Cutting Garden and Fling Party at Chanticleer

Last September, the Philadelphia Area Fling took maine to Pennsylvania, wherever I enjoyed 2 visits to the incomparable Chanticleer. I spent a afloat time determination earlier the circuit began and returned for the authoritative day visit, which ended with dinner, unrecorded music, and dancing successful the garden. What a treat! This is Part 10 of my Chanticleer recap, with photos from some visits.

Today I’m sharing pics from Chanticleer’s Cutting Garden and Vegetable Garden. A picturesque potting shed sets a romanticist mood.

First, let’s research the cutting garden. Arches of entwined willow march on a conifer straw path, offering transition done a riot of flowers.

Chanticleer’s unit uses the cutting plot to marque regular floral arrangements for the house, pavilion, and restrooms.

There’s a batch of gorgeous foliage and flowers to enactment with here.

Sunflowers were nodding implicit the path…

…and ripened seedheads were wired into the arches — an offering for birds.

At the extremity of the way successful this direction…

…you find a pumpkin seat nether a tree.

From present you person a bully presumption of the potting shed and 2 rows of acold frames.

I walked done the plot aggregate times, taking it each in.

So overmuch colour and autumn bounty

Chanticleer ever has enticing places to beryllium and conscionable look.

At the different extremity of the agelong way done the cutting garden…

…you travel to a fenced rootlike garden, wherever pumpkins dangled from vines successful precocious September.

Vegetables harvested present are fixed to section nutrient banks and shelters.

Sheaves of ‘Lisette’ linen flax were bundled into a miniature haystack.

Somber sunflowers similar mourners astatine a funeral

But the temper among the Flingers that day was thing but mournful. Chanticleer made a beauteous enactment for us, with aggregate nutrient stations and a barroom acceptable up passim the grounds.

And an adorable crystal pick truck

I ran into Chanticleer’s enforcement director, Bill Thomas, and his Welsh corgi, Monty, successful the cutting garden. I archetypal met Bill astir 10 years agone successful Dustin Gimbel’s garden successful Los Angeles. If you haven’t work Bill’s publication astir Chanticleer, The Art of Gardening, you should. (For adjacent much Chanticleer goodness, cheque retired Rob Cardillo‘s gorgeous photos successful Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden.)

As the day drew to a close, I spotted Karl Gercens, organizer of the Philadelphia Area Fling, taking a well-deserved remainder and chatting with Mary Schier of My Northern Garden.

Fling friends from crossed the state and beyond were basking successful the Chanticleer glow, including Teri Speight of Cottage successful the Court and Michelle Derviss, a decorator and sculptor from California.

More blessed Flingers: Gail Eichelberger, Lisa Wagner, Beth Stetenfeld, Kylee Baumle, Margaret Mishra, and Caroline Homer

Thank you, Chanticleer. And astir especially, convey you, Karl. The Philadelphia Area Fling was wonderful.

The 2024 Fling volition beryllium held successful Puget Sound, Washington, successful July, led by Camille Paulsen, Lynette Lampson, and Paula Rothkopf. If you’re a blogger oregon person a nationalist societal media beingness astir gardening (Instagram, YouTube channel, TikTok, podcast, etc.), possibly I’ll spot you there!

This concludes my sum of the Philadelphia Area Fling. For a look backmost astatine Bell’s Woodland Garden astatine Chanticleer, click here.

To work astir my past visits to the Cutting and Vegetable Garden astatine Chanticleer, travel these links:

• Creative paths and cutting plot glory astatine Chanticleer, October 2021
• Chanticleer’s Flower and Vegetable Garden and magical Bell’s Woodland, June 2016
• Cut Flower & Vegetable Garden, July 2008

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