Create Your Best Garden Ever Create Your Best
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Create Your Best Garden Ever Create Your Best
Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications ® les: Collectib Vintaegrey Pott e 58 see pag ® ® 75 Easy Ideas Create Your Best Garden Ever Brighten the Shade with Fuchsias Grow Carrots in Containers Plant this Border Spring 2010 Vol. 19, No. 2 $4.99 U.S. www.BHG.com Display until May 18 BHG SIP Blue Checkout See page 38 Find us on Facebook Enter o ur 12 Contents th Annua lG Awardarden s See pag e 11 Country Gardens® Spring 2010 Gardens & Plants 34 The Perfect Country Garden An enthusiastic novice travels to England for her horticultural education with the greats and returns home to her Connecticut garden to trust her own finely honed design instincts. 40 Tulip Time Meet a Dutch couple who tend two deep and narrow gardens packed with tulips and other reliable spring-blooming bulbs. Plus, check out our roundup of the best tulips for the country garden. 40 60 48 Grow Carrots in Containers Wait until you see how easy it is to grow delicious carrots in country-fresh containers. We include step-by-step instructions for planting a pretty but practical pot for a crop of carrots. 54 Better Together Find out how a Washington couple combined her love of fragrant, old-fashioned flowers with his passion for texture and foliage. Together, they’ve created a garden that’s the best of both worlds. 64 Fabulous Fuchsias Justin Marotta of Possum Run Greenhouse in Ohio has created a Noah’s Ark for fuchsias and tends more than 260 varieties. 72 21 Ideas Worth Stealing We asked garden design expert Brian Minter of Vancouver to share some of the secrets behind his spectacular show gardens. 78 Living Art Gallery Explore an organic garden in Vermont that inspires the creative spirit of a world-renowned painter whose works capture the brilliance of this rural landscape. Decorating & Inspiration 60 Garden Collectibles: Bybee Pottery Show off bouquets from the garden with pretty pottery that’s been made by the same family in the same log shed in Kentucky and in about the same way since 1809. 84 Hats Off to Spring Check out our collection of vintage bonnets that have been recycled into pretty cachepots for gift plants—just in time for Mother’s Day. 90 Fringe Benefits Looking for inexpensive ideas for creating a boundary between your lawn and garden? We’ve got five solutions using everyday objects. Search for Country Gardens. We want to hear about your country garden, or just stop by and become a fan. COVER: Photography by André Baranowski. See the story on page 34. Country Gardens Spring 2010 64 by Name photographer Name produced by Name 18 26 92 Cooking & Entertaining 92 Life’s a Picnic Celebrate the season of renewal by getting your friends and family together for a spring picnic in the garden. Grab our make-ahead recipes and head out for some fresh air. Departments 9 Slow Lane Karen Weir-Jimerson tackles encounters of a weedy nature and learns to embrace the charming side of stinging nettles. 12 Plantings Plant expert Ruth Rogers Clausen explains why trillium may possibly be the most cherished of spring ephemeral wildflowers. 14 Backyard Almanac Our resident nature lover Anne Raver wonders if it’s possible to feed our feathered friends and keep the thugs away. 18 Weekend Gardener Find out how to transform vintage chairs into colorful planted and elevated displays of your favorite blooms. 22 Design Notebook The Little Herb House’s Lisa Treadaway shares a simple design for a four-square herb garden that’s perfect for small spaces. 26 Garden Shop Which eco-friendly lawn mower is right for you? 30 30 Breaking Ground Short on space but want to attract butterflies to stop by for a sip of nectar? We’ve got three easy container plans. 98 Gardener’s Bookshelf A roundup of our favorite recent books. 100 Grassroots Our regional garden editors share their observations on their favorite ways to save time and money in the garden. Reflections Shopping 6 Editor’s Note 112 Over the Garden Gate 102 Buyer’s Guide 105 Reader Shopping Attention Retailers! Interested in carrying Better Homes and Gardens® gardening specials in your shop? Please e-mail [email protected] for more information. Country Gardens Spring 2010 By Carole Ottesen Produced by Jon Carloftis Photography by Rob Cardillo Garden Collectibles: Bybee Pottery Colorful stoneware offers a link to pioneer days in central Kentucky When Bonnie Tanner of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, finds a piece of Bybee pottery, she does more than acquire another beautiful object—she adds a treasured bit of Kentucky history to her collection. Bybee pottery “is made by the oldest existing pottery west of the Alleghenies,” she says. Bybee Pottery, in the rural town of Bybee in the hills of Madison County, began after clay deposits were found near the Cornelison farm on land that had been granted to an ancestor, Conrad Cornelison Jr., for service in the Revolutionary War. In 1809, a descendant, Walter Cornelison, built the great log barn with dirt floor and sturdy walnut beams that still houses the pottery’s equipment and business. In its long existence, the log building has sheltered six generations of Cornelisons as they turned yellow Kentucky clay into more than 100 sizes and shapes of stoneware. Country Gardens Spring 2010 58 Opposite: A wooden bench from an old train station showcases Bonnie Tanner’s collection of jade-colored Bybee vases. This photo: This vase with ornate handles probably had two or three coats of glaze. It holds a bouquet of lilies, mums and trailing green love-lies-bleeding. Below: Part of Bonnie’s collection of pink to red stoneware is arranged in front of the brick wall of the old smokehouse, an outbuilding belonging to her 1856 house, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Right: “The brown pieces really look metallic,” Bonnie says of the vases holding deep purple anemones, irises in bud, and statice. Far right: The lime green of bells of Ireland and button and spider mums contrasts smartly with Bybee blue glazes, including “a cobalt … black as midnight.” For more information, see the Buyer’s Guide on page 102. If you multiply hundreds of kinds of stoneware by six generations on Cornelisons by 200 years, you get thousands upon thousands of pieces of pottery. In addition, there are the products of other Kentucky potteries, as well as old Bybee pottery and new Bybee pottery. Bonnie has trained her eye to recognize the Selden Bybee pottery. “You can almost tell it by the feel and the glaze,” she says. Her collection now numbers more than 60 pieces of the richly glazed stoneware. Made by hand of Kentucky’s very earth, “Bybee pottery is one of the jewels created in our state,” she says. For more information, see the Buyer’s Guide on page 102. ON THE BYBEE TRAIL Bonnie has found Selden Bybee’s signature high-fired, double-glazed pieces “at flea markets, antiques shops, and on eBay.” Once, Bonnie says, everyone thought this was just common old stuff. “You could pick up pieces of Bybee fairly reasonably,” she says. “Now, they’re expensive: $500 or so each.” Bybee pottery’s popularity also has to do with the pride Kentuckians have in their state. Bonnie primarily collects Selden Bybee, made during a blip in the long Bybee history. “Selden was a salesman for the Bybee Pottery, selling in New York in 1925. He went off on his own—that’s how Selden Bybee came about. It was made for just two to three years, from 1927 to 1929. He used the kiln at the brickyard in Lexington.” Those years coincided with a period when traditional Kentucky pottery came under the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Potters began turning out pieces of extraordinary grace that combined traditional functionality with forms admired since ancient times. The potter identified his distinctive work as “Selden Bybee,” enclosing the name in a rough outline of the state of Kentucky. Country Gardens Spring 2010 60 Selden Bybee’s jadecolored glaze sets off the deep pink of million bells, mums, and branches of redbud, cut from Bonnie’s garden. Country Gardens Spring 2010 61 Buyer’s Guide Compiled by Renee Freemon Mulvihill Resources 30 For information about gardening products and services in this issue, contact the sources listed here. The source is unknown for products not listed. Plantings: Trilliums Pages 12–13 Trillium sources include: Fraser’s Thimble Farms; 250/537-5788; thimblefarms.com. Asiatica; 717/938-8677; asiaticanursery.com. Eastern Plant Specialties; 732/382-2508; easternplant.com. Backyard Almanac Pages 14–16 For more from Anne Raver, consider: Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures by Ann Raver; Vintage; 1996; 300 pages. To purchase, visit amazon.com. Weekend Gardener: Sitting Pretty Pages 18–21 Designer—Renee Buchhauser, At Home With Laurie Ann, 2855 Perry Rd. San Diego, CA 92106; 619/758-9981; laurieann.com; e-mail: [email protected]. Design Notebook: Plant a Four-Square Herb Garden Pages 22–24 The Little Herb House. 5800 Holland Church Rd., Raleigh, NC 27603; 919/772-3543; littleherbhouse.com. Stone—Tennessee Buff Ashlar—Charles Luck Stone Center; 800/898-5825; charlesluck.com. 48 Breaking Ground: Butterfly Containers Pages 30–33 Plants—Proven Winners; 877/865-5818; provenwinners.com. For more information on attracting butterflies: National Wildlife Federation Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Backyard Wildlife by David Mizejewski; Creative Homeowners; 2004. To purchase, visit amazon.com. Tulip Time Pages 40–47 De Heerenhof, Veldstraat 12a, NL-6227 SZ Maastricht; +31(0)43-4084800; heerenhof.nl; e-mail: [email protected]. For more information about their bed-and-breakfast, visit bedandbreakfast.nl/heerenhof. Better Together Pages 54–59 Christianson’s Nursery and Greenhouses, 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon, WA 98273; 800/585-8200; christiansonsnursery.com. Garden Collectibles: Bybee Pottery Pages 60–63 Bybee Pottery, 610 Waco Loop Rd., P.O Box 555, Waco, KY 40385, is on Kentucky Highway 52 between Richmond and Irvine at milepost 21, 8 miles east of Richmond; 859/369-5350. Grow Carrots in Containers Pages 48–53 Plant sources include: ‘Bull’s Blood’ beet: Burpee—800/888-1447; burpee.com. ‘Purple Haze’, and ‘White Satin’ carrots: Johnny’s Selected Seeds—877/564-6697; johnnyseeds.com. ‘Babette French’, ‘Romeo’, and Sunshine Mix carrots: Renee’s Garden Seeds—888/880-7228; reneesgarden.com. ‘Dragon’ carrot and ‘Painted Lady’ runner beans: Seed Savers Exchange—563/382-5990; seedsavers.org. Containers—Fern Hill Gifts & Quilts, 103 220th Trail, South Amana, IA 52334. Paint—SW 6467/Kendal Green and SW6753/ Jargon Green—Sherwin-Williams; sherwin-williams.com. 60 continued on page 104 Country Gardens Spring 2010 102 Buyer’s Guide continued from page 102 78 Little Bit of Bybee, a retail store owned by Cornelison family cousin Ron Stambaugh, is located at 11617 Main St. in Middletown, KY 40243. To place a mail order, call 502/245-0557, fax 502/245-0656, or e-mail [email protected]. Fabulous Fuchsias Pages 64–71 Possum Run Greenhouses, Inc., 5384 Possum Run Rd., Bellville, OH 44813; 419/892-2770; possumrungreenhouse.com. Amish baskets— Annie Schar, Annie’s Amish Baskets; 800/338-1121; AnniesAmishBaskets.com. Vintage flowerpots—Farmhouse 1807, 20637 S. State Hwy. 21, Caledonia, MO 63631; 573/779-3869; Farmhouse1807.com. 21 Ideas Worth Stealing Pages 72–77 Minter Gardens is open daily from late March to mid-October. It’s located 90 minutes east of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, just off Highway 1 at 52892 Bunker Rd., Rosedale, BC. Guided tours of the 32-acre garden are available by appointment. There are two restaurants, a plant and gift shop, a conservatory banquet room, and a wedding pavilion. For more information, call 888/6468377 or e-mail [email protected]. You can take a virtual tour at mintergardens.com. The mailing address is Box 40, Chilliwack, BC V2P 6H7. Living Art Gallery Pages 78–83 Cider Hill Gardens and Gallery, 1747 Hunt Rd., Windsor, VT 05089; 800/232-4337; ciderhillgardens.com. Fringe Benefits Pages 84–85 Aluminum cookie cutters, fruit-crate ends, license plates, salad plates—online auctions and collectibles merchants. Annuals—Proven Winners; 877/865-5818; provenwinners.com. Terra-cotta pots—Craftware Pottery and Baskets (wholesale only); 800/311-7491; craftwareusa.com. E-mail: [email protected] to find a retailer near you. The Perfect Country Garden Pages 86–91 Landscape Design—Pine Meadow Gardens, Inc., 237 Old Waterbury Rd., Southbury, CT 06488; 203/264-6066. Grassroots: Pages 100–101 Sources for the Midwest region include: For more information on The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Plant Evaluation Notes, visit chicagobotanic.org. Under the “Conservation” menu, click on “Plant science and conservation,” then “Environmental horticulture” and “Plant evaluation.” For more information on Nebraska Statewide Arboretum’s GreatPlants, visit arboretum .unl.edu and click on “Great plants.” For more information on Missouri Botanical Garden and Powell Gardens’ Plants of Merit program, visit mobot.org and click on “Gardening and horticulture.” For Buffalograss: High Country Gardens; 800/925.9387; highcountrygardens.com. For more information about buffalograss, visit the University of Missouri Extension Web site at extension.missouri.edu and search for “buffalograss.” Sources for the Southwest region include: For wildflower seeds: Wild Seed—P.O. Box 27751, Tempe, AZ 85285; 602/276-3536. Sources for the Southeast region include: For larkspur: Wild Seed Farms—800/848-0078; wildseedfarms.com. For crinum lilies: jenksfarmer.com. For rose of Sharon, and grasses: Nurseries Caroliniana—803/279-2707; nurcar.com. Over the Garden Gate Page 112 For more from John Greenlee, consider: The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn by John Greenlee; Timber Press; 2009; 280 pages. To purchase, visit amazon.com. Country Gardens Spring 2010 104