Comprising a Life
The Bonsai, Travels and Haiku of Vaughn Banting
Some gardens either designed or maintained by my old company, "Nicholas & Banting"
To read about the origins of Nicholas and Banting click on these links:
http://www.vlbanting.com/aboutme.htm
http://www.vlbanting.com/myoldcompany.htm
In building Nicholas & Banting, I chose the up scale end of the local landscaping market and actually coined the term "Hoticultural Services" (as opposed to garss cutters) as a new allied industry. Most of my clients already had lawn care staff which I urged them to retain. This allowed me time to direct all my efforts towards providing actual horticultural services for them.
These services included importing thousands of seasonal bulbs directly from Holland each year and renting space in a cold storage facilities to properly set each species dormancy. This also meant traveling to Holland to make sure my bulb orders were properly handled.
Eventually I will be uploading many more pictures of gardens that I have designed or maintained over the years. But most are currently in the form of slides which I must first scan and prepare for the Web.
This is the garden layout of Anne Rice's old home in the New Orleans Garden District which my company redesigned and maintained. Its pictured here as it appeared, colored and redrawn for an article in Garden Design
One of the gardens I desiged taken from the book "Gardens of New Orleans" by Lake Douglas & Jeannette Hardy
