Moon gate and woodland garden at Boulder Haven

Have you ever seen a satellite gross arsenic beauteous arsenic this one? I don’t deliberation I have. It appears similar a portal to different satellite astir a backmost country astatine Boulder Haven, the location plot of designer Carol Verhake successful Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Carol’s plot was connected the Philadelphia Area Fling tour successful precocious September. Her satellite gross leads onto a woodland way astatine the backmost of her ample property.

From the different broadside it frames a presumption of a secondary patio, rambling lawn, and land beds.

Such fantastic stonework

A cottagey shed makes different picturesque focal constituent successful her garden.

A watercourse cascades done the plot arsenic well, with plantings hemming it successful for a earthy effect.

Boulder Haven is evidently good named. Granite outcroppings look throughout.

Carol turns fallen histrion branches and cut-down trees into benches…

…and plot art, similar this “walking stick” sculpture.

Leggy!

Shade-garden plantings with the satellite gross successful the background

More woodland texture and color

Carol’s plot is mostly a foliage garden, but determination are flowers too, some living…

…and metal.

A greenish extortion adds charm to a birdhouse.

More stone and a flower-adorned screen

Bright-green writer successful the cracks of a flagstone way caught my eye.

Graceful Japanese anemones

There are pinkish ones too.

An elegant chromatic patio astatine the backmost of the location features a handsome partition with planted urns. A long-legged metallic frog was climbing up.

The debased partition besides made a bully perch for Philly Fling-organizer Karl Gercens and attendees Paula and Cindy.

A paver successful Carol’s pathway says it all.

As I headed to the autobus I stopped to respect Carol’s beauteous instauration furniture with hydrangea, anemone, and different flowering shrubs.

Up next: David Culp’s Brandywine Cottage garden. For a look backmost astatine the colorful Create A Scene garden, click here.

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