Comprising a Life

The Bonsai, Travels and Haiku of Vaughn Banting

A large formal garden

The following photographs document the yearly changes brought about by the use of color in this large formal garden  we maintain.

Front of home

Agapanthus up the drive

Rear of house

Clipped parterre

Color in pots

Patterns of annuals

Photographing our work

Pansy patterns

Other patterns

More patterns

Details of clipping

Flowers changed out again

Flower garden parterre temporararily empty

Good over all view

Abstract parterre

Aged teak chairs

Pergola

Pergala beds planted

Garden in full color

Roses growing on pergola

Distant view

Croquet lawn

Azaleas in full bloom

Blue Chinese pots with white petunias

Teaching Garden Symposium at my client's home

Moving inside

Another view of the lawn

Spring flowers in full bloom

Horseshoe playing area

An old marble tub used for flowers

Nice view of the garden's design

View down through the pergola

Roses blooming on the pergola

Nicholas and Banting imported, pre-chilled and planted thousands of tulips each year, with Vaughn Banting going to Holland himself to check on how the bulbs were washed.

Tulips still in the field

Culling

Washing

 

A member of the crew changing out annuals

Useing purple pansies and kale

Red and white azaleas and tulips

Angelque tulips

More views of tulips

Clusterd pots of pansies viewed through pergala

Path through the pergala