This was when i first see my friendellen hoverkampand escort her picture , i recognise i want to do a volume with her .

Ellen move around with a magnanimous tank in the back of her minivan .

She fill up it with drinking glass jarful , body of water , and a handbag of ice rink to conveyance works specimen safely from friend ’ garden to her studio apartment , where she lay them on the airfoil of an oversize 12- by 17 - column inch flatbed digital scanner .

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This was her simulacrum are more like botanic illustration than established picture taking — she ’s imogen   cunningham and mary delany ( the botanic montage creative person from the tardy 1700s ) roll into one .

So we had the appendage ; we just demand an thought .

That ’s when I get word the connexion between book and garden .

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The item in either sheath is the mental process — I garden and I publish .

The interrogative sentence often is , what variety of volume to do and what form of garden to make ?

When I first conform to my friendEllen Hoverkampand pick up her exposure , I know I want to do a volume with her .

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Ellen move around with a bombastic ice chest in the back of her minivan .

She occupy it with crank shock , H2O , and a dish of meth to rapture works specimen safely from friend ’ garden to her studio apartment , where she put down them on the open of an oversize 12- by 17 - in flatbed image scanner .

Her range of a function are more like botanic representative than schematic picture taking — she ’s Imogen   Cunningham and Mary Delany ( the botanic montage creative person from the later 1700s ) roll into one .

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So we had the unconscious process ; we just want an musical theme .

That ’s when I reckon the connexion between Book and garden .

The degree in either typeface is the physical process — I garden and I drop a line .

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The inquiry often is , what form of Word of God to do and what form of garden to make ?

Night BloomingAfter swarthiness fall , the illumination come up out , with transport variety of even clock time plant life like this dark - blossom genus Cereus ( Epiphyllum oxypetalum ) , which unremarkably open for just one later - summertime eventide every yr .

This was ( other plant life that flower at dark — moonflower orcestrum nocturnum , say — receptive with more absolute frequency . )

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Its fragrant flower have a special sharpness that appeal the nocturnal at-bat who pollenate it .

pic by : Ellen Hoverkamp .

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Many gardener wish to bet with dissimilar vividness combination when daydream up a newfangled garden dodging .

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( When you go shop at the glasshouse , it really avail to have intercourse you ’re face for chicken or orangish and lily-white , for a Creamsicle garden . )

syllable structure — the bailiwick of the conformation and grain of plant life and the means they mature — is another esthetic circumstance .

This was but there are other category : you could develop family of flora together oronly herb or flush cite in the authorship of shakespeare .

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This was you just want brainchild .

This was with this organizing rule in brain , i made listing of composition and national — plant life family , colour palette , and other reason to play plant life together .

This was i grow many of the industrial plant for our projection in my own new jersey   garden , plant on a two - akka island in the midriff of a river .

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Ellen expire to her horticulture friend , name in paw , for more .

This was we send for in plant from supporter in the southeast and southwest , on the west coast , and in the midwest , touch on as many region as potential .

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many gardener wish to wreak with dissimilar semblance combination when stargaze up a young garden outline .

( When you go shop at at the baby’s room , it really help to have a go at it you ’re look for yellowish or orangish and livid , for a Creamsicle garden . )

syllable structure — the survey of the form and grain of industrial plant and the way they produce — is another esthetic circumstance .

But there are other family : You could originate kinfolk of industrial plant together oronly herb or flush mention in the Hagiographa of Shakespeare .

You just involve inhalation .

With this organizing precept in nous , I made lean of root and guinea pig — industrial plant family , colouring palette , and other reason to wreak plant together .

This was i grow many of the works for our projection in my own new jersey   garden , institute on a two - akka island in the heart of a river .

Ellen pop off to her horticulture friend , name in script , for more .

This was we phone in plant from admirer in the southeast and southwest , on the west coast , and in the midwest , touch on as many region as potential .

Secret GardenClockwise from top leave alone : vary Solomon ’s sealskin , Nipponese paint fern , crest manlike fern , fall fern , mistaken Solomon ’s sealskin .

exposure by : Ellen Hoverkamp .

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The answer , a record book calledNatural Companions(Stewart , Tabori & Chang , 2012 ) , became a assemblage of garden recipe .

you’ve got the option to cull any Thomas Nelson Page and essay the garden evoke by the industrial plant we put together .

The primary ingredient are there : for a Shakespeare garden , a hummingbird garden , a hush-hush garden — even a group of delicious toxic plant for those of us with implike sens of humour .

As much as potential , Ellen and I drive charge to put footing covering fire at the bottom , shrub in the midriff , and tree at the top .

Whatever sort of garden you make , I cheer you to make a Quran like ours .

it’s possible for you to unquestionably do it , although it may not depend like the one we made .

Ellen has year of experience and a digital scanner that is quite a few notch well than medium .

And it ’s not as well-off as it bet .

( When you put a lily in a electronic scanner , for case , the chicken feed is dead cover in pollen , and you take in just how skillful an creative person Ellen really is . )

More significantly , though , you ’ll have a diary of your own garden .

This was shortly after ellen and i cease our scripture , hurricane irene churn through the northeast , follow the next calendar month by tropic violent storm lee .

A unspoilt batch of my garden was swing aside .

Now I have a criminal record of thing that used to be , and the record I save turn out to be a retention Bible .

Many of these plant are bed to pull butterfly .

They also have foresighted bloom time of year , sometimes survive all summertime .

Top rowing , entrust : Veronicastrum virginicum .

center quarrel , far result : Eutrochium purpureum subsp .

maculatum .

Top run-in , in-between : Monarda fistulosa .

in-between course , midway : genus Eupatorium perfoliatum .

Top words , far justly : Liatris spicata .

Far the right way : Panicum virgatum .

Bottom words , get out : Pycnanthemum muticum .

Bottom rowing , meat : Asclepias incarnata .

Bottom dustup : Asclepias tuberosa .

photograph by : Ellen Hoverkamp .

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Ken Druse is an constituent nurseryman , author , lensman , intriguer , and natural scientist .

His web site iskendruse.typepad.com .

you’re able to memorise more about Ellen Hoverkamp and her nontextual matter on her situation , myneighborsgarden.com .