Food and garden books with everything you need to know about kitchen gardens. From designing to cooking, Ellen's books feature beautiful photos & recipes.
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Over 250 pages of garden themes and design ideas from professional ktichen garden designer Ellen Ogden. Featuring 100 recipes and luscious photography.
Although my spuria iris flowers astound me just once a year, they do it every year—drought, flood, or freeze—since Scott Ogden shared a few divisions with me years ago. My garden is resilient, too, thanks to the words he’s shared with me through all his books. Lauren Springer Ogden is another mento
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Designing the kitchen garden takes strategy, time and vision. In my new weekly design class, I give you the tools to take home to your edible landscape.
A classic four-square parterre garden is defined by boxwood circular brick paths, two white benches, and an orderliness that reflects a simple design.
Food and garden books with everything you need to know about kitchen gardens. From designing to cooking, Ellen's books feature beautiful photos & recipes.
The Complete Kitchen Garden book teaches gardeners stylish ways to transform an ordinary garden into an extraordinary experience.
Designing the kitchen garden takes strategy, time and vision. In my new weekly design class, I give you the tools to take home to your edible landscape.
The Complete Kitchen Garden book teaches gardeners stylish ways to transform an ordinary garden into an extraordinary experience.
Over 250 pages of garden themes and design ideas from professional ktichen garden designer Ellen Ogden. Featuring 100 recipes and luscious photography.
A classic four-square parterre garden is defined by boxwood circular brick paths, two white benches, and an orderliness that reflects a simple design.
The Complete Kitchen Garden book teaches gardeners stylish ways to transform an ordinary garden into an extraordinary experience.
The Complete Kitchen Garden book teaches gardeners stylish ways to transform an ordinary garden into an extraordinary experience.
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The Complete Kitchen Garden book teaches gardeners stylish ways to transform an ordinary garden into an extraordinary experience.
Designing the kitchen garden takes strategy, time and vision. In my new weekly design class, I give you the tools to take home to your edible landscape.
The Complete Kitchen Garden book teaches gardeners stylish ways to transform an ordinary garden into an extraordinary experience.
The Complete Kitchen Garden book teaches gardeners stylish ways to transform an ordinary garden into an extraordinary experience.
Food and garden books with everything you need to know about kitchen gardens. From designing to cooking, Ellen's books feature beautiful photos & recipes.
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The Complete Kitchen Garden book teaches gardeners stylish ways to transform an ordinary garden into an extraordinary experience.
The Art of Growing Food explores the six steps to creating your own kitchen garden design. Fun lecture with beautiful photos for gardeners.
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A kitchen garden design that includes four-square organic rotation combines classic design, is easy to plant and creates a healthy vegetable garden.
Hello friends! Yes it's been awhile, that's for sure. Our winter has been way too long for my taste, but the last couple of weekends we've had some nice weather finally , and I can see Spring around the corner! It can't get here soon enough though. :) The best thing to do while waiting for the lush green grass and buds to sprout , is keep busy preparing for it... That's exactly what I've been doing ;) Preparing. I've been busy in the mini kitchen baking up lots of sweets for a Bakery I'm working on for the Spring issue of Mini-ologie. And here's a little peek of some "fresh from the oven" cakes that will line the counters. I've also been working on a little kitchen with a laundry room. (ps: Thank you Diane Melcher!) I've been trying my hand at a few new techniques also. Some of my mini cakes will be a smooth dense surface and others will be flaky , deep with delicious buttery moistness like below. I call it the Duncan Hines look ;) This is my little inspiration board for the Bakery below... It'll have some of the aspects of a favorite bakery of mine. Sweet Melissa's. Which closed it's doors in Brooklyn, but still has a website. I sure do miss walking in there! I've also been playing with air-dry clay (below) and Copic and Distress markers. It's been so much fun learning new ways to design miniature food! I love experimenting and playing scientist. I never want to stop learning because to me, that's half the fun. I'm not sure I'd switch over from polymer to air dry clay, but it's fun for certain items. Well the past month hasn't been all about minis. It's been about finding time to be good to myself and get as healthy for the new year as I can. I've always appreciated good wholesome food , with little processed food in my diet. But now, I've taken it a step further by switching over to all organic , very plant based , much less meat, etc way of eating. I love my pies /sweets as most of you know, lol, but there is room for everything if cooked and baked with my health in mind. I've grown to love a daily green shake, fresh whole organic milk, and so many amazing new foods. So far my body has thanked me by shedding 20 pounds (that I've wanted off for years lol) and it's like my insides are much happier. :) Which btw, over the winter, I was sick so often with one thing or another, that I did this diet/lifestyle turn-around just to finally get well! So it was sort of by default, lol, but however I got here it was worth it and I've never felt better. As a miniature artist, a lot of time is spent on creating and sculpting and I'm afraid I wasn't balancing that with enough exercise throughout the day, so now my running shoes have a lot more worn out treads on them and that's been a great change for me. It's great to love working on miniatures, but I've got to remember to make myself a priority too! Be good to you!! ;) Here are a few photos of some delicious and healthy foods I've fallen in love with. I plan on starting a recipe collection and tips board on Pinterest, so stay tuned if you'd like some great ideas for meals, organic gardening, and easy life changing ideas. Who can refuse a chicken pot pie that is guilt free?! Or how great is it to learn that whole milk is allowed in a healthy diet? I was so used to skim milk, I actually didn't think I'd love "whole" again, or even want to drink it. I'm not even a big milk person, but it's just delicious! And of course, being a vintage style loving girl, who doesn't love an old fashioned milk bottle? ;) Honestly, milk tastes better by a mile when in glass! I spent a little time enjoying our local farm markets this weekend. I was actually out shopping for seeds for my garden this Spring, but I got very side tracked at a new farmers market on Long Island. I loved that I didn't have to drive out east on the island to get there either, it was practically right around the corner! Thank you Kerber's Farm , for having such a fabulous bakery filled with fresh baked beauties and the best apple crumb pie (and gluten free to boot) that I've ever eaten! (and that's including a regular flour based one!). Here's a little tour... I can only imagine how great it'll be when your garden vegetable shop is filled , and the flowers are blooming! I'll be back often! They also sell wonderful kitchen accessories too!! And of course, I can't wait till your cases are filled with fresh eggs daily. I hope they start over flowing soon, or I might have to start raising chickens myself :). I say that with a giggle , but honestly, I've been researching chickens a lot this week. I found out my township allows up to 8 in our backyard, so I got all excited and I've been trying to convince Mr. Cottage that they will fit right in! If anyone has "raising chickens in suburbia" tips or thoughts, I'd love to hear! I wanted to bring home this salvaged door from Kerbers with me, perfect as a kitchen island or coffee table! ;) I stocked up on some delicious Jams, homemade sweets , and just had such a nice time visiting this sweet little farm. After our visit, my girl gang (Mom and Melanie) and our driver (Mr. Cottage) were off to get what we came out for.... Garden goodies: Seeds, books, ideas, and fresh veggies from another local farm: Makinajian's. I love this place too! And being that we've only had pockets of 50+ degree days here and there, when it's nice out, you've got to keep going lol! I'm hoping when I'm all finished "preparing" for Spring/Summer, the end result will be something like this kitchen garden photo below. (Ellen Ecker Ogden- The Complete Kitchen Garden book) One of each below....and more inside :) But for now, it's veggies from the market.... So while the snow keeps melting..... you'll find me reading garden books, researching backyard chickens, making miniatures and scenes for Spring Mini-ologie and .... last but not least.. Eating a tiny slice of healthy pie :) I hope the beginning of Spring is coming your way too! Oops, I almost forgot... I also got rid of my non-stick cookware this winter. I've cooked with both iron and non stick for as long as I've been cooking, but now I've decided to go to all Iron. Food just tastes so much better cooked the old fashioned way, not to mention how much healthier cooking in Cast iron is! If you haven't tried it yet, I highly reccomend it! I couldn't resist a little lamb cookie cutter when I ordered my new pan set. :) I wish you all ...a beautiful , charming , and healthy week ahead! "Enjoy the simple things..... like the quiet time of day when the sun streams onto the kitchen counter, and the smell of Spring is in the morning air". Hugs and love, Cynthia x0
Lauren Springer Ogden designed prairie garden at Chatfield Farms The Great Plains made their historical entre onto the consciousness of the European world with the publication of the Report of the Long Expedition in 1823 where they are labeled "the Great American Desert"...our plains and prairies have suffered a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde complex ever since. Who hasn't driven across I-80 or I-70 and not quietly grumbled about the endless miles of "nothing"? But if you happen to be in the right spot at the right time (and be led by a particularly knowledgeable Cicerone) you may be singing a different tune... Another view of the Chatfield Farms prairie Piet Oudolf, Roy Diblick and a host of other talents have created sublimated prairies--usually employing plants of the more easterly prairies--many of which are featured in Lauren's Chatfield garden as well. I have seen and admired a number of the European master's works--very dramatic and crowd pleasing. The crowd doesn't always realize the profound knowledge and skill it takes to create those multi-season tableaux. A number of Colorado-based artists have quietly been doing their own take on the art of native prairie plants and gardens. Lauren's many acre extravaganza around the visitor's center at Chatfield is a masterpiece I curse because I drive hundreds of miles every year commuting every few weeks to watch its kaleidoscopic transformations! Lauren Springer Ogden designed prairie garden at Chatfield Farms The first two shots were taken in June, but it's blazing away still in August (a shot of the same garden as the first two, mind you!)...That's Muhlenbergia reverchonii, an absolutely spectacular grass Lauren and her husband Scott introduced to general horticulture through Plant Select a few years ago from the prairies of central Texas. And here it is in its autumnal magnificence. If you've not been to Chatfield yet to see this, put it on your list, please! Unlike the broad brush strokes of Oudolf, Lauren's technique is more naturalistic, with artful repetitions: both work in different ways. Lauren Springer Ogden designed prairie garden at Chatfield Farms You an probably guess I can't get enough of this garden! Lauren Springer Ogden designed prairie garden at Chatfield Farms There are other less grassy bits that feature more dryland plants of the intermountain region--it's an expansive and infinitely complex work that has not had the accolades it deserves. She is about to launch a similarly ambitious and fantastic project (an "Undaunted Garden" at the Gardens at Spring Creek in Fort Collins--a horticultural gem that is about to receive its diadem. If you're not commuting to Colorado to see gardens yet, you will be. Trust me. One last glimpse of Lauren's masterpiece. Of course you know the Echinacea. The white, which is simply supreme there every year, is Erigeron philadelphicus--a biennial common throughout the Eastern United States and Midwest, but also occurring naturally in Colorado--a spectacle all summer that astounds me because I've not seen it used anywhere else that I know of. The Modecai Childrens' garden has been a huge success, the naturalistic meadows throughout are a fantastic display of color and texture through the entire gardening year. Slightly later in the year from a different angle--almost a decade later: more subdued but very showy. Almost the same bed this past early summer.. It's sad that most of our visitors never see this garden since it's across from the main garden and labeled "Childrens"--they assume it's somehow childish. Nothing could be further from the truth. I never cease to be amazed how different this garden looks from every view This is basically the same bed, viewed from the other angle a few months later... Other parts of this garden are every bit as wonderful... The Laura Smith Porter Plains garden is arguably the best garden in the place--it is our native vegetation returned as closely as could have been here originally--all from germplasm collected within a close radius of Denver. I especially love it in late summer. Again, every view seems different from every angle, and it changes subtly from year to year... Dan Johnson took over this garden after it had been left pretty much to its own devices for more than a decade after Rick Brune designed and planted it. Here is the only picture I have of Dan presumably spraying the rare weed: you never see him or any of his helpers in here: it's pretty much perfect with almost no intervention (if we ignore the burning every few springs)... Late summer in a lush year... More typical autumnal golds and browns... Castilleja integra has persisted many years. Even corners of our Japanese garden blaze with naturalistic design of natives The threeleaf sumac (Rhus trilobata) is fantasti every year. Cottonwood Border, Western Panorama gardens The true piece-de-resistance has to be Dan Johnson's breathtaking Cottonwood border just west of our great amphitheatre. One of four magnificent gardens featuring native plants from various ecosystems--here, obviously, the Great Plains. Virtually the same spot a month or two later--this, my friends, is inspired gardening! The steppe portion of Plantasia was rather sparse in the early years. Although the mass planting of scarlet tulips did make a splash...but look at this same spot a decade later! (And later in the year of course)... Plantasia steppe meadow I suggest you look back at the previous shot and tell me that it's not an amazing transformation! Steppe meadow I especially love this garden when the Eremurus stenophyllus are blazing: they've self sown and love this garden. Pulsatilla vulgaris and Agave neomexicana in the Rock Alpine Garden Hey, I know it's not a meadow--but thought you needed a little palate cleanser after all those grassy, mixed up shots...now let's go back to them Upper meadow (steppe) in Rock Alpine Garden This was our first attempt at re-creating a steppish habitat. It's been fantastically rewarding to watch this evolve--especially under Mike Kintgen's baton: he is truly a master. One little glimpse of Mike Bone, Kevin William's and Sonya Anderson's fantastic work in the Steppe Garden--I've featured this in blogs before, but not yet done it justice... Alas, the meadow below the Tyrannosaurus is as extinct as the Dinosaur (this whole area is now our Science Pyramid--which is pretty cool too, actually). But we've been meadowing for some time now. I finish with another garden which is rapidly fading towards extinction. Greg Foreman left his position at Lakewood Parks six or seven years now: the garden is being kept moderatly weeded (perhaps more by guerilla volunteers than Park staff at this point). Lakewood's Parks Department does have a lot of parks to look after--and no one of Greg's amazing skill has yet stepped in to restore it to the magnificence it displayed for almost a decade: I probably have several thousand pictures I took here. This is one of the supreme Colorado gardens. Although it is gradually experiencing a sort of tragic entropy, it has inspired Thornton, Westminster, Aurora, Denver and many other municipalities: parks workers in all of these are now trying to do what Greg did so magnificently. I hope they rise to the challenge! This picture was taken in late summer, by the way. There are lots of ornamental grasses tucked here and there--had he used a half dozen more even more generously, I think it would be the perfect Colorado garden. Zinnia grandiflora glowing yellow beyond, Salvia pachyphylla in front. An especially striking spot: Eremurus hybrid, Penstemon 'Coral Baby' (hate the name) and Penstemon pinifolius 'Mersea Yellow' in front. Not sure of the blue: Scutellaria resinosa? This is pretty wild stuff. And finally Centennial Park on the Platte, which Rob Proctor designed (I suggested many of the plants to him however!)... For many years managed by DBG. The same bed today: the Pennisetum was removed and Perovskia and Muhlenbergia reverchonii added by Denver Parks designers (Julie Lehman?) Pretty good improvement in my opinion. Garden creativity, meadows and bold design are alive and well in Colorado: I'm proud to be a part of it and to know many of the players! I can't wait to see is in store for us yet in the fu
There’s always that one yard in your neighborhood, isn’t there? The one with the colorful flowers with butterflies flitting and bees buzzing.
The Complete Kitchen Garden book teaches gardeners stylish ways to transform an ordinary garden into an extraordinary experience.
A rustic trellis is one of most beautiful ways to enhance and create a portal into the garden. Finding way to weave together nature and art together, be it whimsical or practical, it allows you to open up your creativity. Here is how to build a rustic trellis.
The art of growing food with author and garden designer Ellen Ecker Ogden. Offering online classes on food writing and garden design, with weekly coaching sessions.
It's time to gently turn over the soil in the spring garden. Like a beautiful blank canvas waiting for the artist to create, it’s pretty easy to be in that glass-full kind of mood.
Learn to design a beautiful kitchen garden, in this six-week virtual design class, The Art of Growing Food, with free templates and helpful resources and expert support.
The New Heirloom Garden book features the best-tasting vegetables and most fragrant flowers, with original garden designs and recipes for cooks who love to garden.
The Complete Kitchen Garden book teaches gardeners stylish ways to transform an ordinary garden into an extraordinary experience.
A kitchen garden design that includes four-square organic rotation combines classic design, is easy to plant and creates a healthy vegetable garden.
