The Gardens at Ashland Hall
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GROW It is one thing to put a landscape plan to paper. It is another thing to see it to fruition. With these photos, I show you the progress of the installation of our gardens. After reading (literally) 100s of gardening magazines, inspiration finally hit me when I was in the bath one day. I drew my initial concept on the bathtub wall with the children's bathtub crayons. The finished garden is surprisingly quite close to this initial idea.
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| I tweaked the concept and put in on graph paper to scale so I could present it to landscape companies to bid on the project. |
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| The design is put on the dirt with spray paint. |
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| After initial grading and amending of the soil, the first project was the installation of the raised stone planter - the anchor of the garden. |
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| The stone planter is complete but the back yard becomes a muddy mess, hindering further progress. |
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| To help with the water and mud problems we began installing a series of drains which did solve the problem and construction could begin again. |
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| Adding good soil as a foundation of the lawn and flower beds. |
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| Once the ground was graded the back yard lawn went in. |
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| The side alley is put nearly done. Landscape fabric is put down before the gravel goes on top. |
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| This side is now all laid out and the beds get more soil and mulch and the paths get gravel. |
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| Then work on the rose garden begins. All beds are outlined with tumbled stone for easier maintenance. |
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| The arborvitae trees go in back of the gardens to eventually create a "castle wall" to separate the formal gardens from the woodland gardens (which is now the spot for the tropical gardens). |
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| And now, photos of the finished garden (no, the pool is not
ours). The rose garden. |
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| The lawn with stone planter |
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| The other side (the arbor is at the end of the side alley garden) |
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| The formal garden and the woodland garden |
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| The hydrangea alley. I love hydrangeas and will plant about a dozen varieties. |
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| The end. Whew! |
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