Jenny Rose Carey’s playful garden rooms at Northview, part 2

In my past station I showed you fractional of Jenny Rose Carey’s garden, Northview, which I toured during the Philadelphia Area Fling successful September. Today I’ll amusement you the rest. Let’s commencement with her Fruits and Flowers Garden, wherever this Tin Man sculpture greeted maine with unfastened arms.

Stock-tank angiosperm garden

A plot aft my ain bosom — filled with stock-tank planters! The galvanized raised beds are packed with flowers for cutting, similar cosmos, gomphrena, amaranth, and dahlias.

Every abstraction successful Jenny’s 4.5-acre plot is welcoming with tables and chairs. This pinkish array was adjacent dressed up with a small bouquet of pinkish flowers.

Tropical Storm Ophelia had bent the plants, but they inactive held their flowers.

Outside that fenced garden, a circular tract with a wheelbarrow planter (and aged corncrib successful the background) makes for a calm palette cleanser.

This country captured my imaginativeness — duplicate aureate shrubs smothering a store doorway connected the carriage house. It’s similar a hidden support with aureate sentries.

Rain Garden

Nearby there’s a rainfall plot of autochthonal plants, which had its enactment chopped retired for it this day, to sop up each the runoff from the storm.

Lake garden

Next I ambled down Jenny’s agelong driveway toward her water garden, passing this twisty-trunked Japanese maple on the way. It had already shed its leaves for fall, revealing its calligraphic shape.

A semicircular mound built up with stacked stone…

…creates the cleanable conditions for a rocky adust plot connected top, with plants similar guara and dianthus.

A waterfall spills from the mound into a ample pond — designated arsenic a water connected Jenny’s plot map, possibly to separate it from her pond; spot Part 1 — with patio seating on 1 side.

Water-level chromatic slabs pb crossed the pond to the circular patio with gothic chairs. It’s beautifully designed. And you tin spot from the water’s dimpled aboveground however overmuch rainfall was coming down! Picture maine huddled nether an umbrella, poncho, and raincoat, trying to support my camera dry. But determination was inactive overmuch to see, truthful onward!

Stumpery

From the sunny pond, the plot enters a shady woodland, wherever logs from fallen trees are stacked into a plot wall.

And wherever smaller logs person been anthropomorphized into Northview Logheads, arsenic a motion dubs them.

Fun!

Walking on the log wall, I noticed immoderate of them are hollow, and 1 frames a view…

Magical! The biggest hollow log frames a peekaboo presumption of a teapot fountain and stump array and chairs. Let’s spell find them.

Shade Garden with teapot fountain

This whitethorn person been my favourite infinitesimal successful each of Northview. The fountain is charming, and the full abstraction encourages a consciousness of childlike wonder, acceptable successful a mossy glade enclosed with Japanese maples conscionable starting to turn.

Glass beads astir the teapot and teacup astir apt fell the mechanics of the disappearing fountain portion looking similar spilled liquid.

Nearby, acceptable for a child’s beverage enactment with a small bouquet and adjacent a brass lamp (does it airy astatine night?), a stump array and stools adds to the whimsy.

The stools look to beryllium manmade but blend perfectly with the aged stump table.

So charming!

Jenny’s grandkids (or whoever the children are successful her life) are precise fortunate to person specified delightful plot rooms to play in. Farther on the beverage enactment path, I came crossed a tiny playset (not pictured) and this ball-balancing elephant sculpture. A frilly gazebo successful the background…

…shelters a tiny array and chairs, brightly painted…

…where fairy magic happens.

View from the gazebo

There’s besides a small caboose playhouse here, and an oversized pencil speechmaking “Jenny’s Garden Designs.”

Kids are intelligibly encouraged to play successful this garden. I spotted this crow’s-nest treehouse built atop a monolithic histrion stump successful the Dry Garden (which unluckily I didn’t get bully pics of).

And adults are made invited too, with tons of originative plot rooms to research and places to beryllium and instrumentality it each in.

Another aged histrion stump that Jenny turned into a look bears a motion with the garden’s name.

Gathering Circle

Lastly I’ll amusement you Jenny’s house, which was built successful 1887 and is surrounded by ample trees planted successful that era. Other aged trees person been mislaid to property and to a tornado spawned by Hurricane Ida successful 2021 — hence the postulation of trunks successful the stumpery and lining immoderate of her plot beds.

In beforehand of the house, a debased curved partition encloses a “gathering circle,” wherever I ideate Jenny begins tours of her plot connected sunnier days.

Jenny has been gardening astatine Northview for 25 years, and it’s a charming spot so aft truthful galore years of her plantsmanship and creativity applied to it. Check retired Jenny’s website and her books, Glorious Shade and The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide, if you’d similar to larn more.

Up next: Barbara Tiffany’s hillside Mill Fleurs garden. For a look backmost astatine Part 1 of Jenny Rose Carey’s Northview Garden, click here.

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