I Want an English Garden

I’ve had a couple of walks through Bryn Mawr this past week because of my dental trial and tribulations. While going to the dentist isn’t something I like, seeing all the English gardens in that town made it a lot nicer.

I’ve liked that style of gardening since I’ve been a kid. Back then, city people put in a lot of flowers and ground cover and not much in the way of grass. I’d love to do something like this with a section of our garden. If I had my druthers, I’d come up with a plan to do the entire front of the house like this. It would stick out like a sore thumb in our cookie cutter neighborhood, but it would be cool. I’d start with a privet hedge along the street to frame in the yard. I’d plant pachysandra underneath. I’d put in lavender, salvia, bluebells, hyacinths, jasmine, and catmint. And I’d pack in those plants so that no grass would grow underneath.

It’s just an idea. But with most actions, they have to start with a dream.

Posted on June 12, 2008
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Comments

  • Albert, I'm a fan of that. We don't water our lawn. I'm thinking that if I can shrink it down, all the better.

    Pinky, that's igh honor coming from the Queen of Philadelphia. ;-)
  • JT, that is too funny. New Yawk is where I'd rah-thah be.
  • JT
  • The Duke and Duchess of Bryn Mawr!
  • great idea! flowers, fruits, veggies, herbs!

    down with lawns! they don't serve much purpose other than soaking up rather precious water.
  • Pax, wouldn't we look good in those red jackets and white jodphurs? I always wanted a velvet hat.
  • how nice, a place to take tea and discuss the morning's fox hunt.
  • Well, a Jersey country garden sounds British, Merci. ;-) I think the cool part about those English garden is that the ground cover chokes out the weeds. I wonder if that takes a hundred years.
  • Merci
    I'd like one of those, too. Unfortunately, I have a Jersey country garden in my front yard: all weeds.
  • Rick, that's what I really meant...I want an Earldom!
  • rick
    The Dukes of Roche.
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