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!
Flowers, doing their amazing job of bringing joy. Much needed. #garden #catskillgardens #gardener #flowerpots #annuals #flowersofinstagram #flowergarden #colorcomposition #flowerjoy #forthebees #forthehummingbirds #forthesoul ...
Jane's echinace #catskillgardens #donstathamblog #donstathamgarden #totemfarmgarden ...
On the job companions. #basiliongardens. #ducksofinstagram #catskillgardens ...
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! 👆 ...
Golden light shining on all the new grasses and shrubs we picked up pondside_nursery for the backbone of the new red house gardens. ...
🐝POLLINATOR FLOWERS 🐝
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. 🙏👌
#mamagardenco #emilydickinson #bees #pollinatorflowers #catskillgardens #dandelions #upstateny ...
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. .
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#upstateny #catskills #catskillstyle #catskillgardens #gardendesign #garden #catskillmountains #redhouse #curbappeal #oakhillny #hortandpott #tropicals #perennialgarden ...
we hosted a benefit for a local arts group (The Roxbury Arts Group) this weekend and neither my wife or I took a single photo as we were so busy. we had, of course, spiffed up the garden so I took some photos yesterday as an afterthought. If you scroll to the end you will see my new Sango Kaku which I consider to be a climate change experiment and some picnic tables that we are going to keep to create a picnicking area in the shade.
#augustgarden
#catskillgardens
#landscapephotography
#landscapedesigns ...
Red bud. (Cercis canadensis). #redbudtree #redbudtrees #nativetrees #springflowers #springfever #spring #catskillgardens #catskillmountains ...
And just like that….
#catskillspring #catskillgardens #basiliongardens ...
Summer: #Bettycorningclematis #totemfarmgarden #donstathamblog #campanulalactiflora #catskillgardens ...
#hellebore of the day
#organicgarden #hudsonvalleygardens ##catskillgardens ...
#rijnveldsearlysensation This is always our first #daffodil of the season:) This year it opened April 4th
Followed closely by #narcissus #februarysilver on April 7th
#hudsonvalleygardens #catskillgardens #organicgarden ...
Roof rafters in place! It’s been slow going when it seems like only a few hours go by with out rain for the last couple months. #snakethorne #gardenhouse #timberconstruction #windowhouse #tinyhouse #catskills #greatnortherncatskills #hudsonvalleygardens #catskillgardens ...
We installed this woodland garden about 10 years ago and the clients' maintain it themselves. I stopped by the other day to have a look and was delighted to see how nice it looks.
#woodlandgarden
#catskillgardens
#shadeplants
#landscapedesign
#shadegarden ...
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.
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.
#scaryplants
#dontputhisinyourgarden
#goosiesandsuzies
#renovatedbarn
#landscapedesign
#catskillgardens ...
Fleeting summer: #hydrangeatardica #totemfarmgarden #catskillgardens #donstathamblog #donstathamgarden #Coreopsistripteris #kirengeshomapalmata palmata #layersinthegarden ...
End of June garden. #basiliongardens. #Catskillgardens. #hobartny #peacefulevening ...
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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#catskillmountains #catskills #upstateny #containergarden #containergardening #catskillgardens #tropicalgarden #tropicalgardening #hotplantsforcoolclimates #latesummergarden #autumnstyle #oakhillny #fallgarden #alocasia #castorbean #perennialgarden ...
Chick Charms ‘Golden Nugget’ sparkling with its frosty tips - so delicate yet such a show stopper! #crassuleaceas #hensandchicks #chickcharmsgoldnugget #succulents #hardysucculents #mygarden #frostymorning #gardening #plantgeek #latefallgarden #catskillgardens ...
My little veggie garden with a few flowers is ALIVE!! Can’t believe it! HappyMonday! #springgardening #seedlings #tinygarden #catskillgardens #mountaingirl #mycyclinglifestyle ...
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.
#catskillsmountains
#catskillgardens
#earlyspringgarden
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#Basiliongardens #catskillgardens #delawarecountyny #autumncolors. #hobartny ...
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.
Thank you leokoenigart
#landscapedesign
#villagegarden
#sculpturegarden
#catskillgardens
#leokoenig ...
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.
#spring?
#catskillgardens
#catskilllandscapes
#prettypictures ...
looking the fall gardens!!!!
#fallgarden
#landscape_lovers
#landscapedesignideas
#catskillgardens ...
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).
Don't miss my dear friends' garden on Gunhouse Hill Road as well as all of my other friends' gardens on display.
#gardenconservancy
#gardenconservancyopendays
#gardentour
#exploregardens
#catskillgardens
#julygardens ...
always a crowd pleaser. we are going to do some more work at this property soon so I was there yesterday doing some evaluation and visited with the client. we are both kind of blown away by how lush this garden is.
#ornamentalgrasses
#lotsofgrasses
#cottagegarden
#catskillgardens
#landscapedesign ...
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.
PLEASE SCROLL THOUGH TO SEE THE BEGINNING AND MIDDLE; forgive me for shouting but . . .
#maturegardens
#oldgardens
#willowwalk
#gardenevolution
#catskillgardens
#landscapedesign ...