The Garden Wanderer

Thank you for sharing your experience. It's gr...

2013-05-27T18:15:51.849+02:00

Thank you for sharing your experience. It's great to get these kinds of stories - generous owners are often the best part of visiting gardens. This is indeed a wonderful property, and I hope it will be preserved for many years to come, however the owners manage to do it.

My wife and I visited Les Bois des Moutiers about ...

2013-05-27T17:08:08.559+02:00

My wife and I visited Les Bois des Moutiers about fifteen years ago. We arrived too early for the afternoon visiting hours, but decided to wait until the house and gardens were open. Madame Mallet and her son observed this and invited us in during their lunch hour. The house was, and I imagine still is, wonderful and their gesture towards us still remembered. It was a pity that at that time the Lutyens Society had not approached them for some sort of association.

Thank you for this report. I've been to Berchi...

2013-05-17T09:26:17.598+02:00

Thank you for this report. I've been to Berchigranges several times, but only in springtime. Nice summerimpressions!

I stumbled upon your blog, nice post about the TBG...

2013-04-05T12:38:46.761+02:00

I stumbled upon your blog, nice post about the TBG and the entry walk. It's magical in the fall, as you show, and it's less busy too.

The Toronto Music Garden is also a special place for plant lovers in Toronto, perhaps you have a few photos too (smile)?

Hi Sally. Thank you very much for stopping by and ...

2013-04-01T04:03:27.689+02:00

Hi Sally. Thank you very much for stopping by and the kind words of encouragement.

I also really enjoyed looking through your work - you have designed some beautiful gardens. If you ever need a helper, the south of France is one of my favourite spots!

Hello Garden Wanderer, I just stumbled across your...

2013-03-30T08:08:46.867+01:00

Hello Garden Wanderer, I just stumbled across your blog, and now I can't wait to delve into your archive! It's a gem, I salute you! Thanks for sharing.

Yes, it's not one of Oudolf's higher profi...

2013-03-27T14:54:17.618+01:00

Yes, it's not one of Oudolf's higher profile projects, but one that Toronto is certainly grateful for. And thanks for your point regarding the paving, I definitely agree with you. More interestingly, your comment made me realize that I never really noticed the paving in real life... if I had to describe it based on memory, I would have guessed large stone slabs! I was actually surprised when I looked back at the pictures and saw the manufactured stone. Normally I think I notice nice paving, but in this case, it seems that I just blocked it out. When you're there in the garden, the planting is so rich and powerful that the paving doesn't command nearly as much attention as in the pictures. Though I agree, I think the garden deserves something nicer - I would guess it was probably a budget issue.

I agree! And it's great to hear from a fellow...

2013-03-27T14:39:35.594+01:00

I agree! And it's great to hear from a fellow Torontonian, thanks for stopping by.

Thanks for this post. I was totally unaware of thi...

2013-03-26T15:03:50.550+01:00

Thanks for this post. I was totally unaware of this garden. And thanks for making the images large enough that we can expand them to see what's going on in the denser plantings. I wonder if my dislike of the path paving is a personal prejudice. The manufactured stone turns me off for some reason, but the plantings are beautiful.

One of my favourite places in the city, says this ...

2013-03-26T15:00:58.563+01:00

One of my favourite places in the city, says this Toronto girl.

I think I have a hunch who Anonymous is! Thanks f...

2013-03-25T16:15:21.853+01:00

I think I have a hunch who Anonymous is! Thanks for stopping by and the comment :). And of course I'm looking forward to helping you with your garden (or at least trying to). Just need to wait for the snow to melt, just like over here in Canada! Now you too have a taste of nice Canadian winters ;).

Dear Garden Wanderer, I really enyojed fnding out...

2013-03-24T14:29:08.945+01:00

Dear Garden Wanderer,

I really enyojed fnding out about your blog. I see that grasses are still your thing:). Also appreciated reading that although Belgian gardens seems a bit too organised you still found some good things about them and saw how you could learn from them. My opinion is that they reflect our Belgian character, we like the order in a organised French tidy hedge garden in combination with a Englisch cottage garden border but mixed in our unique style as we are neither English nor French but I would say closely related to both. I can send you a picture of a garden that requires a garden wanderer to design it in a Belgian-Canadian style which is completely covered with snow on the 24th of March which is not very Belgian. As winter is refusing to leave us, this might mean that Belgium is missing its Canadian inhabitants and looking forward to a reply to this post....

I do not know much about plants but your before an...

2013-03-12T01:15:56.472+01:00

I do not know much about plants but your before and after pictures of the snowdrops and the flowering hellabore are beautiful and I am glad that they made it through the changing weather patterns
Thanks for sharing

Magical and fairytale garden, beautiful !

2013-02-16T22:34:13.428+01:00

Magical and fairytale garden, beautiful !

I was very lucky to have been invited in October 2...

2013-01-30T11:51:52.871+01:00

I was very lucky to have been invited in October 2012 to see the Jardins de Plessis with Rosamee, the owner and the French tourist board. Sadly it was an extremely wet day but the gardens were absolutely stunning and well worth a visit!

Haven't been to Peter Jankes garden but I plan...

2013-01-13T12:24:38.475+01:00

Haven't been to Peter Jankes garden but I plan to. In German garden magazins he has a regular column and just recently he published the book about his garden: Meine Vision wird Garten, ISBN 978-3-938100-72-1
You can order it through Amazon. Lots of wonderful pictures and you may find also the name of the plant you were looking at!
Angelika

Last few days I was looking for exact this informa...

2012-11-28T08:17:57.285+01:00

Last few days I was looking for exact this information from here to there & finally its on your blog site. I'm really happy with your blog & will share it with my friend.

That's a really good point James. I actually t...

2012-11-19T21:59:38.965+01:00

That's a really good point James. I actually thought when I started the post that it wasn't really my sort of garden, and what could I say about it? But having to write something forced me to take a closer look and I realized I could learn a lot. Glad it was also of interest to you.

I think I'll take the Wirtz, though this garde...

2012-11-19T04:55:20.620+01:00

I think I'll take the Wirtz, though this garden is fascinating. I find what I don't particularly care for is as interesting as what I like, actually more so. This garden makes me think. Thanks for the (too infrequent) post.

Thanks James! I hope the post helped give you a be...

2012-11-11T20:23:55.183+01:00

Thanks James! I hope the post helped give you a better idea of this garden.

I've been wanting to see more of this garden. ...

2012-11-11T03:50:53.962+01:00

I've been wanting to see more of this garden. I'm happy you started posting again with this one.

Garden Wanderer... Fabulous post. I visited Land...

2012-10-15T23:09:10.665+02:00

Garden Wanderer...

Fabulous post. I visited Landschafts Park in 2007 as part of a garden/green space tour of Germany. I am now doing a research project on the site and hence, discovered your blog...thanks for refreshing my memory! Looking forward to checking out the rest of your blog.

Mark

Nice post. All the pictures are looking beautiful....

2012-08-14T08:49:31.752+02:00

Nice post. All the pictures are looking beautiful. You have done a great job in landscaping. Thanks for sharing pictures like this.
Landscaping Toronto

so so sooooooooooo beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!!!

2012-08-13T18:48:29.272+02:00

so so sooooooooooo beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for this interesting post -- I'm going ...

2012-07-12T23:34:47.028+02:00

Thanks for this interesting post -- I'm going to see if I can incorporate it into my upcoming fall trip to Germany and the Netherlands. I'll definitely be able to visit the gardens of Piet and Anya Oudolf and Mien Ruys.

And as someone who's come to gardens from a native plant background, your thoughts about garden-making are thought-provoking ~ I'll have to take a look at the pieces that you mention by Thomas Rainer, too.