“Queen of the Night” and “Maureen” hybrid tulips
in clipped parterres in Oscar de la Renta’s garden…
the impact of a retrained color pallet…
Cloches and tools at the ready in a stone cobbled
greenhouse designed by George Washington
and completed at Mt. Vernon in 1789 …
In Mt. Vernon’s kitchen garden the ordered garden beds are
filled with vegetables comparable to those grown in the 18th
century, espaliered fruit trees are trained against the surrounding
brick walls, and two octagonal garden sheds sit at either end
of the garden…
Valbonne, France…
Crates of aubergine colored wizened “noix”…
(walnuts)…lovely wood crates…
Mesh bottom, stacked vintage Dutch bulb crates…
Will cover wood on top with tin…
either project or garden cart…
At Valbonne again, in a grove of walnut trees…
perhaps someone took a break for lunch…
In Normandy,” Landscape architect Pascal Cribier reinterprets
the traditional French garden through his own vision
of rural geometry”
Cribier laid out a potager called “Jardin des Carrés”.
“In the traditional potager, like the one in the recreated
Renaissance garden at Villandry, the carrés, or square, is the
basic form for the entire series of beds, each planted with
only one kind of vegetable or herb.”
Each square is framed by stones removed
from the inner courtyard of the Palais-Royal
“In large quantities, in a kind of saturation of plants,
each one becomes more valuable as part of a whole.”
En masse, clipped box globes in the entrance court are set
on a diagonal among sandstone pavers.
Bliss along the garden borders of “Town Place” in West Sussex…
A wrought iron gate set into stone wall
at Rousham House, Oxfordshire
Sources: Visions of Paradise: Themes and Variations on the Garden Marina Schinz
House and Garden, Maison Cote Sud archives
I am amazed at the beautiful gardens you have shared today.
I love Oscar de la Renta’s tulips and the potager gardens and topiary trees and the wrought iron gate. Oh I loved everything.
What a great idea the bulb crate trolley is!
It was splendid looking at these beautiful gardens today, when I should be doing something myself. Thank you,
Hugs
Carolyn
beautiful gardens and the glass cloches have me all a quiver – I’m obsessed with them!
Beautiful!!!!!!
Greet
Love all your posts !!! This one about gardens is so inspiring
Such a beautiful post and images. It’s so lovely to see the photo of Rousham – it’s one of the most beautiful gardens I’ve ever visited! All gorgeous. Leigh
Where to start? The colors, the images with just enough information. the sequences…the inspiration…thank you.
Joan
Hi Joan. Thank you! I’ve enjoyed looking through your website http://www.joan-of-arts.com/ at all the wonderful art you’ve created, and how far it has traveled! What an amazing journey you’ve had as an artist. I’m so glad you stopped by. Trish
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