Garden of the Day: A Decade in Coming
[nggallery id=”23536″ template=galleryview] South Slope reader and professional gardener Rachel Prince sends us this report about her home turf… My garden has been 10 years in the making so far. The granite cobblestones were there in the beginning defining a bed at the back with three scraggly hemlocks in it. We dug the trees out…
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South Slope reader and professional gardener Rachel Prince sends us this report about her home turf… My garden has been 10 years in the making so far. The granite cobblestones were there in the beginning defining a bed at the back with three scraggly hemlocks in it. We dug the trees out as well as yanking out tons of English ivy. The patio we made out of stone salvaged from Vermont. We have since salvaged stone from all over the neighborhood; sills, marble mantles, bluestone pavers etc., which we plan to build with someday and now use as benches as well as dry laid stacks with planters on them in our front courtyard. The garden is mostly shrubs, perennials, roses and vines. I have deep affection for tulips, tree peonies, hellebores, roses, clematis, viburnums, blueberries and winter hazel. I have grown moonflower vines, passion flower vines and clematis up the clothesline ladder over the years.
NeoGrec – Try the city – they removed about 20 million of them from the plaza at the north end of Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint two years back. No-one seems to have know where they are now though.
I used an herbal organic insecticide spray on my tulip buds and squirrels stopped eating them. The plant oils in the spray didn’t taste too good.
Just lovely — congratulations. I’m jealous of your tulips and roses. Do you have lots of sun? And like Donatella I’m curious to know how you fend off rapacious squirrels.
While I’m posting, anyone know of a local source for half-size Belgian blocks, aka cobblestones? I’m looking for the 4″ x 4″ ones to pave an area too small for the full-size version.
So beautiful! Of course – hanging the hammock on the clothesline ladder! What a great idea!
Wonderful! the sunlight splashing across the yard, the hammock, the fragrances… mmmmmmm… 🙂
Warm and inviting.
In the 3rd photo, what’s the plant in the green pot to the left of the hellebores in the whitish pot?
OK, I want to know how those beautiful tulips survived Squirrel nation. Please tell me!!!
#1 hands down. Gets my vote too.
I can’t wait until my foundation plantings are that big and lush and well established too! Ten years, eh? Okay I’ll hang in there and keep feeding the roses.
I love the use of salvaged stone and marble. I want to do that too. I’d like to get some architectural salvage pieces.
It is nice, an English cottage garden, but I can’t see how people think its head and shoulders above all the other gardens we’ve seen. I like the use of the washing line ladder.