I'm planning at the far end of the path below - giving a satisfying visual conclusion to the now empty southern end of the garden. They might open better views into the woods by giving the eye something to look through, and complete the "bowl" of the garden, so clearly visible in autumn.<br />
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You get the drift? Layers of Miscanthus, up the hill, across the field.<br />
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And possibly for accent, a rare native shrub, Zenobia pulverulenta, a dusty, glaucous green through spring and summer, and in magnificent plumage in early December.<br />
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And more of these Inula racemosa 'Sonnenspeer', of course. They seed like crazy, and I still don't have enough.<br />
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So as we prepare to leave for Mississippi, I make farewell gestures to the garden, now fading fast as the toughest part of winter approaches. I'll be visiting the place of my childhood, remembering, searching out the empty spaces ... and thinking about more changes in the garden.<br />
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<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-29878282262871108172012-11-28T09:22:00.001-05:002012-11-28T09:24:37.148-05:00Just turning from ...Just turning from Chanticleer's Tea Cup Garden, a small gem-like courtyard behind the smaller of two residences at this amazing garden outside Philadelphia ... <br />
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... I took this shot of an oak and the space above the Tennis Court Garden, which is at a lower level and not visible. The low fall sunlight is the main subject here, but notice the contrast of the large, bold foliage in the foreground with the finer foliage in the distance, the spires of Arundo donax just visible in the mid-distance and the depth they both give to the image, the colors in the multitude of ground cover plants beneath the oak.<br />
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But details aside, is this magic?James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-74370694513785796692012-11-18T10:35:00.000-05:002012-11-24T08:48:22.572-05:00Hurricane, change<div style="text-align: center;">
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A vast hurricane passed through. Like we've never seen before.<br />
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I was a little anxious when I got Marc's phone photos of the fallen trees. I couldn't really see the extent of the damage Sandy (what an innocuous name) had done. Only a few trees were down in the garden, but this is what I didn't know - just outside the deer exclusion fence, thirteen huge White Pines, easily 70 feet tall - a wall of trees that had formed a dark green border along the long south side of the garden - were all laid out flat on the ground, aligned in rows, like a low wall, like a bunker. I suspected some of the pines were down, but I couldn't really tell from the photos.<br />
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When I finally got out to the house, almost two weeks after the storm, I found massive destruction. Much of the green wall of forest that defined the southern border of the garden is gone, and in its place is an ugly mess of giant logs and debris, more than a little reminiscent of a pile up of rail cars after a train wreck. Since arriving on the scene, as each day passes, it's clear the remaining verticals and diagonals, trees limbs, smaller leaning trees, airborne roots, contribute greatly to the visual chaos. They must be cut. The mess must be manicured, groomed. Cleaned up, the line of logs will be much easier to accommodate.<br />
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Thinking about garden aesthetics, of course I want to screen this from view, but the processes of nature, and effects of changing climate, make this artifact of the storm a useful lesson, and in a broader sense, give visibility to a more universal theme of creation and dissolution. So total invisibility isn't the goal.<br />
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The fallen behemoths do put my idea of garden to the test. I've often said this is an experimental garden, one to match plants to a difficult environment, to a changing climate, and to the effects of such changes. Now I have a challenging adaptation to make. Without the tall evergreens, that ragged, bare line of forest lets the mass of the garden dissipate into the fractured woods, drift away through the competing interstices of the trees and the blank sky. It's life leaks out without a skin.<br />
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That green wall of tall White pines contained the garden, set off its wildness, amplified its colors, textures, shapes and forms. Gave it context. Below you can see, without a boundary, the garden vanishes into the surrounding woods.<br />
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I need a replacement border, a hedgerow, something better that that tall line of pines, a boundary that defines the garden yet lets in ample light. This weekend, I found four large river birches on sale, and they will go in today. In spring, I'll add more plants, possibly willows to coppice, large grasses, other plants adapted to wet soil, vines if I can get them to grow in the stony ground. Virginia creeper on the long log barrier might be an attractive addition, and give great color in fall. But the fallen trees will remain. (They are on state-owned land, so I can't remove them even if I could afford the thousands it would cost). They will offer habitat for all sorts of wildlife. Woodpeckers will love them. And the downed trees are a lasting testament to the power of nature and our puny existence.<br />
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Since these trees formed the southern boundary of the garden, far more light will come through next summer, possibly scorching plants that are used to growing in afternoon shade (I hope not), certainly changing the ecology of this area. I think I'll be able to renovate this end of the garden, but it may take a couple of seasons to discover what changes the changed ecology will make possible.<br />
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I'm rather excited by the prospect of moving with the garden into this new phase.<br />
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<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-25907566478390626252012-11-02T21:47:00.006-04:002012-12-17T21:39:29.099-05:00Fountains of light, abstract patterns, taking a chance on chance<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I took these photos just before we learned Hurricane Sandy was headed ou<span style="font-size: x-small;">r</span> way. Since we weathered the storm on high ground in Brooklyn, I have no idea whether the garden was knocked flat or blown into a frenzy of exoticism. These may be the last images of the year--but probably not. I'll know whe<span style="font-size: x-small;">n</span> I can find enough gasoline to make my way out to Federal Twist.</span></i></div>
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Autumn progresses and the leaves change colors, shrivel, fall ...<br />
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... exposing structures of the garden perennials and the bare branches of
the forest trees beyond. With good light a kind of contrapuntal
patterning, a visual music, begins. This is present
through all seasons, but reaches its peak in fall.<br />
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is the dry end of the garden where tall perennials and
grasses--Panicums, Molenia, Miscanthus, Rudbeckia maxima--tower above
the shorter perennials--glaucous blue Pyncatheum muticum and golden bracken. There are
no flowers now, except for drifts of Aster tartaricus not visible here,
but who wants flowers with all this color? <br />
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This is an example of horizontal layering--plants dotted throughout the landscape, some tall, some short, some opaque, some transparent--in almost random distribution rather than lined in ranks as in a traditional flower border.<br />
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Graveled paths and concrete pavers run around and through this area but they're hidden by the perennial growth. The Wave Hill chairs below give a sense of scale and locate one of the paths. <br />
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The tallest grass is Miscanthus giganteus below, at about fifteen feet, counting the flowers ... <br />
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... which is about the height of the bank going up to the house, mostly hidden behind mounding miscanthus and other perennials.<br />
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Layering at a smaller scale--whisps of golden bracken and miscanthus flowers in front of Sedum 'Herbstfreude', backed by a real keeper, a native broom sedge (Andropogon virginicus) that was here before I started the garden.<br />
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The layering effect can be visually complex, and at times quite flat and two-dimensional, suggesting patterns on paper or textiles. Here a golden leaf of seedling Silphium laciniatum with seed stalks of Rudbeckia maxima.<br />
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At this time of year, the garden takes on colors of the surrounding forest, though in more concentrated form. Seen from above, the plants make a bowl of abundance, and you can see the colors of the garden and the forest beyond are one. The green wall of trees that acted as a barrier during summer vanishes in areas of deciduous growth, and the garden joins with the open spaces of the forest ...<br />
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... to enjoy the patterning, you have to go down into the garden and look out through the layers of planting. Lines, voids, colors and textures make sensuous compositions easily seen during this brief season, creating <br />
graphic, at times abstract, tableaux ... but tableaux that evoke emotional response. I think of tossing currents, heaving waves, sea metaphors to capture the movement, implied and real ...<br />
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... and depending on the light and time of day, you may find yourself
in a world of magic, nature made unreal, touched by artifice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Layers--Eupatorium perfoliatum, box wood, Hydrangea quercifolia, Miscanthus adagio, Salix britzensis, then forest.</td></tr>
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With this kind of naturalistic, "pseudoecological" gardening, combining many different plants in close communities, editing is very important BUT it must be balanced with a willingness to experiment, to "take a chance on chance," to wait and see if an emerging plant or group of plants can work.<br />
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Below, for example, the mid-height plant at the front is an easily self-seeding native, Eupatorium perfoliatum (Boneset). I wanted it in the garden, and it appeared on its own about four years ago. Now it's spread, but not so vigorously that I need to bother about it much. In early fall, when there isn't much other color, the off-white umbelliferous flowers of this plant are a pleasant ornament and they add bright spots of light as darkness comes. I'm glad to give it the run of the place, and can easily pull it out when it appears where I don't want it.<br />
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One of the challenges of a naturalistic garden is the potential mess
if plant growth isn't carefully edited. Since this garden needs a
feeling of fullness and abundance, most editing is limited to removing
self-seeded plants that don't belong in positions nature chooses for
them. Only rarely do I need to clear an area and replant but that does
happen.<br />
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Here, in this tunnel-like planting of Miscanthus, dry, leaden spires of Inula racemosa 'Sonnerspeer' add a mysterious touch, a somber note, that's an emotional highlight of this moment in the garden. The Inula is self-seeding wildly. I'm sure I'll have to eliminate many seedlings next spring, but it has such an extraordinary structure and presence, I wouldn't be without it. <br />
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Though modeled on natural environments such as the banded appearance of
grasses seen across a wild field, the horizontal layering in the garden is a combination of accident and intentional planning. It's important to accommodate accidents of growth
and self-seeding, but also to edit when necessary. From
front to back (below), Liatris spicata, Panicum 'Shenandoah', Aster tartaricus, seed stalks of Rudbeckia maxima, Filipendula rubra, Thuja, then the forest
trees with their network of limbs jutting this way and that ...<br />
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... all rather precariously balanced between chaos and aesthetic order. An almost Japanese effect. Another person might want to edit this to make it simpler, but I prefer letting the pattern and organization emerge as you analyze the component parts.<br />
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The path below adds three-dimensional depth, suggesting a narrative of travel or a story. <br />
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More examples of horizontal layering, some closely cropped from the fabric of the wide view, looking very two dimensional ...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A simple example of layering--Rudbeckia maxima seed heads, mounded Filipendula, Thuja, background forest.</td></tr>
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... while the next is clearly three-dimensional, as signaled by the out-of-focus Silphium perfoliatum foliage in the foreground ...<br />
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... and again with the focus changed.<br />
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Moving back to the scale of garden landscape, the next images show horizontal layering across much larger areas. I think one thing that makes this layering distinctive is the figured ground field created by the forest background--a texture of trunks, limbs, leaves, colors that lends an almost painterly quality and an even greater sense of fullness, particularly at this time of year.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The same Silphium, Miscanthus giganteus, various Panicums further back, then forest trees.</td></tr>
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And in the next images, contrasting shadow and light contribute another kind of differentiation.<br />
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Another close-up abstract composition, Ligularia japonica and Panicum 'Cloud Nine' ...<br />
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The image below is an especially complex example--Aster tartaricus in the foreground and a stalk of Silphium on the left, then behind from left to right, Panicum 'Dallas Blues' and the leaden brown of Joe Pye Weed, with the orangish foliage of Filipendula behind, then a still green willow (Salix sachalinensis).<br />
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Does it hold together? I think I'd put it on a postcard. But it's a picture, not a garden. <br />
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Here the open simplicity of fine grasses in sunlight.<br />
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More complex patterns. Perhaps too wild looking for some.<br />
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But move in closer and order emerges.<br />
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Taking a view from the distance you can't tell where the garden ends and the woods begin. A reminder of how close the forest is, and the garden's transience. In forty years this garden would completely disappear if I didn't burn in spring and edit, edit, edit.<br />
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You can find the full photo set at this <a href="http://federaltwist.smugmug.com/Garden/Federal-Twist-Autumn-Oct-24/26158074_8GBJB7#!i=2174806906&k=TdXbQCR" target="_blank">link</a> (click on Slideshow in the upper right when you reach the link).James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-15454620074505858802012-10-27T22:38:00.001-04:002012-10-28T10:07:35.784-04:00Garden visitors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Surprised, I was, a few weeks back to get an email from <a href="http://www.noelkingsbury.com/57/Biography.aspx" target="_blank">Noel Kingsbury</a> saying he would be in the Philadelphia area for several days, and would like to drop by.<br />
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When we moved to Federal Twist in 2005 and I recognized I'd be
gardening in a very difficult place, my hope for the future came from two books by Noel
Kingsbury--<i>The New Perennial Garden</i> and <i>Planting Design: Gardens in Time
and Space</i> (written with Piet Oudolf). In the first, I learned about naturalistic gardening, in particular about planting into rough grass. In the second, about the three kinds of plants--competitors, stress tolerators, and pioneers or ruderals (more accurately, three primary growth characteristics shared, to various degrees, by different plants) and about prairies--the enormous numbers of plants in a square yard of natural prairie, for example, compared to the much smaller number of plants in a square yard of cultivated garden. My selection of plants was, of course, also affected by his popularization of the Oudolf plant selections.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noel Kingsbury and me (the one in the cap with his mouth strangely open) accompanied by towers of dried Inula racemosa "Sonnenspeer."</td></tr>
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Kingsbury is a scientist, and an extraordinary writer, so rather than oversimplify, I refer you to his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/No%C3%ABl-Kingsbury/e/B004N6I6RQ" target="_blank">books</a> for more details. Needless to say, they were of enourmous value to me making a garden in the woods of western New Jersey. <br />
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So I was certainly gratified to have Noel Kingsbury visit last weekend. We had a walk around the garden, then lunch, then a second garden walk. In between, Noel got out his computer and showed me images of the amazing plant communities in <a href="http://noels-garden.blogspot.com/2012/07/botanical-paradise-travels-in.html" target="_blank">Kyrgyzstan</a>, where he visited this past summer. <br />
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Just before Noel's visit to Federal Twist, I attended the 29th annual
Perennial Plant Conference at Swarthmore, where he was the first presenter of
the day. I had read and referenced his books so many times I had little to
learn, but I hope others "got" his message--that we need to pay
attention to how plants grow in nature to have more successful gardens, that we, in effect, can create artificial ecosystems that make our gardens more self-sufficient and, though not labor-free, certainly lower maintenance. (By the way, the Swarthmore conference is a tremendous conference, and the Swarthmore campus, also known as the Scott Arboretum, is extraordinarily beautiful. I give it the highest recommendation.)<br />
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I also met a neighbor from nearby Frenchtown at the conference. Well, I
didn't know we were neighbors, until I heard a woman behind me mention
Frenchtown, and on asking discovered she was <a href="http://www.helengrundmanngardendesign.com/helen/Helen_Grundmann_Garden_Design.html" target="_blank">Helen Grundman</a>, also a
garden designer. Helen and her husband <a href="http://organicplantcarellc.com/" target="_blank">Bill</a>, a forester and organic plant care expert, dropped by for a garden tour mid-afternoon. <br />
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The conference was full of surprises. During a break, while I was looking at a dried plant
arrangement on the stage, a guy approached me saying, "James?" It
was <a href="http://thegardenerseye.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Michael Gordon</a>,
a cyber friend who I've been in touch with for several years via the
blogosphere but had never met. Michael, from Peterborough, New Hampshire, has a blog
called The Gardener's Eye. An optometrist by profession, Michael is also an accomplished garden designer; he designed all the public gardens in Peterborough, as well as his own
very polished garden. Michael was traveling with his friend and well
known garden writer <a href="http://www.tovahmartin.com/" target="_blank">Tovah Martin</a>, and with garden designer <a href="http://maudeodgers.com/" target="_blank">Maude Odgers</a>, also from Peterborough. So several hours after Noel left, Michael, Tovah, and Maude arrived to see the garden in a beautiful just-before-twilight light. It was almost dark when we got back into the house and had coffee, drinks, and cookies, and a warm, pleasant conversation before they left for the long drive back to Connecticut and New Hampshire.<br />
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So my unusual day of garden visiting leads me to two conclusions: (1) I think I should attend more good garden conferences (and meet more people of a like disposition) and (2) I should have more garden visitors, preferably from midsummer to fall, just before sunset.<br />
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Is the Garden Conservancy listening?<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Photos of Kingsbury and me were taken by Phillip Saperia. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Unfortunately w</span>e forgot to take pictures of our other delightful visitors.</span></i>James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-3696977736746553992012-10-23T07:52:00.001-04:002012-10-23T08:09:50.387-04:00FieldThis field, on a sandy hillside outside Oxford, Mississippi, spills down from the front of a new house recently built. A traditional American landscaping approach would be to bring in soil and lay sod to create a lawn. The sandy soil would require tremendous quantities of water to keep the lawn alive. Fortunately, this has not happened. <br />
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The field is beautiful in itself, and an ornament to the house. The question is, can the field be maintained always to look this good?<br />
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The plant community we see here is in part a result of disturbance during construction of the new house. Some of the most significant and beautiful plants are ruderals, pioneer plants that quickly come in to colonize open ground, and thus likely to be replaced by other species over time in a natural process of succession.<br />
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The first and second photos show feathery dogfennel (Eupatorium capillifolium) in bloom with broomsedge (Andropogon virginicus), the predominating plant in the field. Broomsedge is a keeper and is likely to stay a long time. It's a beautiful field grass, especially in the fall and winter, common throughout the area, well adapted to local conditions. But the dogfennel is a pioneer plant, and is likely to disappear as other, more stable plant communities establish over time. Though it's considered a highly undesirable weed by agriculturalists, it's a striking perennial, with delicate, feathery foliage that captures and reflects light and a flexible structure that allows it to move about in the breeze. It's an animating plant, taller than broomsedge, providing vertical accent, aesthetic interest, and tactile pleasure. If touched, it has a distinctive, highly aromatic odor I find pleasant.<br />
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It may be possible to manage the field to retain its ruderal species but that would probably require repeated disturbance of the land surface, perhaps by rough mowing in the late winter, just enough to break the ground surface and expose seeding area for the ruderals to take hold anew each year. <br />
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Another option might be to let plant succession occur with minimal intervention (mowing once a year to clear the field for regrowth and prevent its reversion to forest). A third option might be strategic planting of cultivated species appropriate to the environment, actually managing the landscape, almost like a garden.<br />
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Above, in front of the dogfennel, is another ruderal that adds textural and color interest. Known by various common names such as hogweed and wooly croton (Croton capitatus), this plant is an annual with grayish foliage and distinctive gray flowers and seed heads. Here it appears to be growing in linear patches that follow the wheel tracks of heavy equipment.<br />
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Below you can see a "river" of wolly croton running up the hill from the road. <br />
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If this were my field, I'd roughly mow it once in the spring, making sure to break up the soil surface where I want the ruderals to reproduce, and watch what develops over the next two or three years. On second thought, I recommend that to the owners. I'd probably start by adding one or two large, distinctive perennials right away.<br />
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That's just my inclination.<br />
<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-19516910855477375142012-10-13T22:50:00.000-04:002012-10-14T09:20:34.536-04:00Faulkner's place<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer </i></div>
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<i>than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- Light in August, 1932</i></span></div>
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In this opening passage to Light in August, William Faulkner is drawing a distinction between the lasting effects of early memories formed before language and self-conscious "knowing" exist. I doubt Faulkner thought much about gardens, except as symbol or literary device, but his recognition of the power of early memory to shape an individual has bearing, for me, on the nature of emotional response, and by extension, on emotional response to the garden. I have my own inarticulate memories.<br />
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On a recent sad visit to Oxford, Mississippi, I visited Faulkner's home, not to see the house, but to walk the grounds which, especially near sunset, have a tranquility and quietness any garden might hope for.<br />
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The garden is very simple--sky, space, trees, derelict remnant of a long lost rose garden, lines of ragged privet hedges. In
years past, I might have doubted whether this place could properly be
called a garden, but now know it can.<br />
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Vacant brick-lined beds mark the old rose garden, now moss
covered in the deep shadow of trees, evoking thoughts of time past, layers upon layers of cultures mostly forgotten. Like a palimpsest, the substance is wiped away, but the outlines remain.<br />
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These scattered bricks make a profoundly evocative garden that far
surpasses any actual rose garden that might have existed in this place.<br />
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The old, straight cedars (Juniperus virginiana) measure off the large space, giving sense of scale ...<br />
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... and they frame the sky. Light and sky are, in fact, a central theme of this happenstance garden. Everywhere you walk the sky opens through apertures in the trees, and light floods in, making dark shadows appear even darker ... <br />
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... and the effects of low sunlight at this late hour and this late season are everywhere apparent. Just look at the chiaroscuro-like quality of these images ...<br />
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Culturally, the subjects of the images take us back beyond the rose garden to even earlier times, suggested by the modest house of a beloved black servant ...<br />
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... and to an even older time when this land was inhabited by native people who had no concept of ownership of the land ... and even further back, to wilderness itself.<br />
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<i>"<tt>He ranged the summer woods now, green with gloom, if anything
actually dimmer than they had been in November’s gray dissolution, where
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<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-67138828370714253982012-09-29T12:04:00.001-04:002012-09-29T12:07:30.107-04:00Tracking fall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last year's freak snow storm in late October unexpectedly crushed the garden. I've decided to track the progress of autumn, not knowing what will happen over the next few weeks. As time passes, as many plants decline, the garden becomes a garden of light.*<br />
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The plants become less important, merely visual armatures for light to work on, transforming the dissolution and effects of entropy into a kind of beauty.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panicum 'Shenandoah' front, Miscanthus gracillimus back.</td></tr>
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I think this is a cultural and historical phenomenon; it wasn't always so. We learn to see this as beauty (though some don't).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miscanthus giganteus, Rudbeckia maxima seed heads.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rudbeckia maxima scaffolding, self-seeded Silphium laciniatum behind.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking down the bank toward the pond, with candles of Sanguisorba canadensis brightening the shade.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miscanthus having a party.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White asters coming into bloom. The blue haze is Panicum 'Dallas Blues'.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Also Panicum 'Dallas Blues', a nice complement to the dried wine stain of Joe Pye Weed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Filipendula, a splendid plant for structure, texture and color (except in bloom).</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>* Credit where credit is due. <a href="http://veddw.com/" target="_blank">Anne Wareham</a> called my attention to this with the remark, "We garden with light."</i></span>James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-54647820958600281922012-09-24T15:43:00.002-04:002012-09-27T11:13:13.097-04:00In another light<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fall arrived this past weekend. The sun was shining full at a low angle, bringing the first intimations of the season's glowing golds, yellows, oranges and reds, stippled by purple asters, black seed heads, fruits and berries that announce the end of the garden year. The fermenting fragrances of autumn soon will begin to rise from the earth. <br />
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This set of sun-lit photos contrasts with the twilight photos in the previous post. Click on this <a href="http://federaltwist.blogspot.com/2012/09/in-balance.html" target="_blank">link</a> to see that post.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tall Silphiums and Rudbeckias dominate here earlier in the season. More interesting ground level plantings are in the works ... orange daylilies in grass, Pycnanthemum muticum, Rudbeckia 'Henry Eilers'.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wave Hill chair with Miscanthus purpurescens on right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking up toward the house. Is refuge in the house or is it in the garden?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back path with partially planted area on the left. I just seeded Sorgastrum nutans, which is endemic to this site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View across bracken toward six red walnut logs, with new Miscanthus giganteus making a partial wall behind.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hidden path into interior sitting area.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pycnanthemum muticum and Panicum.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A place to sit, like a nest among tall perennials.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Late blooming vernonia with asters and blue lobelia.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, naturally occurring on this site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The elevated box hedge slowly merging with the garden as perennials seed into the planting. I do have to control this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Eupatorium perfoliatum and Great blue lobelia, with a large self-seeded Patrinia scabiosifolia between, randomly timed to grow tall and bloom next year. Hydrangea quercifolia behind.</td></tr>
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<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-91743553182149635992012-09-21T22:53:00.001-04:002012-09-25T10:03:02.535-04:00In the balanceMy garden exists somewhere on the edge between a wild field and a cultivated garden. Knowing the nature of this place and the difficult conditions I was presented with when I first started the garden, I chose an experimental, naturalistic approach combining plants already on the site with new plants, many large enough to dominate, literally smother, competitors, some native, some not. The chief criterion was whether a plant could thrive in this place, not place of origin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mounding shapes like heaving waves, suggesting tumultuous motion, and evoking some anxiety perhaps?</td></tr>
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But my intent was bedeviled by a tentativeness, by concern that this was contingent on a host of uncertainties, a risk, a bet, a gamble. It might not work. And I've worried about the wildness over the years, not knowing whether my garden would survive as garden, whether I could maintain that precarious balance between wild and cultivated.<br />
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Now I have enough years with it to know I can. Though I'm with the garden only a few days a week, and I don't particularly like standing in the pond pulling weeds or dripping with sweat in a pile of scratchy Miscanthus, I can from time to time intervene in the dynamic process of plant competition, make changes for the better. At times, rip out unsuccessful areas and make them anew. Now I feel much more at ease with the messiness, the lack of neat edges, the ungardened or partially gardened areas.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The long view - much more tranquil, especially with the strong verticals of the trees behind.</td></tr>
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Many people, I realize, don't see a garden at Federal Twist. Some see a field of weeds and large, strange plants. Some become uneasy walking through it. Others "get it."<br />
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Since I don't really care for the labor of gardening, should I call this a garden an object of aesthetic or philosophical contemplation? One gardening acquaintance has called it a "creative mess." Is it?<br />
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The answer to both questions is "yes." <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White candles of Sanguisorba canadensis light up the twilight.</td></tr>
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It calls out to you to give it meaning.<br />
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You have to "find" the garden each time you look at it. I'm wary making comparison with paintings or photographs because they not at all the same, but it helps to look at the garden as an intentionally composed image. Simply taking a photograph does this, creating a frame that leads the eye to focus on individual details and find relationships within the framed image, and suggests the possibility of what lies outside the frame. It's a tool, so to speak, a way to learn how to look at the naturalistic garden.<br />
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Pattern and order ... in the first image you can see the mounding shapes of Miscanthus, Lespedeza, Oakleaf hydrangea, Joe Pye Weed, Filipendula and Golden rod, toward the back Miscanthus purpurescens in plumy flower. Added to this visual differentiation is the tumultuous emotional effect, a feeling almost of being tossed about by a sea of plants smashing together. A paradox, it seems, because all was quite still when I took that shot. Nothing is moving. The movement is only suggested by a seeming superabundance captured within that tight frame. The tumult and motion take place only in the mind of the observer, not in the garden. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With dense planting minor changes in position present new compositions.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bit of dark water evokes dark thoughts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lespedeza thunbergii 'Gibraltar' veiled by Prairie cord grass, an alien and a native. Only the native is invasive!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The central garden, with a bronze sculpture almost hidden by the plants, a pleasant visual association, and vaguely evocative - but of what?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raised planting of box extending back to the pond, joined to it by a mound of Oakleaf hydrangea, with irrepressible self-seeded Great Blue Lobelia and Eupatorium perfoliatum.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The main path across the garden. Most of the verticals are Rudbeckia maxima.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walnut log circle, intended as a reminder of native inhabitants of this area. But such symbols don't really work. You bring your own meaning to it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the photo this view looks rather chaotic, showing the garden teetering on the edge between order and chaos, but in three-dimensional reality you can move around. The sense of spatial definition brings the view back into balance.</td></tr>
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<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-46657589863909555442012-09-13T09:11:00.000-04:002012-09-13T10:50:20.291-04:00Kitsch or useful visual ornament?The Brooklyn garden on the morning of September 13. I mounted the ceramic face of Bacchus on Monday.<br />
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After visiting a garden last weekend with an overabundance of sculpture,
one which we all agreed had gone beyond artful to kitsch, I'm concerned
I may be doing the same with this object.<br />
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But it does have enormous
virtue. Apart from giving a fine point to the garden's small
perspective, its brightness catches the eye and keeps the eye within the
garden. It looks down at the ground plane and the plantings, making you do the same. So the visual focus is directed downward and the outside view of houses across the way becomes less
distracting. It really works quite well. It also reflects in the pool,
and its brightness highlights the glimmering surface of the water.<br />
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Yet another contribution--when I look out from the house, it looks back, creating a dynamic visual exchange that adds visual and emotional depth to the garden.<br />
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But what is the kitsch factor?<br />
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(Ignore the planting at the back. It's become a plant holding area. I want to put in green Hakonechloa macra in the spring.)James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-86321387017307253582012-09-04T23:08:00.000-04:002012-09-04T23:08:20.340-04:00Courtyard Gardens at Grounds for SculptureOn every visit to the Grounds for Sculpture I'm astonished by its beauty. Formerly a state fairgrounds, the place has several sterling Art Deco buildings. My favorite is the Domestic Arts Building, which is put to good use as the focus of several courtyard gardens. <br />
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<br />James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-74682325169600850032012-08-26T18:16:00.000-04:002012-08-27T11:12:57.024-04:00August 19 - Straight, Tilted, CurvedMost of the very tall plants at Federal Twist have blossomed leaving an interesting interplay of verticals, diagonals and curves. <br />
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As the season progresses, the plant communities take on greater complexity. But the strong lines imply an underlying structure and order.<br />
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It's messy, no finely manicured edges here, but it entertains me and gives me pleasure ...<br />
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... sensuous delight ...<br />
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... new thoughts, new ideas ...<br />
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... and feelings I can't express ...<br />
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... the interplay of chance and intention ...<br />
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I planted none of this Eupatorium perfoliatum (above). Rather, it planted itself. I'm just a line editor.<br />
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Here too (below), many of the plants seeded themselves ...<br />
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... and many of these were planted intentionally. Can you tell the difference?<br />
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An accident ... the great blue lobelia doesn't belong here, certainly not next to the box wood ... but I just couldn't pull it out. Perhaps next year.<br />
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Intention and chance ... the first plants to be put in here were Rudbeckia maxima; others followed, mostly without my help. The cloud of Filipendula I planted a couple of years later.<br />
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I wish I could say the juxtaposition of the Joe Pye Weed and the Sanguisorba was intentional. Was it? I can't remember, but I do like it.<br />
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One last chance surprise just caught my eye as I was passing - a molting praying mantis.<br />
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<a href="http://www.chanticleergarden.org/" target="_blank">Chanticleer</a> is like an artist's workshop, an atelier of the decorative arts of garden design. When I uploaded the photos for this post, I found myself recalling lines from one of my freshman year favorites, Yeat's <i>Sailing to Byzantium</i>, thus the title ...<br />
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<i>... such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make<br />Of hammered gold and gold enameling<br />To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;<br />Or set upon a golden bough to sing ...</i> <br />
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Chanticleer's horticulturists and garden designers do indeed use golds, yellows and oranges abundantly. You can imagine their working away during the slow winter months crafting new surprises to stimulate our senses, delight us, give us pleasure. It is, after all, "Chanticleer, a pleasure garden."<br />
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At Chanticleer, a plant in a pot of water is not just a plant in a pot of water. It's an aesthetic adventure, rendered thus ...<br />
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... and the floating images change each day. The creativity seems endless, and it can leave a first-time visitor literally breathless. I had such an experience on my first visit as I walked the garden in a state of emotional overload. It wasn't an entirely pleasant experience.<br />
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The fine workmanship, exquisite detail, the reaching for effect, the seeking ever after the new, the not-done-before is like no other garden I've known.<br />
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A pomegranate tree with blossom and fruit evokes other geographies, cultures and times. This is in the courtyard behind the smaller of the two residences at Chanticleer, and the garden is called The Teacup Garden. This particular tree, and the courtyard setting, suggest many things to different people I'm sure. But on this day, for me it was an Islamic garden in Spain in the Middle Ages ... but with a difference ... a restless imagination always at work ... <br />
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Step through a doorway in a wall and you're in a formal grove of bananas, of all things, lined up in rigid geometry. Bananas in profusion in the environs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! The Teacup garden planting changes every year, even from spring to summer, so you never know what to expect. This banana plantation certainly came as a surprise, almost like a slap across the face (just to get attention).<br />
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Here is the same scene back in April. Quite a transformation ...<br />
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Take a look for yourself. I'll keep words to a minimum, just naming the separate gardens, and commenting here and there.<br />
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Everything in the garden is decorative, leading to the question: Can a garden offer too much?<br />
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One of many intimate seating areas, this in the transition from The Teacup Garden to The Tennis Court Garden.<br />
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Tapestry-like ground covers at the top of the stairway leading into the Tennis Court Garden below ...<br />
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... which was rather stunning on this visit ... in hot colors on a very hot and humid day ...<br />
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You can see from the number of photos that this is one of my favorite gardens at Chanticleer. It really epitomizes the risks the resident designers are willing--and able--to take. At times, it can look a mess, but this day it was an exercise in brilliance, a tour de force, teeming with unexpected juxtapositions of color, form, texture.<br />
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Chanticleer, the garden's eponymous icon, marks the entry to Chanticleer House and terraces.<br />
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View of the distant Pond Garden from the Chanticleer House terrace ...<br />
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... and of the Serpentine, always planted with a crop plant--this year sorghum.<br />
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An explosively decorative shrub ...<br />
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Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) 'Fenway Park'. At least I think it is. This leaf has a crinkled texture and substance that's different from other Fenway Park cultivars I've seen, so I'm wondering if Chanticleer has acquired a superior cultivar.<br />
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... though the main house terrace was surprisingly subdued this summer, it still has a tropical look I've come to expect at Chanticleer.<br />
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The main walk ... plenty of color here ... and a stunning golden form of Ficus lyrata in planters ... that striving for effect, to delight you and me ... and, as usual, done successfully ...<br />
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The Serpentine up close ...<br />
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... a beautiful, large-scale landscape feature whose openness contrasts dramatically with the shade and darkness of the Asian Woods to come next, then the Pond Garden ...<br />
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Seed of Paeonia obovata (I believe) at the edge of the Asian Woods.<br />
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I don't know this plant, but it's certainly striking.<br />
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Lotus in the Pond Garden ...<br />
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Azaleas blooming (in August) on the walk through Bell's Woodland, which features plants of the eastern North American forest ...<br />
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The Ruin Garden ... where you'd expect a somber mood but instead find imaginative playfulness. Here huge stone acorns under small oaks, even an oak seedling ...<br />
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On the right, large stone slabs carved with veins like leaves ...<br />
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A decorative floral "mantlepiece" ...<br />
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A group of Ilex 'Skypencil' I refer to jokingly as The Holy Family (no, the metaphor doesn't fit) ...<br />
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A fountain with marble faces ... I find it rather macabre ...<br />
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A fountain of sedum pouring out of a rock column ...<br />
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Chanticleer is a garden with a sense of humor. This is an American living room, with sofa and easy chairs of stone, even a stone TV remote decorated with buttons of colored stones ...<br />
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The Vegetable and Cut Flower Garden ...<br />
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... leading to an enclosed Potager ...<br />
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This takes time, just to see what will happen. The unexpected. Effects of weather, for example. How the heavy rains and wind three weeks back bent over the four suddenly top-heavy Gleditsia, prompting me to prune and stake them, anticipating more rain and wind and snow and ice in winter ... <br />
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... bent over to the ground. Thank god the trees are flexible and didn't break. Here is one crown after removal of about a foot on each side and cutting to encourage growth up and out.<br />
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The shade bed is growing well, but I can't know what to do until winter passes and I see which plants like this place, which are long-term keepers, and which should go. You design, plan, select, plant, but chance and accident really determine what the garden will be in a few years. You just have to go with that throw of the dice, the thrill of the unknown, unforeseen, make of it what you will.<br />
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The austere pool is a powerful balance to the fulsome planting, which I can now see needs to be pared, refined. The fence needs flatter vines, perhaps the dwarf Boston ivy I found this weekend. The climbing hydrangea is too bulky, visually too busy. It's chatter conflicts with the more serene, sculptural shapes. Probably better at the back.<br />
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Most ground covers have yet to close up the exposed soil ...<br />
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... though the Selaginella is doing unexpectedly well considering the intense heat over the last few weeks. I especially like the Carex muskingumensis 'Oehme' above and am likely to bring more from Federal Twist. Those wet, slightly rotted epimediums and the little blue hosta haven't won my admiration.<br />
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The side opposite, the sunny side, is thriving. Here are two Pennisetum 'Hamlen', Pycnanthemum muticum in its white-flowering, ultra fragrant loveliness, an almost black ajuga, thyme, and at each end a small box wood (yes, they need to grow larger for impact), suggested by <a href="http://ourfrenchgarden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rob</a>. The box have to grow but I do think their geometry and dark green will help unify this exuberance and control the colors. <br />
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The large grass at back is much bluer than I expected. It was sold as Panicum 'Cloud Nine'. I've begun to suspect it may be Dallas Blues or Northwind. Won't know until the flowers open. I've thought of replacing it with an evergreen, perhaps a large Ilex 'Sky Pencil'. Of course, the ones I had my eye on have been sold, so I have more opportunity to engage with search and compromise.<br />
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Bronze fennel and Pycnanthemum muticum transplanted from Federal Twist are successful in the heat and all day sun. At right (above and below) is Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ...<br />
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... their intense blue flowers can stand up to the bright light that floods the garden throughout the day. (Their blue really pops; these photos can't show that.) And it makes a good ground cover alongside the Sedum 'Herbstfreude'. <br />
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The Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant' I read will grow to eight feet. This one may be a game changer--if it survives the winter. It's settled in and is growing vigorously.<br />
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At back, I decided to go with dark colors to complement other dark plants in the garden (a purple Cotinus, Persicaria 'Red Dragon', bronze fennel, brown and purple sedums). I planted a weeping fastigiate purple beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Purple Fountain') in one corner, which will eventually help disguise an unsightly telephone pole.<br />
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The pool, the walls, the field of gravel, the four Gleditsia triacanthos 'Sunburst', the "random" box diagonal, these are garden Number 1. The other plants are garden Number 2, and I don't see an end to changes in the foreseeable future.<br />
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Who knows?James Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20141337.post-54900721853629651992012-07-28T09:49:00.000-04:002012-07-28T09:49:26.361-04:00The Incredible Shrinking Man<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I say I don't have a lawn, but I suppose I do--a very tall lawn, a simulacrum of a tall grass prairie, highly modified. Modified in very specific ways to grow on my wet land perched on the rim of the Delaware River Valley. To see my garden as lawn, it's helpful to imagine yourself very small, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man" target="_blank">the incredible shrinking man</a>, walking among blades of grass that have become like giant trees.<br />
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Indulge my little conceit, a lawn of very large plants, many not grasses. The Rudbeckia maxima and the scrim of fading Filipendula below are taller than you are. So taking a walk through--not across--the lawn at this time of year is a thoroughly three-dimensional experience.<br />
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This kind of lawn has several advantages. You don't have to water it. Even with day after day of over-90-degree temperatures, and little rain, it's doing fine. After several years of growth, the roots have gotten deep enough to reach what water remains well underground.<br />
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You can hide in this lawn--totally disappear, just like the incredible shrinking man, and no one in the house can see you. Need I enumerate the advantages? A fine place for dalliance, though that's not likely to happen at Federal Twist, except among the bugs and butterflies and frogs. A fine place for peeing outside too; that's good for driving away groundhogs. And it adds nitrogen to the soil.<br />
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Nor do you need to feed it. The plants stay in place over winter, so their goodness returns to the soil. After burning and chopping in spring, the detritus adds organic matter to the earth. It's certainly not self-maintaining, but care is infrequent, and not too much work.<br />
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It plants itself. Above, self-seeded Vernonia with Hydrangea arborescens by the pond ...<br />
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Another self-seeder, Silphium perfoliatum, on the right by the path. It, too, is taller than you. The lone Liatris is from one of several experimental corms I haphazardly put into the ground last winter. I see I should add many more.<br />
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Breaks in the tall field of planting create voids, corridors of view, and relative perspective. Here the tall Rudbeckia maxima, Miscanthus giganteus, Cercis canadensis
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So another advantage of this kind of lawn: it offers opportunity for daydreams, psychic mini-vacations. Make of the spires of Thuja what you will. But do notice the silver white bloom of the Pycnanthemum muticum, buzzing with hundreds of bees and wasps, so fragrant it opens the door to another sensual world.<br />
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Traveling the main path across the lawn is almost like moving through a three-dimensional simulation. All the tall yellows and purples shift relative position as you move through the field, and the sharp orange and red daylilies play visual tricks, sometimes moving closer, at other times receding, adding to the perception of depth. <br />
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This lawn gives pleasure in many ways, some quite subtle, but you have to bring a certain sensibility, attention to detail, openness, moments of stillness. These little emotional pleasures require a contemplative state of mind, then they come, transient re-cognitions, like meeting dear friends from the past. <br />
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Daylilies planted out in the field of grasses are virtually invisible until they bloom. (Some flowers <i>are</i> important, and I want to add 50 or 60 more daylillies.) They offer transient visual delight, surprises, like giving a child a bright colored object.<br />
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Moving on to the far end of the garden, where a layer of rock under the surface makes a dryer, leaner planting environment ...<br />
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... and the plant community is different. More of the "legacy" plants were left in place (Timothy grass and other pasture grasses, Blue-eyed grass, bracken, assorted Persicaria), so the character of the planting is different.Those tall plants not yet in bloom beside the paving are Inula racemosa 'Sonnenspeer', another prolific self-seeder.<br />
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Prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum) with big, paddle-shaped leaves gives this area a unique solidity and mass, and a bit of humor. They seem to impose themselves on the landscape, squat down on the ground almost like uninvited guests who decide to take up more room than anyone else. Or like strange animals from another planet.<br />
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I was twelve when I first saw <i>The Incredible Shrinking Man</i>. It was a formative experience of my childhood. I remember Scott Carey, at the end of the movie, disappearing into the grass of the lawn as he continued to shrink, the grass having become like a forest. He'd become an explorer of the infinitesimal, perhaps to find a door to infinity. <br />
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This fired my imagination far more than anything I had ever heard at the
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No, I don't imagine I've become Scott Carey when I walk through towering plants, but I do feel some of that sense of mystery and discovery. <br />
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Contemplating this scene, watching the changes from season to season, from year to year, I recall those feelings I had over 50 years ago as I watched Scott Carey receding into invisibility. <br />
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Here today, gone tomorrow.<br />
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At the end of the movie, Scott Carey stands at the window screen of his basement, about to walk out into the natural world to meet his fate ...<br />
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<strong>Scott Carey</strong>: I was continuing to shrink, to become. .
.what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the
man of the future? ... So close – the infinitesimal and the infinite. But
suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The
unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet – like the
closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp
the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God’s silver tapestry
spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the
riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man’s own limited
dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in
man’s conception, not nature’s. And I felt my body dwindling, melting,
becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came
acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something.
And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I
meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!<br />
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