Catskill Gardens Photo Stream
With so many obstacles—deer, groundhogs, rabbits, bears, cold long winter, unpredictable weather, etc.—gardening in the Catskills is not a piece of cake. But with a little perseverance and patience, the rewards are spectacular!
I stopped by this charming cottage where we put in this little garden last year and was delighted to see how great it looked. The clients are great and have been taking care of it so I hadn't seen it in a while. We are going to do more work on this place when the septic is replace but I love the building and setting. If you scroll to the last 2 photos you can see what it looked like before we started. I think it is really fun to see the "befores" viburnumgardens
I can’t really take much credit for this but sometimes when I go to our front door I am just awed; actually, it would be quite different without years of tweaking and stewardship but nature gets the real kudos.
My little veggie garden with a few flowers is ALIVE!! Can’t believe it! HappyMonday! #springgardening #seedlings #tinygarden #catskillgardens #mountaingirl #mycyclinglifestyle
opulence defined #wisteria #wisteriahysteria #drippingflowers #arbor #hudsonvalleybeauty #catskillgardens
Textures: #icehouse #donstathamblog #totemfarmgarden #catskillgardens #julygarden
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Garden house doing what garden house is to do. #snakethorne #gardenhouse #diygreenhouse #reclaimedwindows #window house #hudsonvalleygardens #hudsonvalleygardener #greatnortherncatskills #catskillgardens
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Taking in the last of our beloved tropicals before the inevitable frost that will come. But for right now I’m really pleased with how this container at the red house filled out and how the vignette developed around it. Turning a huge steel duct into the centerpiece of our garden is just one of the fun ah-ha things we cultivate constantly around our home and gardens to great effect. .
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🐝POLLINATOR FLOWERS 🐝
Cercis canadensis espalier trained on studio outbuilding. #donstathamblog #totemfarmgarden #espalier #houseforsale #catskilldreamteam #cerciscanadensis #catskillgardens
3rd year for this very informal treatment of this country home; complete with coffee cup and dogs. I am very happy with it
The Annual Andes Library Benefit Garden Tour is this Saturday, 8/6 between 11 and 4. Garden tours are that greatest way to spend a day exploring different neighborhoods, seeing people's properties and some varied and beautiful gardens. This tour has some new gardens this year and some that I am very excited to visit. A couple I have been admiring from the road for years.
Garden Conservancy Open Days - 7/6: My garden and 4 other glorious gardens in our remote Delaware County are open to see this coming weekend. You have to go to the Garden Conservancy website and search for the date and location and register but you can do it!!! It will be a great way to spend a Saturday in the Catskills. Peggy (my amazing wife) may even make some goodies to sit and enjoy on the porch (which is our favorite viewing spot).
I know is it odd to open a post with a mass of gooseneck loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides), the dreaded plant that I warn everyone to keep out of their garden. However, in a situation where I want a dense groundcover where there is nothing else that will require little to no weeding, it is great. it will hold a bank, looks good all season and even providing beautiful fall color. My clients call it the soufflé because it often has a fluffy/lumpy top that looks, well, like a soufflé.
I rarely post images of brand new installations but this one is really special and I am very excited about it. We got the opportunity to design and install a beautiful landscape for a village property with a great client. We got to start with a blank canvas and create paths, a courtyard, patio, pergola with swing and several matrix plantings that I can't wait to see in their full glory. There will be multiple framings for sculptures. No, the hose holder is not a sculpture.
Golden light shining on all the new grasses and shrubs we picked up pondside_nursery for the backbone of the new red house gardens.
Got a SHAGGY HEART? Trim & clean that baby up. There’s only 3 weeks left for that “Summer Romance”. Get with it. #topiary #topiarygarden #heartsabound #showyourlove #catskillgardens #foodforthought True
We did a huge project last year with many walls, paths, steps and naturalistic plantings. We are not taking care of this property so I don't get opportunities to photograph it. I stopped by on a whim on the last day of September in the middle of the day and took a bunch of photos. There is so much going on and it is hard to capture. I was so excited see it looking so spiffy.
Our design page is now live on our website! We're proud to offer unique and adventurous garden designs for your upstate home or business. This is a photo of a blue and white perennial border I designed here in the Catskills taken in mid spring. Follow the link in our profile to explore and learn more about our garden services! 👆
some views of my spiral garden, not really yet in bloom, but very fluffy. it was supposed to be low maintenance, ha! That was a fantasy.
some shots of my garden that always seduces me into loving it in the afternoon light.
This saturated and stormy August has been a bit of a damper on our foraging & outdoor work but our gardens are absolutely thriving in it. The tropicals we interplanted with the grasses and shrubs are bursting with all the humidity and moist soil. The Red House looks like it’s beginning to be engulfed by the garden and that’s just the way we like it. .
freshly painted and patiently waiting. we have already been working for a month sneaking in days here and there, but it looks like the elusive spring of the Catskills has given us a few more days of rest. I’ll take it, even though I’m bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and ready to get started for real.
we have been working on this property in stages over the past decade. The clients are lovely people have become really good friends. I was just realizing that the second visit each season is one of the best because the spring cleanup is done and things are growing in; it is such a thrill to be able to fluff it up and make it look great. This one is particularly fun. How about those geranium macrorrhizums? 😬
we were engaged by these lovely folks to help revamp and maintain their terraced garden. over the years we added a lot things, removed some things, pruned and moved stuff around. we added some rocks and gravel here and there. they typically have a lot of deer damage but when we visited the other day, it just looked great and I was inspired to take some photos and share them. we did not design the garden or build the walls but I think the overall affect is really nice.
since we have been designing, installing and stewarding landscapes/gardens for 20 years now, I am constantly overwhelmed by how they evolve. this willow walk is just an amazing example. I actually did visualize it becoming a canopy from the beginning but it is had to believe how amazingly it has transformed. We just put in a variety of carex under them to get some soft green texture and for me to see how these different varieties behave there: (for geeks only) albicans, eburnea, radiata and montana.
I submitted one of my client's gardens to be included in the Garden Conservancy's Open Days roster this year. I was happy when it was accepted but stunned when one of the photos I sent with the application was chosen for the cover. Up here in rural Delaware County NY, we don't have a lot of gardens on the tour but this year our tour is on July 6th (a nice 4th of July activity) and we have 5 wonderful gardens on the tour. It might be worth a visit.
One of these things is not like the other... 😂 #puppyvisitor #chiweenie #chiweeniesofinstagram #tobias #homegrown #catskillgardens
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To make a praire it takes a clover and one bee.
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
if bees are few.
Dandelions are among the first sips of spring available to our bee friends, and largely set the tone for how the season will go. No dandelions, no bees, no pollination, no garden.
Wait for these guys to go to seed before mowing or pulling, the bees will thank you by energetically pollinating your garden and giving you a bountiful harvest. 🙏👌
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Go the Andes Library in the heart of the village to make your donation and pick up your map. Be sure to come see me at my garden. Coming to my garden first would be a great start.
See you soon --- Mel
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Don't miss my dear friends' garden on Gunhouse Hill Road as well as all of my other friends' gardens on display.
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My client did this beautiful barn renovation so that the "barn bed" that has daffodils, daylilies and Black-eyed Susans providing a succession of blooms, really sings, especially tiered with the goosies. We just extended the barn trifecta bed to the end of the new wall.
The meadowish treatment, clearly visible in the 5th photo was an experiment with interspersing different grasses and forbs into an existing hay field to see if we could get something nice without having to kill everything first and go through the whole meadow creation drama. It is OK I think.
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Thank you leokoenigart
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PLEASE SCROLL THOUGH TO SEE THE BEGINNING AND MIDDLE; forgive me for shouting but . . .
#maturegardens
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