{"id":390,"date":"2008-05-29T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=390"},"modified":"2008-05-29T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T00:04:22","slug":"marcias-garden-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Marcia&#8217;s garden revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_withalliumsx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia with alliums\" SRC=\"images\/mes_withalliumsx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=18\">first posts<\/a> (Aug. 2005) was about the garden of my friend and coworker Marcia.  She needed some environmental portraits shot for a feature about her on another website, so I stopped by for a quick visit a week ago.  I couldn&#8217;t help but wander around and shoot some more pix after the portraits were done.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_overviewx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia's garden\" SRC=\"images\/mes_overviewx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While some trees have been removed to let in some light and many small details have changed, the bones are mostly the same.  From this angle (above, from a second-story window), it&#8217;s a well-designed flower garden with a vegetable garden in back separated by a fence.  The new bed on the right was inspired by an article in a recent issue of Garden Design about a Charleston, S.C., garden (see &#8220;Southern Classic,&#8221; May 2008, image on page 39) that features a lawn area &#8216;pinched&#8217; by beds at the far end to create some separation between different areas.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_veggieviewx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia's garden\" SRC=\"images\/mes_veggieviewx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the opposite angle (above), you can see the second face of Marcia&#8217;s layout:  A functional veggie garden with some funky ornamentation.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_water_gardenx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia's garden\" SRC=\"images\/mes_water_gardenx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This small water garden also provides some separation between the flowers and the food.  You need to walk around it to get to the entrance arch.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_columnx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia's garden\" SRC=\"images\/mes_columnx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This column provides a focus in the round bed in the center of the veggie garden, as well as being the anchoring lighthouse at the far end the garden&#8217;s axis.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_blue_bottlesx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia's garden\" SRC=\"images\/mes_blue_bottlesx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing Marcia and I share it the love of the blue bottles &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_saxx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia's garden\" SRC=\"images\/mes_saxx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and funky ornamentation.  (I&#8217;m thinking Les Quatres Vents only smaller.)<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_leftborderx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia's garden\" SRC=\"images\/mes_leftborderx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A closer view of the left border from above.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_black_irisx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia's garden\" SRC=\"images\/mes_black_irisx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This nearly black iris came from a small iris farm nearby that went out of business last year.  The rhizomes were free for the digging, but not labeled.  (I got several buckets too.)  Adds to the surprises in the garden this spring, waiting to see what the new irises are going to look like when they bloom.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_purple_iriscux1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia's garden\" SRC=\"images\/mes_purple_iriscux500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the name of this iris.  But it seems like it&#8217;s everywhere.  I&#8217;ve got some that are identical or very similar that came with the last house that I lived in.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/mes_rhodiex1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"marcia's garden\" SRC=\"images\/mes_rhodiex500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rhodie flowers starting to pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my first posts (Aug. 2005) was about the garden of my friend and coworker Marcia. She needed some environmental portraits shot for a feature about her on another website, so I stopped by for a quick visit a week ago. I couldn&#8217;t help but wander around and shoot some more pix after the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marcia&#8217;s garden revisited&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9,10,21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-other-gardens","category-perennials","category-veggies","category-water-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}