A Birds Eye View

April 12, 2010 · Filed under design · Tagged flora glade, kitchen garden, lime walk, serviceberry allee, yew garden

Lucky birds!

It all started with a comment by Wendy on my Sissinghurst post.  She mentioned how nice it was to get a birds eye view.  She had been commenting on the views from Vitas tower in Sissinghurst . I don’t have a tower (I wish) that I could look out and survey my garden, but I do have a roof (flat, luckily).

So, on the weekend, I climbed out and risked life and limb, in order to get you (and me) these pictures. I didn’t get to close to the edge, not sure how much weight it can support, lol.

Lets start by looking at the street, this way is north. You pull in the driveway and head to the front door. Can you see where my path is going to go, between the Emerald cedars, all along the length of the house, heading east and curving south to the front door.

This is a lovely old horse chestnut tree, we call it the Whalloping Willow after Harry Potter. It gives us a lot of privacy in the library and the master bedroom.

Just ready to make a right hand turn at the big rock.

Here is the east view.

When I sit in my front parlour and look out this is my view. This is one of only three garden views from my house. The front parlour has a lovely bay window and I have to come up with something amazing to look at from it. You can see it is a narrow spot, quite shady and backed by a very tall cedar hedge. This is the original sidewalk from the street to the front door, nobody uses it! For some reason the previous owner planted a line of maple trees to the south of the sidewalk. They are great now, but I am not sure what will happen in a few years when they get huge.

Turning to the west, (I want to save the south view to the end) you can see my driveway.

 Ignore the very large trailer in the driveway, it belongs to my neighbour and it is there temporarily. You can see it is a very large drive, I am thinking I will turn it into a parking courtyard. From the lilacs,and blue spruce (at the top of the picture, the blue spruce is hidden behind the trailer), I am planning  on bringing a hedgerow line along the street in both directions, just leaving enough room for a car to exit and enter. The last of the snow is between the pile of wood, still not cut up from the tree that blew done in the summer, you can read about it here, and the pile of wood chips that remain from the branches being chipped.

Ah, the south. This is my main garden, where it all happens. It is divided into three parts. The first on the east side, is nothing but lawn, at the moment. It is reserved for a lap pool. But right now, we call it the Croquet Lawn, guess why, because we play croquet on it, (and bocce).

The middle section has my Lime Walk,

you can see the birdbath at the end. This space will have some focal point, and there is a very young cedar hedge planted in front of the tree, so it will have a green back. There is also a shrubby tree growing from its roots, that has to be dug out.

 The Yew Garden (now just a very empty space) and the Serviceberry Allee.

The Allee is going to be extended all the way to the Kitchen Garden in the summer. You can just see the second line of yews underneath the tree.

 

The final third consists of the Kitchen Garden at the back with the Flora Glade between it and the garage.

And for all you doubters, who insisted the Deliverance house could not be that bad,

you were wrong!

 

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