We’re having a celebration at Gardening Gone Wild: it’s our 9th birthday! When Nan Ondra and I started GGW in July 2007, we never thought about where we would be almost a decade later. We were just two Pennsylvania gardeners and authors with a passion for gardening and a love of perennials and lush overflowing, [...]
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Photographing in a Garden
June 24, 2014 – Posted in: Garden PhotographyWhen you want to photograph a garden get inside it. By this I don’t mean walk off the street and step inside the fence, or move from the backyard patio onto the lawn or path. Immerse yourself in the garden, get under a tree, look through a gate, get behind a bench. By doing this you will give your [...]
Chanticleer – A Tour With Dan Benarcik – Part 2
August 2, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Design, Garden DesignIn the first video, Dan took us on a tour of the Entryway and Tea Cup Garden. In this video, before leaving the Tea Cup Garden, Dan shows us one more silver element, rosemary willow – Salix elaeagnous – a small tree or shrub. Dan cut it back hard this year to re-introduce light, heat, [...]
Chanticleer – A Tour With Dan Benarcik
July 16, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Design, Garden Plants“Garden making is fundamentally not an intellectual enterprise. Most people come to gardens to experience some form of beauty.” Chris Woods Chanticleer, a 47 acre garden in the suburbs of Philadelphia, was the personal estate of Adolph Rosengarten, Sr. and was passed down to his son, Adolph Jr. and daughter, Emily. As Adrian Higgins writes [...]
A Love Affair Gone Awry – Why I Won’t Plant Robinia Pseudocacia In My Garden Again
August 29, 2007 – Posted in: Garden Musings, Trees and ShrubsI’m a pretty intense gardener. So when I love a certain specimen, I tend to use it with great abandon in my garden. Such was the case with Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’ and ‘Purple Robe’. I first came across this specimen on a trip to London in late spring, close to two decades ago. I was [...]