Catskill Gardens
With so many obstacles—deer, groundhogs, rabbits, bears, cold long winter, unpredictable weather—gardening in the Catskills is not a piece of cake. But with a little perseverance and patience, the rewards are spectacular!
Weather’s beautiful this week if you want to take a drive. Visit the park, listen to the music, enjoy nature. Posted withregram • brunelsculpturegarden Eve Joslyn Madalengoitia’s soundscape is officially up and running! Follow the QR code to listen or download. For the best experience, bring yourself and your ear buds to see all of our budding flowers and trees! #brunelpark #evejoslynmusic #springgardens #catskillgardens #soundscapes
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
Scenes around the garden in morning light. #carterburdengallery #nyartistscircle #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).
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
Kyle trimming the verge by the river. #catskillgardens #hudsonvalleygardens
Flowers, doing their amazing job of bringing joy. Much needed. #garden #catskillgardens #gardener #flowerpots #annuals #flowersofinstagram #flowergarden #colorcomposition #flowerjoy #forthebees #forthehummingbirds #forthesoul
First turnips of the season!
Eve Joslyn Madalengoitia’s soundscape is officially up and running! Follow the QR code to listen or download. For the best experience, bring yourself and your ear buds to see all of our budding flowers and trees! #brunelpark #evejoslynmusic #springgardens #catskillgardens #soundscapes
opulence defined #wisteria #wisteriahysteria #drippingflowers #arbor #hudsonvalleybeauty #catskillgardens
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.
some photos of my garden today. I actually love the late fall garden before it gets beaten down with a wet snow. I went around to numerous clients today to see if they need any touch ups and I was happy just to see them in their natural fall state. some melted plants can be cut back; the Aralia 'Sun King' for instance, and a few other things. it is so interesting that since I have been doing this we went from collecting all of the leaves, cutting nearly everything back and leaving it all tidy, leaving not that much to do in the spring. now I love seeing the natural fall beauty and the spring cleanup is much more satisfying (while being a lot more work 😮)
Discovered the last of the adorable fairy strawberries and ate them on the spot— (hope the strawberry-thieving robins were watching) you must because the moment you pick them they start to lose their magic. Not sure why, but it’s true. #catskillgardens
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 🐝
A drawing about optimism. And about gardening in the Catskills. For chronogram magazine a few years back. Thanks to David Perry and Brian Mahoney. #gardenlife #gardening #animalartist #deer #outdoorplants #yardwork #catskillgardens
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
Garden house doing what garden house is to do. #snakethorne #gardenhouse #diygreenhouse #reclaimedwindows #window house #hudsonvalleygardens #hudsonvalleygardener #greatnortherncatskills #catskillgardens
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
Very fully summer in the Catskills. Come on up and sweat like mad then go jump in the creak across the street 💦
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. .
Catskills Catnip #catsofinstagram #catogram #gingercat #catnip #catskills #catskillgardens
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Tomato bounty at Wildcat Gardens, bumper crop! Mary starts these from seeds and grow lights, amended soil, and supplements, and this is the fruit of her labors! She's a master gardener, I just chill in the chaise lounge drinking lemonade and watch her work! Lucky to have married a farm girl!#catskill nature#catskillsmountains #claryvilleny #claryville #catskillmountains #catskillfarms #catskillgardens
cucumbers & peppers from the glass mountain inn garden picked for our guests delivered by Sloane. We are the olive garden of Catskill Inns "when you're here, you are family." 😉#upstateny #catskills #catskillgardens #cucumbers #flowergarden #kidswhogarden #healthyeating #glassmountaininn
Peony and pollinator. #bumblebees #insects #flowers #peonies #catskillgardens #emersonspa
Is it just me or is gardening an addiction? 🤷🏻♀️🪴🌸
My new rainbow butterfly garden 🌈 🦋 🌺
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.
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.
#scaryplants
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#goosiesandsuzies
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the last photo is my favorite but is says nothing about my garden or design prowess 😊
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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. 🙏👌
#mamagardenco #emilydickinson #bees #pollinatorflowers #catskillgardens #dandelions #upstateny
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