Catherine and Mel with one of their dogs, Max. Photos by Mike Hnida “Good fences make good neighbors.” Though Robert Frost penned those words long before ou ...
The fence kinda frames this old abandoned house in Antelope County Nebraska.
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Farm just below Hogback Mt., Marlborough Vt. Contrast with the Infrared.
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Cunningham's Gap (near the Helipad). An excellent day of 4wd'ing, socialising and photography was had yesterday with a bunch of people from AP and flickr. Our first photographic stop was on the side of the approach to Cunningham's Gap. This is a fantastic spot and changes with weather and time-of-day. I have a bit of a penchant for old fences and thus couldn't pass this one up.
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In Mending Wall, poet Robert Frost decries the saying that "Good fences make good neighbors". It's a beautiful piece of writing but I feel the saying has great relevance in an urban setting.
The time: A couple of years ago. The place: a 16' by 21' terrace crammed between the ugly backs of four Manhattan buildings. The host: Well, there wasn't one- interior designer Miles Redd rarely ventured behind his town house. But all of that changed when he recast the dreary spot as a dreamy paradise of furniture and flora- a well-appointed open-air living room.
Every year around this time I start thinking of the beautiful blooms in the garden beds throughout the yard. I get anxious for warmer weather, and just thinking of the explosion of color that takes place is exciting. I love to see little sprouts break through the soil and plants breaking their dormancy. The hard work and months of planning and waiting are well worth it. When I organize my garden beds, I plan with several things in mind: Color, texture, form, and hardiness. I love perennials, and most of my beds are filled with these plants, that come back year after year. I like plants that require minimal care and are vigorous. Since I make arrangements each week through bloom season, I also take into account the plant's vase life. By planting early, mid and late spring bloomers, a long bloom season can also be accomplished. Here are some of my favorite beds:
At this time of year we are often overwhelmed by what is going on in the garden. Things are bursting with color, while others are unfurling delicately. All of a sudden the fence which we drove past…
I count myself lucky to be the new owner of a stately 19th century New England home, complete with butler's pantry and winding stair. The only blight o
Take a tour of a stylish, yet comfortable, summer home located on Shelter Island, New York.
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My 'Gold Flame' honeysuckle is in full bloom right now, and it is georgeous!! Honeysuckle is a super, easy-to-grow ornamental vine for our area. The 'Gold Flame' variety has salmon pink blooms with a yellow throat. Also available in the garden centers right now is the 'Coral' variety which has bright orange blooms (I always thought the names on these two were the opposite of what they should be!) and 'Halls' honeysuckle which has fragrant white and yellow blooms. 'Halls' honeysuckle is probably the one you remember "tasting" when you were a kid! Close-up of a 'Gold Flame' honeysuckle bloom. All of the honeysuckle varieties can be grown as a ground cover or on a trellis or topiary. It will twine up just about anything, but it won't stick to your fence or wall. Once estabilished, honeysuckle doesn't need much water, but it does require vigilant pruning as it can rapidlly overtake an area of your landscape. For that reason, I prefer to grow mine on a free-standing iron topiary my mom gave me for my birthday a few years ago. Topiared honeysuckle covered with blooms. Honeysuckle prefers full sun but is tolerant of some shade. It blooms most heavily in early spring and will continue to bloom sporadically through the summer. A word of warning: I did manage to kill some of mine several years ago by overwatering it. My nursery customers at the time were amazed by this because killing honeysuckle is hard to do! If overwatered, it can develop powdery mildew (it looks like white baby powder on the leaves), and if you still keep watering it (which I did!), it will die. Other than that, you'll have an easy time with it and enjoy the blooms (and fragrance of the 'Halls') for most of the growing season.
The owners of this brilliant garden in Clifton Hill love plants so much that they bought the vacant block next door and turned it into a garden. It's really special. Check it out!
More arboreal architectural awesomeness, here brought to you by German architect Marcel Kalberer and the Sanfte Strukturen group. The first structure,
Be inspired by our wonderful images to use climbing roses in your garden. By training a fabulous, fragrant climbing or rambling rose up a wall or or fence, you can covert a dull, even unsightly area into one of the most stuffing features in your garden.
Been working on the new house this week, building a fence and also packing things up in the old house. Here are some images I have been collecting from Lloyd Kahn’s Shelter II, inspiration fo…
Just in time for Spring! We transformed our super ugly sheds with very little money with scrap pallet, fence, and miscellaneous lumber. The door on the large…
On Washington's Bainbridge Island, where saltwater and high tides are a daily reality, a pair of clients asked Seattle-based Wittman Estes Architecture + L
Yesterday's post was on fences and I mentioned wanting to add a mirror to the Great Wall so with that in mind I thought I would do a post on...
Check out the renovation of this Bed-Stuy Brooklyn townhouse, which had historic limitations when it came to making changes.
How to be a good neighbor: 9 old fashioned tips for getting to know the folks next door.
See how this rural garden on the NSW Central Coast was transformed with sweeping lawns, landscaped garden beds, native plants and ornamental grasses.
Jumping from the domain of art to that of architecture and back again, Faustino played on the fringe of both these fields so as to create a distinctive, impermanent site from where he could perform a highly personal, critical form of architectural commentary.
