Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
Early August in the garden
9 Aug '09 5:29 pm The first five photos are of the new area I'm working on. It's in the Northwest corner of the lot, where I"ve reclaimed some land from the ivy, bamboo and blackberry brambles. This is where I want to build a new gate into the garden so that I can have groups in without leading them up the driveway. Not that the driveway is so bad but I don't think it makes for a very purposeful entrance if one is there to see the garden.
I'm thinking I'll route people out the first gate shown and along forty feet of trail to another gate so they'll know there is a year around creek here. The second gate will open into the old vegetable garden which is to become a very contemporary courtyard of sorts. From here folks can mingle on the decks or in the gazebo, eventually heading in the main gate to the back part of the garden. (Alternatively, after re-entering the garden through the second gate one can go past the small seating area with the window overlooking the creek and the Begonia wall. This has been a great boon for moving tools from the tool shed in this area for working on the new areas.
The other photos show some plants and views that came out okay from other parts of the garden. As you can see I'm jumped forums from "Garden Diary" to "Garden & Plants". That seems to be appropriate given the nature of most my posts, more about the photos and gardens than what a Diary would seem to suggest. (I'm experimenting with a different way to transfer photos from my online storage more directly but three files #'s 2,3&7 were a little to large, so I've made them the next readily availabe size smaller.)
Here you can see the wire trellis design and the use to which I put my cheap wall pots (ten free with any other purchase). Those are coleus in the pots.
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10 Aug '09 8:39 am But please explain that 2nd paragraph again. It's something only a maths teacher could understand. How about a thick line added to a photo of that excellent plan you drew...
I think I really like what I'm hearing and seeing! Circulation, and returning 'by another way' is a major part of a great garden design - not to mention borrowed landscapes...
Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
Yes siree .. (as my 3.5 yearold niece is fond of saying)
12 Aug '09 4:06 pm Here is a plot plan that shows the garden divided up into sections. If I'd have been smart, I'd have numbered the rooms (areas?) in the order they would be viewed on this tour.
The new gate into the garden will go in as shown here at the far end of the front hedge. Upon entering through the gate, one would see essentially what is in the first photo of the last post. The cinder blocks are holding the place of a raised bed for my Puya collection. Following the arrows, you can see that the intended tour would lead guests through the gate shown in the third photo of the last post and out onto the pathway you see there until they return to the garden proper through the second gate, shown in 4th photo of the last set.
From here the arrows show a path through the old Veggy garden (#5), to the Wildflower Meadow (#4) and then onto the driveway and the decks and gazebo (#2). At that point the arrows show a routing through the gates to the back garden into what I've been calling the Gravel Entrance garden (8#).
Really people can wonder any which way they like but if I'm leading them I'd turn right through the Broken Concrete Courtyard (#9) to the Pond Amphitheatre (#10), around the pond and down the Back Path. That would take us to the the "Y" (#11) and finally to the Circle Lawn and the Corner Deck (#12). From here I'd take them through the shade structure to show them the Garden Bed and the Begonia Wall (all in #13). Finally from here I'd take them through the gate as shown to the plantings along the bank above the creek at the Eastern end of property (#7). After that I guess we'd retrace our steps past the Begonia wall and the sitting area near the window in the fence shown in the 5th photo of the last set back to the new Contemporary courtyard in the old Veggy garden and to the decks where the food would be set out.
Let me know what's still not clear. I think the map with the numbered areas should help clear them up.
