This is Roger Griffith featured on http://www.marthastewart.com/ in his New York abode-I just love every inch of his garden it certainly inspires...it overflows with charm and old world inspiration!
"Griffith relaxes on the patio in front of his perennial garden, which bursts with blooms during three seasons. Spring kicks off with tulips, bread poppies, and peonies, giving way to the night-blooming daylily Hemerocallis citrina, thalictrum, goat's beard, 'Indigo Spires' salvias, and 'Sum and Substance' hostas in summer. Fall brings on 'Limelight' hydrangeas, 'Autumn Joy' sedums, and tickseed, which glow in the season's soft rays."
As spring is just around the corner I am getting anxious to work out in the yard and get some fresh air. Looking through my mothers books I found a 1951 edition of Better Homes and Gardens "Garden Book"-a bible to yard layout, upkeep, and planting of the good oldies such as lilac bushes, delphinium, rudbeckia, climbing roses, bearded irises and yew(just to name a few). A great book even though it's 62 years old! The picture above is of a espalier fruit tree-I saw an apple espelier in Taos, NM a few years ago in a nursery and it intrigued me...Espalier is the horticultural and ancient agricultural practice of controlling woody plant growth by pruning and tying branches so that they grow into a flat plane, frequently in formal patterns, against a structure such as a wall, fence, or trellis, and also plants which have been shaped in this way.The word espalier is French, and it comes from the Italian spalliera, meaning “something to rest the shoulder (spalla) against.”[2] During the 17th Century, the word initially referred only to the actual trellis or frame on which such a plant was trained to grow, but over time it has come to be used to describe both the practice and the plants themselves.[1] The practice was popularly used in the Middle Ages in Europe to produce fruit inside the walls of a typical castle courtyard without interfering with the open space and to decorate solid walls by planting flattened trees near them.
Love this mixture of tulips and pansies stuffed in these great concrete containers...
Roger Griffith's flower and vegetable garden, just hours north of New York City, is like a farm stand in a backyard. He uses succession planting, in which seeds are sown about every three weeks, to ensure produce into fall.
Inspiring English cottage-stuffed full of tulips, irises and other beautiful plants....
A Martha-inspired garden-this could easily be done in any backyard love the twig/bark borders around each section-the finnials on the section of fence surrounding it is a good idea as well...love the posted lanterns leading the green grass pathway to a white draped table...
Love this mixture of tulips and pansies stuffed in these great concrete containers...
Roger Griffith's flower and vegetable garden, just hours north of New York City, is like a farm stand in a backyard. He uses succession planting, in which seeds are sown about every three weeks, to ensure produce into fall.
Inspiring English cottage-stuffed full of tulips, irises and other beautiful plants....
A Martha-inspired garden-this could easily be done in any backyard love the twig/bark borders around each section-the finnials on the section of fence surrounding it is a good idea as well...love the posted lanterns leading the green grass pathway to a white draped table...