August 2005 – Ellis Hollow

Carol and Marc

This is Carol and Marc’s second season in the country, but you’d think they’d been gardening all their lives. Everything has a bit of an artistic touch to it.

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The fire bowl doubles as a table. Ornamental grasses planted this year will encircle the area. Marc’s miscellaneous art projects are here and there.

Baxter scampers by the vegetable garden. An old baseball serves as the handle on the gate.

Marc’s latest project — a trellis too handsome to put plants on.

Update: Visit Marc’s website. He crafts unique bowls and more from intersting hunks of wood. They make great gifts.

Marcia’s Garden

Here are a few shots from my friend and co-worker Marcia’s garden. There’s a nice profile of her garden at: Explore Cornell Home Gardening

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Proof a vegetable garden can look good, too.

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Marcia’s main border, getting more light now that the Norway maple has come out.

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Yeah, our water gardens do look remarkably similar. She made hers first, if that matters.

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Hypertufa and some verbascums I gave her last year.

Fall scene

More miscellaneous art stuff, a fall scene out back from a year or two ago.

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Nigella

An older PhotoShopped image I did a couple years ago. I lost the Nigella, but I still have the image.

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‘Princess Di’ rose

This is one of my latest PhotoShopped images. The poor rose is one that was given to Elly when we lived in Cortland as a gift from a mother she helped deliver. I abused it there, moved it here, and have continued to abuse it. Wherever I put it, it always gets smothered by neighboring perennials, and it’s never gotten more than a foot high nor had more than a couple stems. But every now and then, I’ll notice it’s struggled to put out a flower or two, and they’re really nice.

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