New Heights: The Vertical Wall Garden at Capitol

{photo by Stacey Van Berkel-Haines for Garden and Gun}

I have been wanting to put together a post about the extraordinary wall garden in Laura Vinroot Poole's hip shop, Capitol, for almost a year now. Shopping in Charlotte, last Spring, my daughter and I stumbled into Capitol and almost fainted when we entered the lovely connecting atrium draped with the towering wall garden designed by french botanist Patrick Blanc. I searched and searched and could not find a good picture. Surely someone was as taken with this garden as I was and had circulated a picture. The day I came home that Spring afternoon, I got lost on the Internet for literally hours looking at the stunning work of Patrick Blanc. He is quite accomplished all over the world, and I am grateful to have one of his incredible creations so close to home.

I was so excited to see Garden and Gun this month and their feature article. Truly their photographs are lovely but to really capture the garden's essence you just must go for a visit next time you are in Charlotte.

a birds eye view of the interior wall garden at Capitol in Charlotte

Garden walls have been gaining in popularity as of late. The image above and the next few photos are the "bio texture" garden wall at Anthropologie in London.

{Anthropologie London}

{Anthropologie London}

The wall garden from Kelly Brown at the Richmond Showhouse. How charming! Patrick Blanc share his secrets to creating these vertical masterpieces in several YouTube videos. There is an art to how you place the plants in a wavelike formation. You can get the basic supplies to make one at home through Antropologie owned garden shop Terrain.

http://shopterrain.com/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=ST&Screen=SRCH_1004&Search=vertical+garden

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Gifts for Dad

The best gift you can give {dad, daddy, father, grandfather, poppy} is a place to rejuvenate, a soulful place that he can make his own. When I saw this article in Garden & Gun {many years ago}, my first thought was how much my own husband would love a place in the woods just like this. Of course, it doesn't hurt that this is the special retreat of golfer, Davis Love. To read Davis Love's Wild Side by Joe Bargmann click here.

{photos via Garden & Gun Magazine May/June 2008}

Given that most of us can not afford to give our fathers a 2,890-acre spread on the Georgia coast, consider the next best thing, a weekend at the Eseeola Lodge in Linville, NC.

Okay. So it's difficult to get away with young children. Would you consider a day of fly fishing lessons for your one-and-only?

You are pretty sure that the father in your life would love to play dress-up in all that cool Orvis stuff but would  not love the fishy part. How about the sport fisherman's tie from Vineyard Vines, a tie that just begs a man to take his beautiful wife out for dinner and a movie.

So, the father in your life has not had on a tie since his niece got married several years ago {so much for the dinner and a movie} Browse through the fabulous gift's at BD Jeffries, one of my favorite sources for men's gifts.

{gift ideas from BD Jeffries}

Last, but certainly not least, consider a father's day subscription to Garden & Gun. I picked the cover from February/March 2009 because the dog reminds me so much of our first dog, Deacon, a gift from my husband. Like Marley, Deacon recked havoc on our life for nearly 13 years and filled our first years of marriage with love {and drama}. If you want to really shake things up at home, get him a lab puppy for father's day. It's the gift that keeps on giving!

{Man's Best Friend}

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Through The Garden Gate: Local Gardens that Inspire

I have learned over the years that I need time outdoors to feel whole. I am inspired by nature and enjoy seeing what others have done with their gardens to capture nature's beauty and bounty. Take a walk with me through my neighborhood and see what the possibilities hold. I love the fact that earthy, organic and green are once again popular and that buying locally grown produce is now hip. I think the highest compliment one can receive is being labeled "down-to-earth."

Winston Salem's gardens through my lens....

In my good friend's garden, she has trained lorapedium to climb the chimney. It blooms little ruby flowers in the early spring and fall.

Designed so that she can look out into the garden from her sun room, this charming symmetrical garden is designed with four quadrants and a central focal point, a verdigris topiary form. Separated by a pea gravel path, each quadrant features boxwood, herbs and perennials. It is enclosed with a white picket fence bordered by pink rose bushes..

I love this enchanting gate and the "peek-a-boo" nature of the privacy fence. I long to swing up the circular drive after a long day and walk through this gate and into my personal garden...a great path to start and finish each day.

This house and garden are meant to be together. The garden compliments the cottage feel of the home and the home architecture provides structure that compliments the garden.

This garden really has "swagger".

Look through the rose arbor at the shaped topiary on the patio.

 I can only imagine the depth a garden like this would add to my life. I think I need to capitalize on the green movement and start a new exercise movement entitled gardenZen.

GardenZen = vitamin D from the sun + garden yoga + aroma therapy + organic vegetables + meditation

A pea gravel path winds from the garage through the garden to the backdoor.

Charming and playful, this garden gate welcomes with whimsy!

The plaque reads "A garden of friends is always in bloom"

Flopsy, Mopsy and cottontail would certainly have a romp in this garden!

When I was very young I spent hours in the garden with my grandmother. My favorite thing to do was to pick and eat the sweet peas. We would go into her backyard garden in the late afternoon and pick and gather what we would eat for dinner. I love the way she would "wilt" the greens and now wish I had paid more attention. I also loved to help her mash the strawberries. She would serve them with heavy cream for dessert. After dinner, I had the privilege of taking the vegetable peels, apple cores, and strawberry tops and returning them to the garden for the birds and rabbits.

The lovely house in the background above is currently for sale and is my favorite house in Winston Salem. The gardens were done by local landscape architect Chip Calloway of Greensboro.

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