tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post1967088028410918652..comments2023-06-28T09:15:41.621-05:00Comments on Signature Gardens: The Bare BonesTonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13862726143727717921noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-38955170971764055332012-01-10T20:52:09.759-06:002012-01-10T20:52:09.759-06:00Your bones, hardscape and plantings combined, are ...Your bones, hardscape and plantings combined, are exquisite! If it looks this good in winter, you know it will be spectacular when it is blooming. I like seeing the long views of your garden. My own garden is not nearly so neat! You have made me realize it is long overdue for a clean-up.debsgardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15656883577922890561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-20722907397645105912012-01-10T10:02:17.901-06:002012-01-10T10:02:17.901-06:00Loved seeing your garden from so many perspectives...Loved seeing your garden from so many perspectives. Your design is always so inspiring and I'm taking close notes...I'd like to revamp my front yard. Not sure if it will happen soon. I'm leaning toward waiting for the drought to lessen its grip on us.Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03872899189875117518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-32801305875419350552012-01-09T21:42:11.719-06:002012-01-09T21:42:11.719-06:00Your garden looks fabulous in any season, Toni! Th...Your garden looks fabulous in any season, Toni! These photos show that it has great "bones" no matter what the season. Enjoy your rest and planning!Beth at PlantPostingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10473637655960119672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-68778382966607128182012-01-09T20:43:31.492-06:002012-01-09T20:43:31.492-06:00Order lovely order. Quite an oriental feel to you...Order lovely order. Quite an oriental feel to your garden.catharine Howardhttp://www.catharinehoward.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-55378255899235259682012-01-09T17:44:16.581-06:002012-01-09T17:44:16.581-06:00I appreciate your cheer!! I am so excited about th...I appreciate your cheer!! I am so excited about the fall changes as well as the ones I have planned for spring. It's like putting together a puzzle. I feel like I finally found the piece that's been missing and now the picture is complete. Yay!! Happy!!!! It only took 9 years. :o)Casa Mariposahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647089868277238456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-69605985489868138932012-01-09T06:01:43.939-06:002012-01-09T06:01:43.939-06:00Such great info Toni. I have so many weeds in my p...Such great info Toni. I have so many weeds in my perennial gardens along with young columbine that I don't know where to begin! I really need to get over that or I'll have more weeds than flowers!Evehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06554593974838511759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-11777552133107506202012-01-09T03:01:31.570-06:002012-01-09T03:01:31.570-06:00Thanks Toni... I just checked out the site you rec...Thanks Toni... I just checked out the site you recommended and can't wait to dig deeper into the past posts.... looks like a great site! Larry<br />p.s. no snow in sight for the foreseeable future and temps close to 50 degrees over the next few days... yipes!Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13563036192373891209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-69348719916746956302012-01-08T21:55:48.529-06:002012-01-08T21:55:48.529-06:00@Casa: You crack me up! Please don't sigh! ...@Casa: You crack me up! Please don't sigh! This did not happen overnight. You are getting there with all of your renovations. You will have the garden of your dreams in no time :-) I think gardens look larger in pictures than they really are. As I mentioned, our property is under a half acre. Nice size; but not huge. Just FYI, the cathedral type "window" is actually a mirror attached to a wrought iron piece that I attached to the fence so it looks like a gate going through the fence. I fooled my neighbor one time. He came over and said, "Why do you have a hole in your side of the fence and I don't have one on mine." Ha!! I copied the idea from another garden I saw, so feel free to copy mine :-)<br /><br />@Lee: Thank you, too, for your kind comment. "Inviting" I like that. I love to invite others to visit my garden. Speaking of which, my garden will be on tour in May, so if you're in the area...you're invited :-)Toni - Signature Gardenshttp://signaturegardens.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-12082380720888879392012-01-08T21:46:43.247-06:002012-01-08T21:46:43.247-06:00@Stone: My "small space" is just under ...@Stone: My "small space" is just under a half acre. I wish I didn't have to look at neighbor's houses a few feet away!! I try to keep some balance between tidying up and not going overboard. In regard to the pond, in years past, I have not cut back the pond plants after a freeze, and by spring time I am left with a disgusting, mucky mess! The fallen mushy plants would inhibit the water flow and encourage algae growth and it was just awful by springtime. My pond guy suggested I cut everything back and keep the water flowing and it has helped so much!! I am actually enjoying my pond in the winter for the first time. I have a fish cave in the rocks for predator protection, and I netted the pond to help with predators and to keep leaves out (which further added to the mucky mess come springtime). Leaving the frozen pond plants never did anything to help with predators, from my experience. I lost fish every year until I had the fish cave built.Toni - Signature Gardenshttp://signaturegardens.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-76945982982969983602012-01-08T21:35:15.173-06:002012-01-08T21:35:15.173-06:00@Larry: Wow, thanks for such a great compliment! ...@Larry: Wow, thanks for such a great compliment! I appreciate that coming from someone with such an amazing landscape as you!! I hope you get the snow you are wanting -- and you can keep it up that way, thank you very much :-)<br /><br />@Desert: Vertebrae -- love it! That's a great description :-) Thanks for stopping by.<br /><br />@Wren, Andrea, Gaia, Holley: Thank you all for your compliments. As the years go by and I keep tweaking, I think I am finally becoming satisfied with the winter look. I have plans to add a few more evergreens in spots, so there's always room for more improvement.Tonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13862726143727717921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-21202564464463419672012-01-08T18:34:02.872-06:002012-01-08T18:34:02.872-06:00Your gardens look wonderful even in winter! Love ...Your gardens look wonderful even in winter! Love your flagstone path and pond and the way everything flows so beautifully...so inviting.Lee@A Guide to Northeastern Gardeninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15208392136967108192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-19373786778935757912012-01-08T17:56:00.785-06:002012-01-08T17:56:00.785-06:00Big. Deep. Sigh... When my garden grows up it want...Big. Deep. Sigh... When my garden grows up it wants to be your garden! LOVE the cathedral type windows cut into the fence!! Thanks for the shout out and the advice about the mini water rush. It's in a pot and I'll make sure it stays there!! In order to have as space as you do, I'd have to annex my neighbors yard, raise their house, and convince them to move out, which shold be easy after knocking down their house. Actually, that's not a bad idea.... :o)Casa Mariposahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647089868277238456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-19260260130193796472012-01-08T16:43:50.038-06:002012-01-08T16:43:50.038-06:00I'm kind of impressed by how much garden you s...I'm kind of impressed by how much garden you seem to have squeezed into a comparatively small space.<br />(Most of the gardens I'm in, you don't see the neighbor's house)<br /><br />I'm glad to hear that you try to limit the tidying that you do, dismayed that you do so much of it. <br /><br />At one of my gardens, the pond guy came and cleaned out the pond, and I started seeing dead fish in the filter, just like every winter. I explain over and over that cleaning out the plants exposes the koi fish to predation, and... nothing changes.stonehttp://www.stonethegardener.com/wp/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-69566097034033965972012-01-08T15:22:47.384-06:002012-01-08T15:22:47.384-06:00Thanks for letting us see your garden's X-ray ...Thanks for letting us see your garden's X-ray - it has great bones! Love the stone work with the green in between! You've got some nice evergreens, too. And the grasses look great. You truly have a beautiful garden - in all seasons.HolleyGardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14892421871044249940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-4320063034266841182012-01-08T08:54:21.183-06:002012-01-08T08:54:21.183-06:00Beautiful bones! Thanks for letting us see them!Beautiful bones! Thanks for letting us see them!Gaia Gardener:https://www.blogger.com/profile/00692281131036600613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-32448282192619179352012-01-07T23:33:57.592-06:002012-01-07T23:33:57.592-06:00You have a wide and beautiful garden Toni, that ev...You have a wide and beautiful garden Toni, that even at its barest, it is still lovely to look at. How i wish i have a garden that neat!Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06044386271018560595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-91049034759476791482012-01-07T22:50:11.292-06:002012-01-07T22:50:11.292-06:00It is so beautiful... even in winter. It does show...It is so beautiful... even in winter. It does show that you have an exceptional eye when it comes to landscape design. It makes me realize that I need to plant the basic "bones" of my garden first.Steph@RamblingWrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08747425786972900993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-17507198250242963422012-01-07T22:23:44.737-06:002012-01-07T22:23:44.737-06:00Nice tutorial of your much different ecoregion and...Nice tutorial of your much different ecoregion and your spaces, all its vistas. But seeing you start with "bones", then seeing the "vertabrae" of the flagstone path and lawn edge so nicely accented with the greenery of that mondo grass...mmmm!Desert Dwellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00952727692048782529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247599177074284311.post-74102248751942970122012-01-07T21:57:00.463-06:002012-01-07T21:57:00.463-06:00I really appreciate your sharing of these photos f...I really appreciate your sharing of these photos from your January gardens. I'm not one to 'swoon' but I do recognize an exceptional landscape when I see it and your design is outstanding. I particularly like the backyard and the pond. I sit here in some concern that we may have a sudden large drop in temperature because, as I'm sure you know, Wisconsin is too mild for this time of year. I'd feel much better were there about three inches of snow before the dreaded and almost certain cold comes this way. Take care Toni and I must say your wonderful gardening talents are obvious in what you've shared today! LarryLarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13563036192373891209noreply@blogger.com