Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Historic Design: David Hicks Door

We could do anything, below, at this portion of the Orchard wall.
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Money was not the hunt.
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Creating a historic garden is the decadence.
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Nearby, century old fig bushes were thriving at Long Barn.
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Overdose on a Theme, was the design rule followed.  
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Notice the 1st major choice, before the figs?
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Tara Turf.  Vintage meadow, and pollinator habitat, increasing yields of any crop grown.
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Another design choice, below ?  No cobblestone/brick edging.  Meadow meeting gravel.
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First design choice was siting the brick orchard walls & choosing dimensions on axis with a gable of the home.
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Once I saw how close this corner, below, was to the gravel drive, 'I knew'.
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Perfect element of 'wonky', imperfectly perfect.
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Parent fig bushes, below, to the cuttings taken, above, almost died last winter.


This near-kill, above, was too close.  The relief of having taken the cuttings is huge.
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Historically digging, the client learned farmers commonly planted fruit bearing trees/bushes in odd places about their land.  Micro-climates are the difference between death & thriving.  Not only to the fruiting plants but sometimes for livestock & people.  May those days never return.
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Garden & Be Well,   XO T
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Pics taken at jobsite this month.  Door, above, copied from David Hick's garden.  Another garden design rule, Copy the Best.
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Tara Dillard & Associates Design: farm to city pied-a-terre.
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Shaefer Heard Construction, licensed home-builder, renovation - new construction.  Heard's Landscaping a unit of SHC.  3 decades of service.
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NOTE to my gardening friends... look for changes to come. 
Knew before computers/cell phones, sitting in Atlanta traffic on way to a client, 'I must reach a larger audience with the same amount of effort.'   Soon after that epiphany I signed my CBS-TV, and, books contracts on the same day.
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Then I read an article in the NYTimes about something called 'blogging'.  Saved the article for a year before reading it.  Studied all the blogs they mentioned, hired a computer expert they quoted, and attended a blogging seminar.
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Blogging 2.0 has arrived, my knowledge is 1.0.  A believer in copying the best historic gardens across the globe it flows into every arena of life.  Watching Maria Killam grow her career/blog/life over the past 3 years made its impact.  Signed up  for a year's course with her blogging expert, Jon Morrow
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Changes will be slow, plodding is my adored method.  Pulling triggers here/there is spice in the mix.
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What do YOU want?
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Nothing is too small, too big, or too ego crushing to mention.
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Passion lies in sharing what has filled me to the depths of grace, joy & atonement, the best landscapes created over the last 2,000+ years.

Just so you know... 

 I  welcome your input.

2 comments:

Lori Buff said...

The brick on that wall is beautiful, the perfect backdrop...and what’s behind it.
Enhance, don’t hide.

Anonymous said...

That is a new brick wall???? Sheesh!

amazingly beautiful work! I adore "Tara Turf"; it is a hard sell.....why I have no idea! Americans are ridiculous about perfect lawns!

I like when those little daisies bloom in the lawn! (I suppose they are called "weeds"!!!!