Mel’s Rustic Cabin Garden

A garden that invites you to stroll

Today we ’re visit Mel ’s garden .

I have had a landscape figure , installation , and maintenance business in the western Catskills since 2005 . My business name is Zone4 Landscapes , and I am not changing it to Zone5 Landscapes even though it might be more appropriate now .

I called my garden a bumpkinly cabin bungalow garden because that is how it is billed for theOpen Days Garden Conservancy tour , and that passably much enchant it . As a designer , and emphatically in my own garden , I reach to make a functional layout first and then to make a wonderful feeling of the garden . I have sex plants and lovemaking detail in the garden , but the overall map and feeling is what I really go for . In my garden , the function is to look great from the front porch where the eyeshot is seeable and to pull you into the garden to explore . It is somewhat much a stroll garden , and you are definitely in the garden , not front at it from the lawn .

A drone’s - eye view of the garden from above record the overall layout of the design . Even at this tallness , it is easy to see all the contrasting color of foliage and flowers that make this space charming .

The view from the porch looks out over the lush plantings to the rolling hills beyond .

The crushed rock way of life invites you to stroll through the garden and take it all in . planting right along the edge of the course , like the orange geums ( Geumhybrid , Zones 5–7 ) , soften the edges and create a relaxed , informal look .

Metalcontainers filled mostlywithherbsare both beautiful and functional , keeping aggressive spreader like pot ( Menthasp . , Zones 4–10 ) from extend beyond their bound .

blossoming treesandshrubsadd proportion and layer to the garden . Everywhere you look there is something beautiful .

A bare archway receive you into this division of the garden . Notice that though there are few flowers to be seen , there is a raft of stunner and stake thanks to the wide range of colors andtexturesof foliage , including manyconifers , which will await skillful every day of the year .

The garden track flatus past apricot bearded flag ( Irishybrid , bearded group , Zones 3–8 ) and ask in you to take the air on and see what other ravisher this garden has to offer .

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