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Living Leaves
T hough you’ll never hear your plants sighing as you walk past, they’re actually breathing in and out all the time. Tiny pores in the leaf surfaces take in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen, the opposite of the way we use air. In fact, plants create the oxygen we breathe.
It’s not just your imagination when you notice that your garden always looks great after a rain. Plants seem to grow an inch or more after a soaking shower, even if you’ve been watering regularly and foliage is lush. That’s because plants can drink, as well as breathe, through their leaves. A rain shower washes clean the pores of the leaves and refreshes the plant, as well as giving it a needed drink.
Keeyla’s World
“A painting you can walk into” is how artist and designer Keeyla Meadows describes her garden in Albany, Calif., just north of San Francisco. Known for her whimsical landscapes that blend the real and the imaginary, Keeyla used raised beds and trellises to visually enlarge her 50- by 50-foot “work of art,” then strategically positioned her own sculpture and ceramics to delight the eye at every level. A stylized copper arch of larger-than-life morning glories divides the Zone 9 plot into distinct areas, while glazed-ceramic pavers bestow brilliant color on paths of brick and stone.
The Love Shack
BY ZAZEL LOVÉN AND LISA QUEZADA
Sheep called it home until an artist turned this small barn into a hideaway for gardening, sketching, and snuggling.
Over their lifetime, the outbuildings on a property may go through many incarnations. This barn turned cottage in a quiet corner of northeastern Connecticut has had such a life. Originally a bull pen on the 1780 farm, it became a place for the current owners’ children to house their prizewinning sheep. Now that the kids are grown, owner Jilly Walsh decided it would be the perfect spot for a hideaway. Elements were recycled from the main house — the window came from the kitchen and old shutters form a wall of the terrace.
Urban Paradise
BY BART BOEHLERT
Away from the noise and the crowds of New York, behind the narrow 1846 brownstone where I live with my partner, Ted, lies our little garden — a patch of green and dirt that offers gentle relief from the hard pavement and concrete of the city. The neighbors on either side rarely use their gardens, so ours is a quiet one. A huge old tree (one of the oldest, they say, in Greenwich Village) rises nearby, sheltering the area with drama and history.
A Pot for Every Place
Container-grown plants fill in the gaps with style
Thanks to containers, just about anyone can have a garden. Urban residents, for example, put down roots on small patios or balconies, using potted trees and vines to screen views and soften skylines. Even apartment dwellers without a garden plot nurture miniature flower beds in window boxes safely secured to sills and ledges. Gardeners with room to spare reap the rewards of containers as well: In August and September, when many flowering plants are past their prime, potted annuals and perennials can be relied upon to extend summer color right into autumn. Container-grown succulents and small trees are also likely to be moved from here to there, filling in gaps as the season progresses. (Some gardeners practice horticultural sleight of hand, sinking their pots right into the ground.) At the end of a path or in the elbow of a curved walkway, potted bloomers and shrubs serve as focal points, lending sculptural interest and a dash of wit (for added height, containers may be set on bricks camouflaged with ground cover or cascading plants). In island beds, a single antique urn becomes an eye-catching centerpiece; smaller pots and recycled containers, on the other hand, look best displayed in groups, near the base of an outdoor staircase, for example.
Gardeners Restore Our World
Join Gardener’s efforts to create community gardens across America
What a wonderful way to start the new millennium — by creating something that will G.R.O.W. for generations to come. We can’t think of a more fitting time to announce a program that is dear to the hearts of Gardener
readers and staff alike — one that helps to create community gardens.
A verdant garden lies outside the greenhouse door
B. Smith heads to her potager to welcome family and
friends.
Barbara Smith is spending a good deal of time in her garden lately, as fans
of the restaurateur’s syndicated television show, B. Smith with Style,
are happily aware. Often, the weekly compendium of cooking, fashion, decorating,
and self-improvement topics is taped right in Barbara’s own beachfront backyard
in Sag Harbor, N.Y. On the show, just-picked tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplants,
ON THE INSIDE with Jacqueline Hériteau To Be Changed
We wander through the gardens at Brookside and the American Horticultural Society’s River Farm to smell the roses and gather beauty secrets — like how tying asters together with soft twine makes a statement in height and color — and how a fountain of tall variegated grasses can soften a brick corner.
Walking the grounds at Monticello you have an experience of a different order. Yes, on a clear day the 360-degree view from Thomas Jefferson’s “little mountain” is extraordinary. Yes, the 1,000-foot long vegetable terrace is an ode to the beauty of beans staked on weathered poles, to silver artichokes, aromatic herbs, and to the talent of its present curator, Maggie Stemann. Yes, this exquisite little mansion is beautifully restored, and the gift shop has been stocked with taste.
THE EARTH : My Russian Adventures
The life of an organic farmer may be hard at times, but it certainly is not dull. Since 1991, my husband and I have traveled in Russia on four occasions, meeting farmers and gardeners. In the process, we’ve had great adventures, met lots of really wonderful people and made dear friends. We volunteer our time for The Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI), an exceptionally effective non-governmental organization in San Francisco.
Mount Vernon: Moonlight Tours and an Old Fashion Christmas
Step back in history and enjoy the 18th-century sights, sounds and scents of the holiday season at George Washington’s plantation home. The “Holidays at Mount Vernon” program is held daily from December 1 through January 6, 1996, including Christmas and New Year’s Day. In the Mansion, guides will introduce guests to the custom of the “Christmas Pye,” describe Washington’s family holiday traditions and direct visitors to the rarely-seen third floor. Outside, guests are welcomed around a bonfire for complimentary cookies and hot cider. This year, the Holiday program opens with “Mount Vernon by Moonlight” -
