2011 Another Award Winning Garden

I'm going to interrupt my posts from the Philadelphia Flower Show with one last post from the 2011 Antique and Garden Show.  

The theme this year was Elements. and our garden was Fragrance.  Other gardens included water, stone, iron and wood.
It started like it always does, with the hardscape.

And..... this one was really hard!  I have big plans for these boulders in my garden soon.

 
All this will be transformed in a matter of 3 days.

Please, come join me in the garden.

The garden entry path was flanked by two large columns.  As so often happens, farm land was converted into a subdivision and the gate columns were discarded and left behind in what turned out to be the new homeowner's rose bed.  The home owner just wanted them hauled away. These columns were each carved from a single piece of stone. Experts estimate that they were carved in the early 1900's.

Another Best of Show Ribbon for my talented husband and the landscape architect Stephen Wells.

Soft textures combined with an interesting hardscape made this garden a winner.

Here's the giant boxwood the crew dug up.

Rosemary, thyme, fennel, eucalyptus, lavender and hyacinth provided the fragrance.   

The Antique and Garden Show is in February.  They take it all down in one day and then do it all again in March for the Lawn and Garden Show in a different location!   The Lawn and Garden Show is held in one of the fairgrounds buildings where the space creates it's own challenges.  Here are the same boulders, used in a different way.  

All these veggies are now growing along my driveway.  We have already eaten some of the broccoli.

See the same boxwood tucked in the corner?

 After a month of back to back garden shows, my husband is exhausted.