Our Cherry Tree

[Reinbeau]

I have a weeping cherry in the front yard, it's in full glorious bloom right now!

 

[lupinfarm]

Wow! beautiful! We have two cherries in the orchard and they're both blooming as well (only planted a couple days ago! ... two lapins) i love your knot garden at the front

 

[Reinbeau]

Thank you! The knot garden is slowly developing, I want it to remain tame and somewhat formal. We'll see how it ends up!

 

[vfem]

I love your yard so much it kills me!!!

 

[Debby]

Oh no! Why did I look at that ADORABLE formal garden in your yard!!!! Now I want one, too! Where do I get one of these here DHs I keep hearing y'all talking about. Preferably one who likes mowing lawn and planting trees!

Debby

 

[Empera]

The tree is beautiful, Reinbeau and the same with your.. knot garden? That's what they are called?

Anyways, it's very simplistic and very formal. What do you plan on putting in there?

 

[Reinbeau]

Well, if I had more self control it would be a formal knot garden, with greys and greens woven in an intricate design - but I'm not. One of the reasons I wanted this garden was so I could showcase larger, specimen type herbal plants.

You can't see them yet, but there are four roses, one in each quadrant (they're very small, own root roses, three from Heirloom Garden Roses, and one I took a cutting of from our herb garden up at Elm Bank. All of these roses are fragrant, some only bloom once, that's fine with me - if a rose has no scent it won't be in my garden. I call those four-door roses, and you have to be an old classic car person to understand why I say that!

I want to ring the whole outside with germander to add to the 'formality', I'm not totally certain what else I'm going to put in there.

Between the boxwoods I put a little ferny artemesia, Artemesia pontica, also known as Roman Wormwood. It's going to take a bit of pruning but the feathery grey contrast should look nice between them.

In the foremost left hand quadrant I've got this gorgeous variegated Salad Burnet Sanguisorba minor in there, along with a nice Lovage plant Levisticum officinale, a celery flavored herb that's great in potato salad. In the right-hand bed I put a regular Wormwood, Artemisia absinthium (my mother says no herb garden is complete without one!) and an Angelica, Angelica archangelica, a nice biennial that smells lovely when you rub past it - heck, most herbs smell lovely when you're working with them, that's why I love them so much!

There are some really nice fragrant salvias I'll add, and lots more, I'm sure, as I go along.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Reinbeau, the photo is beautiful, so calm & restrained; it goes so well with the style of your house.

Glad you are using lovage. I'm a great fan of it & have 2 examples which I use as architectural plants (as well as in my cooking) along with my cardoons. I'm having to replace my globe artichokes & angelica because they were strangled by blackberries during a recent illness when I neglected the garden. Still it's back under the green thumb again!

I agree with you about scent in the garden -- so important ! Especially in my case as I quite probably will become virtually blind eventually. Hmmm! So I am preparing now by planting "feely" & "smelly" plants. I hope it is a long way off, but you never know!

Good luck with your plantings!

:rose Hattie :rose

 

[Reinbeau]

I would love to grow artichokes, they are spectacular plants, but that's a struggle around here, best tried in the veggie garden to be able to easily hide the failures. I don't think cardoon grows here, either, but I'll have to check into it!

 

[me&thegals]

Just beautiful! I'm not familiar with weeping cherry. Does it have edible fruit? Seems like lovely bee food, either way!