Linked Garden Rooms

Linked Garden Rooms: After

Over the past 15 years this small plot (80' x 130') has developed from a standard suburban landscape of grass, asphalt driveway and foundation plantings into a series of garden rooms. We removed the driveway and installed a brick parking area and walk in front of the house.

The narrow area (10') between the fence and the left side of the house became a wildflower walk leading to a new perennial bed and an expanded lawn behind the house. The garage became a tool shed with an attached vine house/potting shed.

The existing foundation planting was incorporated into a new evergreen hedge which both frames the front lawn and encloses the private side yard. The arborvitae sentinels allow passersby a glimpse of the bright flower garden without compromising the owner’s privacy.

Passing through a hidden gap in the hedge, one enters the rear yard to find a tiny meadow and orchard of peach and cherry trees, compost piles, raised beds with perennials and vegetables, and a sitting area under an old apple tree.

Linked Garden Rooms: Plan Garden Plan

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Infant hedge Infant Hedge

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Parking Parking area and walk

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Walk Wildflower walk

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Drive Removed After removing driveway

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Arbor Vitae Arbor Vitae Entrance

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Early Summer Early Summer

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Midsummer Midsummer

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Globe Thistle Globe thistle and rudbeckia

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Asters Late summer asters

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Orchard Orchard in Spring

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Apple tree Apple tree, Summer

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Raised Beds, Summer Raised beds, Summer

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Raised Beds, October Raised beds, October

 

Linked Garden Rooms: House view View from house, October

 

Linked Garden Rooms: Winter Winter

 

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