Chanticleer Garden is my cup o’ tea

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December 29, 2023

The enchanting Chanticleer was worthy two visits during September’s Philadelphia Area Fling tour. I flew successful aboriginal from Texas successful bid to walk an full time exploring Chanticleer, knowing I’d spot it again for a fewer hours connected Day 2 of the tour. More is more! This was my 4th clip to sojourn Chanticleer, and arsenic usual, I took a bazillion photos, which I’m inactive editing down for your viewing pleasure. I’ll stock them implicit the adjacent respective posts. Consider it a belated vacation contiguous to you, beloved reader!

Let’s commencement with Chanticleer’s Teacup Garden, which you participate via a white-walled courtyard dressed up with clusters of potted plants and a tile representation of sunflowers.

One of the gardeners reminded my radical of the regular bouquets that beautify the restrooms astatine Chanticleer, truthful I popped into the ladies’ country astir the country to see. Gorgeous!

I besides admired a tillandsia statement connected a knotholed histrion limb hanging connected the wall.

Once you measurement done the doorway…

…you observe the Teacup Garden’s namesake — the humble and charming teacup fountain. Every year, the gardeners astatine Chanticleer power up the planting taxable astir the fountain. This year, rows of gangly bananas made leafy columns connected either side, underplanted with metallic and golden plants.

The fountain’s mirror-like “cup” spills 4 streams of h2o into a circular basin.

A wider view

Around the perimeter of the courtyard, richly planted beds dazzle with texture and color.

Pots adhd elevation and focal points.

The teacup fountain was purchased successful Florence, Italy, by the archetypal owners of Chanticleer, the Rosengartens, in the 1920s.

I enjoyed the fountain plot from each sides, and past I headed up a abbreviated formation of stairs…

…and looked back, admiring the jungly effect of the bananas, yuccas, and different bold plants against the prim achromatic location (which contains administrative offices, I believe).

A wider view

A wide writer way runs parallel to the house, flanked by white-flowering borders. I peculiarly admired the columnar metallic trellises spaced on the magnitude of this garden. If I ever had the close spot, I’d emotion to person a welder marque thing similar.

At 1 extremity of the writer path, a variegated American agave perches successful an elevated metallic tub, evoking Apollo 11’s lunar lander!

The agelong view

Coming backmost astir to the house, I was intrigued by vines and brownish spheres dangling from a balcony railing. I deliberation these are kokedama moss balls?

An tremendous oak anchors a frothy achromatic bed.

Japanese anemones, 1 of my autumn faves

Tucked successful the branches of an evergreen, a azygous robin’s ovum someway inactive remained successful an abandoned bird’s nest successful precocious September. Is this existent oregon portion of the magic of Chanticleer?

A venerable dogwood, conscionable starting to blush reddish for fall, occupies 1 country of the garden’s little courtyard. I judge that’s a sedge tract but can’t retrieve for sure.

In a gangly bluish pot, a variegated ginkgo shows disconnected fan-shaped leaves.

Pink and gold

Chanticleer doesn’t enactment sculptures successful its gardens. But its railings, chairs and benches, plant-list boxes, and adjacent h2o fountains are handcrafted works of art. I emotion this spiral handrail with histrion roots and dogwood flowers adjacent to the aged dogwood tree.

A wider view

And present we’re backmost successful the teacup fountain courtyard.

To work astir my past visits to Chanticleer’s Teacup Garden, travel these links:

Up next: Chanticleer’s Tennis Court Garden. For a look backmost astatine different gardens connected the Philadelphia Area Fling tour, start here, astatine Paxson Hill Farm, and find much links astatine the extremity of each post.

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