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One of the secrets to cultivating orchids successfully in this part of the country is to put the plants outside for the summer. Night temperatures usually don’t fall below 60
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One of the secrets to cultivating orchids successfully is to put the plants outside for the summer. Night temperatures usually don’t fall below 60 degrees during June, July, and August
Last week I showed you a small part of the NC Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, NC which is about 45 minutes from where I live. This week I'm...
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Welcome to the third and final post about the cool plants I saw at the 2009 Garden Writers Association conference! This time I'll be recap...
Most of my adult life, I have coveted greenhouses. I think I may have inherited a genetic love of sticking my hands in dirt from my maternal grandmother. I understand that her gardens were spectacular, and according to my mother, she would much rather be out tending her beds than cleaning or cooking. I wonder what she wore?? I tend to garden in old shorts and tees and be covered in dirt. I cannot imagine her wearing anything other than long dark dresses and practical shoes, if old black and white family photos are accurate. I never knew her and wish I could now. She could tell me about her plants. She would decorate the alter at church with her flowers, and according to my Aunt Betty, her blue delphinium and pale pink Dr. Van Fleet rose combos were amazing. Since I joined the Orchid and Bromeliad Club of Key Largo, I have started coveting shade houses. Instead of bringing light in to plants, down here you have to keep light out. I only have so many spots on trees and on benches under trees and hanging on hooks from trees to put my orchids. I approached Harry with the idea of a lath house, which is what was used in the "olden days" before the high tech shade fabrics were invented. I like the look much better. Harry was enthusiastic and after deliberating and studying the best approach, we made a design and got to work. The first four posts took nine hours to dig in. We had to go down 18" and since we live on coral rock, that ain't so easy. I need to be sure that if a hurricane blows in, my structure doesn't blow out. Harry did the rest of the construction. I think he did a spectacular job and I am so excited. I have about half of my collection in there now and so much room to add more. Orchids are like crack to enthusiasts. We want more!
Classical Japanese architectural motifs enhance a surprising enclave in Tokyo.
Image 5 of 10 from gallery of JC Raulston Arboretum Lath House / Frank Harmon Architect. Courtesy of Frank Harmon Architect
On a corner lot in Tokyo, a contemporary refuge takes cues from traditional Japanese arts and garden design.
Have you always wanted a little shade garden but have nothing to work with except glaring sun? Well, maybe the answer is to build a little shade house like this one at Bourton House Gardens, in Bourton-On-The-Hill, England (www.bourtonhouse.com). I simply loved this little structure from the first moment I saw it. It's built almost entirely of "slatted" lumber, which seems to provide just the right combination of sun and shade inside. It has a little mulched path that runs right down the center so that plants are visible on two sides. And, in addition to providing shade for the array of plants inside, the structure itself is handsome and serves as great 'ornamentation' in the garden. Here are a few more views… A side view... Looking up through the roof... The sides are tilted in slightly at the bottom giving it a "corn-crib" appearance.
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In December, my husband built me a lath house to allow me to grow plants that require more shade than my open garden spaces provide. I moved some plants, like my small orchid collection, into it immediately but I've been slow about filling it up. Its interior is small to begin with so I wanted to be selective. I also wasn't sure which plants would survive the heat of summers here so my early choices have been experiments for the most part. In late June and early July I took photos of the exterior and interior areas for an update on the lath house project; however, before I got around to putting it together, we were hit with the worst heatwave we've experienced in the seven and a half years we've been here. The plants in the lath house weren't spared. Like the rest of the garden, some came through the experience with flying colors but others were badly damaged. There are lessons for me there but I'm not going to go into detail on the losses here. The photos shown here were all taken prior to the heatwave. I've spent as much or more time dressing up the exterior of the lath house as I've done cultivating the plants I housed inside of it. Interestingly enough, without exception, the exterior plants were entirely unscathed by the last Friday's 110F temperature and dry winds, perhaps because, like the plants inside the lath house, they get watered more frequently than the rest of the garden. The lath house sits in the southwest corner of our property, bounded by a neighbor's driveway (left) and the street (behind and right). I've decorated the front exterior with matching window boxes, matching pots, and a host of plants, including Agapanthus, Argyranthemum, and grass-like Acorus gramineus 'Golden Lion'. The yellow-flowered Euryops 'Sonnenschein' was in place before the lath house was built. When our neighbors had the oleander that formerly lined their driveway removed, it left the bare legs of the English laurel hedge on our side exposed even after the neighbor planted several good-sized Pittosporum 'Silver Sheen'. Although it's difficult to see in my photographs, I filled the space below the laurel with more plants, including Achillea 'Moonshine', Lomandra 'Finescape', Salvia 'Mystic Spires', and Convolvulus sabatius. I threw in a few Iris germanica, Abelia 'Radiance', Lavandula stoechas and a 'Golden Celebration' rose for good measure. I left the asparagus fern that was already there because it's impossible to get rid of anyway. I used 3 stumps left behind when we cut down one of our peppermint willows to create an informal sitting area on the west side. It's backed by my street-side succulent bed and 2 of the original Auranticarpa shrubs that formerly made up a hedge along the street. These shrubs have been dying off since we moved in. These 2 may go as well, in which case I'll plant more Xylosma congestum, extending the healthy hedge that starts next to our driveway. Someday, we may have privacy from the street here... I replanted the window boxes with summer-hardy plants: yellow Osteospermum, purple Calibrachoa, blue Scabiosa, and white Scaevola Now, let me show you the interior. Keep in mind that these photos were taken before the heatwave. Some of the plants shown here no longer look nearly as good. A cast iron cat I've had longer than I can remember guards the door (and keeps the wind from blowing it open) I originally planted the dirt areas surrounding the concrete pavers with creeping thyme but it didn't do well there. More recently, I replanted it with a mix of coleus, more Acorus 'Golden Lion, a couple of flowering Kalanchoe, Iresine moved from another area of the garden where it got too much sun, and some of the Heuchera that formerly filled the window boxes. This is the view from the open doorway looking west This shot was also taken from the doorway, scanning to the left And this is the view looking roughly southeast The plants inside the lath house include, clockwise from the upper left: Fatsia japonica 'Camouflage', Adiantum pervianum (aka silver dollar fern), a mix of Rex Begonias, my small orchid collection (half of which is shown here), a few fuchsias, and Iresine 'Brilliantissima' Even before the heatwave struck, I'd concluded that some of the plants in the interior need bigger pots. The plants in small pots dried out too fast and some, like the fuchsias, clearly need more root space. The strong, dry winds that accompanied the heatwave showed me that shade and ample water aren't sufficient to support every shade plant. The begonias, especially those grown primarily for their foliage, suffered badly. I may have to either give up on them or find them space with better wind protection. The damage to my orchids surprised me. I thought the laurel hedge behind the lath house would offer them extra protection but the orchids on the top shelf were burned and badly withered so that exposure definitely doesn't fit the bill. The Fatsia lost half its lower leaves but whether that was a response to the wind or the heat alone I don't know. Heat or not, I've enjoyed puttering in and around my lath house. The views from inside are nice too. View from the doorway looking up toward the house View from the window on the north side looking toward the driveway View from the other window looking east As the heat fades a bit, I'll be back at work in the lath house, repotting orchids and fuchsias. I expect my plant collection will continue to evolve as I discover what shade plants I can and can't grow there. Enjoy your weekend! All material © 2012-2018 by Kris Peterson for Late to the Garden Party
Here are two ways approach your lath and plaster repair whether you have a damaged wall or if you need to patch a hole.
Classical Japanese architectural motifs enhance a surprising enclave in Tokyo.
Here are two ways approach your lath and plaster repair whether you have a damaged wall or if you need to patch a hole.
Minnesota's most unique ceremony location decades in the making
In den letzten Jahren ist der Kiesgarten ein Trend für Hobbygärtner geworden. Warum? Da es viele Einsatzmöglichkeiten mit Kies gibt - ein romantischer
Image 3 of 10 from gallery of JC Raulston Arboretum Lath House / Frank Harmon Architect. Courtesy of Frank Harmon Architect
The Botanical Building, aka The Lath House, was built for the 1915-16 Exposition held in San Diego's Balboa Park and is one of the largest lath structures in the world. It is eminently photographable, we walked by it several times and I had to snap a photo every single time. That's why the light is so different in some of these images. According to balboapark.org: "The Botanical Building plantings include more than 2,100 permanent plants, featuring fascinating collections of cycads, ferns, orchids, other tropical plants and palms. The Botanical Building also presents some of the Park’s vibrant seasonal flower displays." Unfortunately the seasonal displays during our December visit were nothing but poinsettia, not a favorite of mine. Those palms however, they're lovely... Heading inside... The poinsettia were everywhere! Hard to avoid them even when photographing an impressive staghorn fern. Anthurium podophyllum (there were some labels in the lath house) Blechnum speciosa 'Silver Lady' The "shorter tree fern"... Ready to leave and taking one last look before turning around... To this view! Everybody enjoys the sunshine. The Timken Museum of Art backs up against the pond, that's where these beauties were planted, against the museum building. I don't think I could ever tire of that silver blue color. Now we're down in the Australian Gulley Garden. If you read my earlier rant then you know...this garden is extremely hard to locate, and a little underwhelming once you get there. There were, again, no labels that I could find. So none of my attempts at ID can really go any further than the genus. This of course is a eucalyptus. Dried up banksia (?) Still cool, but I think I'd prefer it alive. Grevillea, maybe G. 'pink pearl' Leucadendron Lovely... An acacia, I believe. Eucalyptus Brachychiton (bottle tree) Erythrina And so this is: THE END. Well, of this post. We still have the Desert Garden (different from the Old Cactus Garden) and the Zoo to see (soon). All material © 2009-2015 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.
Image 6 of 10 from gallery of JC Raulston Arboretum Lath House / Frank Harmon Architect. Courtesy of Frank Harmon Architect
Timber laths can be incorporated in many ways to add rustic chic to your garden in an affordable, eco-friendly and sustainable way.
Introduction and lumber requirements This arbor is a solid construction consisting of 100x100 (4x4) posts concreted into the ground, 100x50 (2x4) rafters and 50x50 (2x2) laths. The overall height is 2200mm (88") although that can be changed to suit, and the footprint (overall area on the ground) is 1100mm (44")…
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Major wall damage on a plaster and lath wall, of the kind of damage that goes all the way through both the plaster and lath, usually requires that sections of the wall be removed and replaced. However, it’s often just the plaster that’s damaged, with the lath still in place.
