This past weekend I was toiling in my potager garden getting it replanted for the upcoming late spring and summer harvests.
I’ve been harvesting lots of red curly and romaine lettuce as well as a hearty staple of cilantro and chives for my favorite Mexican taco recipe.
Yesterday I planted some more cilantro, basil, sweet peas and a tomato.
It’s still a little too early for the tomato seedlings to come out of the greenhouse but I thought I would give it a chance. I’ll surround it with a cloche to try to provide it with some added extra potection.
Photo of the potager at this moment in time.
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This next photo shows my small potager several seasons ago when the boxwood hedge was still growing into its planned architectural stature.
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During another season several years ago
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This photo below shows me in Rosemary Verey’s potager garden in England about 17 years ago.
You’ ll able to tell that I was very impressed by this garden and have thought of it often when I have design other potagers around Northern California
I love it because of its fine softscaping bones.
Yellow boxwood, red curly lettuce, green lettuce and purple cabbage.
Rosemary Verey Design
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This next photo is a potager that I designed in the late 90’s.
Note the inspiration from Ms. Verey’s garden that I used when laying this garden out.
Derviss Design
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The photo below is of the now defunct Copia potager garden.
It too has greatly inspired me and I am very saddened by its demise.
It was designed by Peter Waker.
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His influence here for a small potager in Marin.
Derviss Design
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and another
Derviss Design
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and another
Derviss Design
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8 comments:
Thank you for adding to my inspiration for my own potager project. I can't wait to get started on it this week. Grading will be done and coldframes dug. Peas will be planted!
I am DROOLING like a FOOL!!!
These are so glorious - as beautiful as they are productive ... what a WEALTH of inspiration! You are such a talent - you give me shivers!!!
Thanks for the beauty Michelle!
XOIvette
So wonderfully ordered and organized, yet so fanciful! I love that you plant at the base of the central container- it adds just the right amount of detail.
I adore the last one. Delicate colors and textures. Merci,my friend.
i like garden of you. wow
Wonderful potager gardens! I especially liked seeing your garden, as the design matured. Giving me some inspiration for my garden. Thank you.
Thanks for showing us all those lovely potagers. I liked seeing how your own changed through the years. I went to Rosemary Verey's garden many years ago and was floored by the potager. Of course, she had two gardeners working on it while I was there, which sadly made me think I could never do it myself. But really, I was just there for the inspiration. :-)
Gorgeous and functional. What more can you ask from plants.
Shirley Bovshow
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