America’s most romantic garden
Chanticleer Garden all about the smallest details
Chanticleer Garden, dubbed a pleasure garden, is also known as the most romantic garden in America.
I’ve been fortunate to be able to make bi-annual pilgrimages to the town of Wayne, Pa., (near Philadelphia) to attend photography workshops and just soak up the beauty of this spectacular garden. (www.chanticleergarden.org)
You might think that a garden like Chanticleer is too grand to teach home gardeners, but the opposite is true.
Chanticleer serves as a living textbook filled with ideas we can apply to our home gardens: How to make the most of shade by combining plants with handsome foliage, how to artfully grow vegetables, how to plant a gorgeous planter, how to landscape around a pond, how to grow beautiful cut flowers and even how to espalier many kinds of trees.
The list of lessons is only limited by our power of observation and how open we are to new ideas. The gardeners at Chanticleer are dedicated to detail.
Garden elements are well planned and professionally executed — including with its bamboo railings in the Asian garden, twig-covered urns on the main terrace and floral arrangements in the restrooms.
It’s the little details that make it such a pleasure to explore this garden with camera in hand.
Please sit back and enjoy this week’s armchair tour of Chanticleer Garden, you may just pick up a few ideas that will work in your home garden.
Theresa Forte is a local garden writer, photographer and speaker. You can reach her by calling 905351-7540 or by email at theresa_forte@sympatico.ca .