In lieu of organise an in - person garden tour this year , I ’ve gone virtual , making or helping make8 video “ tours”so far , with just one more to go .
At first I worked with the local access TV place but since grease one’s palms a newvideo redaction programand finding it easy to habituate , I ’m vanish solo – and sleep with it ! ( Though since discovering that my beloved new software program isRussian , I ’m a act nervous about using it . )
In creating television tours of other people ’s gardens , I ’ve made a mistake or two . Most egregiously , I thought I could just get license , then shoot video without any guidance from the gardener . That resulted in a draft picture that go about the garden from thewrong guidance , so that the lofty entrance was barely noticed as the viewer exit the garden . ( Fortunately , that lead to the nurseryman ask her professional - videographer son to do it rather , with agreat consequence . )
After that , I started the operation by walking the garden with the gardener , having them charge out characteristic or plants they want spotlight .
And I bit by bit made medicine more prominent in the videos , even combining it with narration . That ’s what I did for this next telecasting ofmy own garden . It ’s not a tour per se but the story of its recent make - over , which I ’m still faint over ever time I see it .
I ’m all aboutcolornow , and dream of way to have even more of it next yr , particularly livening up the still - subdued look of my back yard .
As I close in the narration , the most consequential variety and largest dose of color derive from painting the mansion blue angel . The remotion of sometime grey siding and hangout of the original cinder mental block frontage also mean revealing and mend the International Style architecture , something that I ’ve onlycome to apprize and even loveafter subsist in it a few years . take on a track in theHistory of American Architectureis what ultimately instigate me to make the change .
Garden
When I buy the star sign in late 2011 there was just turfgrass and a few sad - take care bush . I off all that and had the flagstone patio installed right away .
Architecture
The home is an illustration of the ‘ International Style , ’ a modernist style seldom interpret in the U.S. With the older turnout removed and the concrete block façade indemnify , the unit is in full touch on – except for the original color , which was ashen . ( NOT gon na have it ! ) It was built in 1937 in Historic Greenbelt , Maryland – a New Deal undertaking .
Design Constraint
For privacy and viewing of bad views , hedging are encouraged by co - op rules , but fail here on several reckoning . The preferred resolution – training vines on treillage instead of wire – is prohibited by the co - op .
Wall Hanging
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Music
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Plants Seen in Video
Crossvine ( Bignonia capreolata ‘ Tangerine Beauty’)Purple Hyacinth Bean ( photo with blooms viaSwallowtailGardenSeeds.)Morning GloryClematis paniculata
box ‘ Winter Gem’Ninebark ‘ Summer Wine’Caryopteris ‘ Grand Bleu’Spirea ‘ Ogon’Osmanthus ‘ Goshiki’Nandina ‘ Burgundy Wine’Mixed azaleas
Sedum takesimenseGroundcover ComfreyCarex ‘ Ice Dance’Lamb ’s capitulum
Black - eyed Susan ( Rudbeckia ‘ Goldstrum’)Joe Pye Weed ( Eupatorium ‘ Little Joe’)Wood Aster ( Aster divaricata)Little Blue Stem ‘ The Blues’Nepeta ‘ Walkers Low’Japanese Carex unknown mixed bag
Calibrachoa Million BellsPetuniaSweet Potato VinePersian ShieldIresine ‘ Blazin ’ Rose’Banana tree
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