Felder's Garden Heart
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FELDER'S FUNKY STUFF
Green/Lazy/Cheapskate Garden page
Rain Harvester Porch
Green Roof Entry Arbor
Slow Gardening (R)
Slow Gardening book
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For a short video on Slow Gardening click here
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'MATER SANDWICHES
AND BOOK SIGNINGS
DETAILS - click HERE
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THE TRUCK GARDEN
CLICK PHOTO
Planted in1988 and
driven over 500,000 miles
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BOTTLE TREES
the SITE
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Garden Hearts click here
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ELBERT TAYLOR
Felder's first horticulture guru
from Indianola, Mississippi
"Chief" taught me everything about plant propagation, and a LOT about Life...
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Relaxing on my front porch...
(Figure made by Felder and Rita Hall for his Scarecrows and Other Yard Folk book)
JIM POWELL
TRANSCENDENT
URBAN
GARDENER
CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS OF JIM'S GARDEN
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GARDEN PORN
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(WARNING: Nudity, Violence, Obscene language, Drugs, AND MORE)
TO ENTER you must agree that YES you have an adolescent/bawdy/off-color sense of humor
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Ever been rickrolled?
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Well, well! Glad you're here!
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| I am a Southern gardener with way too much book learning and travel experiences to suit my laid-back style, so when I am not on the road lecturing, I'm knocking around the celebrated garden surrounding my little backyard cabin in Mississippi with my brown dog named Rusty, or on a cottage farm in rural Shropshire (in the western midlands of England). So I work hard at relaxing and having as much fun as possible - with as little effort as practical. When it comes to the "left brain" of horticulture science, I have my bases covered (see the Biostuff link). Plus, I had renowned landscape architect Rick Griffin guide me through developing my garden spaces, and progressive architect Jeff Seabold design large "green" construction projects, so I can enjoy my efforts year-round without a lot of huffing and puffing and off-site resources. It's an overstuffed cottage garden with plants both common and rare, and plenty of, er, "accessories." But when it comes to the "right brain" of just having a fun, pretty, and productive garden - with as little effort as possible - I am a charter member of the scattered tribe called "dirt gardeners" who plant what we like, where we like, and for whatever reason we like. Because we are opinionated REAL gardeners, some folks like us and our approach, others do not. (SHRUG) Take a few minutes to browse around. E-mail me if you have some comments (keep 'em clean). Here's hoping you have fun in your own "guarded area" - your garden. |
Photo taken at Terra del Madre,the biennial Slow Food event in Turin, Italy
Felder during 2010 winter solstice
Darwen Tower, Northern England
(photo by Matt Donnelly appeared in Lancashire Telegraph newspaper)
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Felder participated in the 2011 winter solstice
at STONEHENGE
Felder's interpretation:
PEG HENGE
(feel free to improvise your own, and send photos)
CLICK HERE FOR MORE HENGES
including the 2011 winter solstice at STONEHENGE
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Judging hanging basket competition in Claverly village
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DALE CHIHULY GLASS SCULPTURES
AT THE
DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN
CLICK IMAGE FOR MORE
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TOUGH PLANTS
for SOUTHERN GARDENS
Click HERE to go to a page of "LISTS"
that includes popular, tough, low-maintenance plants
for Southeastern gardens.
NOTE: Cool Springs Press published my Tough Plants book series that includes
titles for the South, North (Midwest and New England), California, and Florida.
All are available from online bookstores...
Chrysanthemum 'Clara Curtis'
also known as Country Girls and Ryan's Pink
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LABYRINTH LAWN!!
(A spiral is a very simply labyrinth -
a one-way path, as opposed to a puzzle-like maze with turns and choices.)
(STUPID "LAWN RULES" - HAVE FUN!!)
Here is a small daffodil maze, and a larger daffodil labyrinth designed by Felder
for an Arkansas schoolyard):
Labyrinth - single path winding to the center and back out
Maze - a puzzle with choices, some which lead to dead-ends
(Most mazes are made with high hedges so you can't see where you are going)
FOR A NEAT ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL
MANICURED LAWN, SCROLL DOWN TO THIS
"MEADOW LAWN" LINK RIGHT BELOW:
THE MEADOW LAWN
A call for a practical approach
(click photo)
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WHAT A BLAST !!!
FELDER and his Green Truck
with the bottle trees and stuff growing in the back
were the
GRAND MARSHAL
of the 30th Annual
MAL'S ST. PADDY'S DAY PARADE
5th largest St. Patrick's Day parade in America -
50 floats, countless marching groups, and 70,000 attendees
PART OF FELDER'S ENTOURAGE
The Fabulous DOO-DAH DOLLS
The Garden Arch in the garden
...and as a truck accessory
Stephanie Dwyer, who created the bottle sconces for Felder's truck,
made an entry arbor for his garden which was temporarily
put onto the green garden truck for the parade as a backdrop for
Felder as he tossed beads and MoonPies® from the back of his truck...
The float that followed, overstuffed with Felder's friends,
included the largest bottle tree in the known universe...
That was ONE FINE PARADE!
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HOOOO-EEEEEEEE !!!
What's that bad smell in Felder's yard?
It's the flower of his Dracunculus, sometimes called
"corpse flower" because it smell like... well, something dead.
It smells that way to attract pollinating flies,
but even my brown dog goes out of his way to avoid it...
The bulb-like plant is perfectly winter hardy in Mississippi gardens.
Below: Daughter Zoe (when in her teenage GOTH phase) and
our shady backyard "voodoo lily" (Amorphophallus 'Konjac')
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Zoe and a titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) - world's
largest (and smelliest) flower - at a North Carolina botanical
garden greenhouse...can you see the tears in her eyes from the stench?
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GARDEN CRITTERS
REPTILES FOUND IN FELDER'S YARD
CLICK HERE
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Felder's newly-redone backyard flower bed
and a tabletop plant collection
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Felder as a Green Man
For the Green Man link
scroll halfway down the page
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TOPIARY
The art of boogering up a plant well
Click here for examples from around the world
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FELDER'S GARDEN HAS STONES...
LOTS of them, all sizes, all uses...
CLICK HERE FOR A FEW EXAMPLES
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MAKING A TRADITIONAL HEDGEROW
CLICK HERE
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HOW TO MAKE FLOWER POTS...
From USED TIRES
TIRE PLANTER AT DISNEY
(It ain't just a trashy Mississippi thing)
Click here for photos and how-to
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FELDER'S FRONT BACKYARD
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Rusty and I live in a one-room cabin behind my "regular"
home (which is rented to some medical students),
which suits us fine. The garden is tiny, but includes many
dozens of different plants and garden art. There is a
flagstone and raised wooden walk all the way around
for better enjoyment in all weather.
Here're some shots of my new kitchen addition, which I call the Cornbread Chapel (Praise heaven and pass the butter!)
Before kitchen |
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After kitchen addition |
First wall adornment
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ELEMENTS OF A SOUTHERN COTTAGE GARDEN
click here
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Easy WATER GARDENS
Felder's Front Garden
For more, click here
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ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
CLICK HERE
FOR A FEW OF FELDER'S FAVORITES
CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2011
CLICK HERE
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Listen to Felder Rushing and guests on MPB Radio every Friday at 9 a.m., and rebroadcast Saturday at 10 a.m., on
The Gestalt Gardener
Radio Program
CLICK HERE
FOR MPB's GESTALT GARDENER
"...gardening is as easy as frying bologna..."
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Gestalt Gardener Haikus from Listeners:
No rain out west here
Central Texas drought again
watering pumpkins
- Matt Evans, Austin Texas
"Crape Myrtle & Company" by Diana Shaw, Mobile Alabama:
High-born pink inks the
Blank green leaves below it, thus
Publishing its blushes.
Nine in the morning,
Waiting for Felder to come on.
Okra in the pan.