A colonial home like this one with it's well kept, traditional garden out front can be found here in Meadowlake.

 One way to find the style of garden for you is to look at your house architecture. This Georgian Colonial  has a square, symmetrical shape, central door, and straight lines of windows on the first and second floor. There is usually a decorative crown above the door and flattened columns on either side of it. The door leads to an entryway with stairway and hall aligned along the center of the house. All rooms branch off of these.

 The traditional style garden shown here looks appropriate with this style house. As with the house, the plants are arranged symmetrically, balanced and carefully placed along the foundation. 

Using evergreens, boxwood, laurel, holly, and yew is always a safe bet.  Flowering trees, redbud, dogwood, crabapple and cherry  are some of the choices that are used so that each season showcases one main focal point. The idea here is clean, neat, color in contained areas and not busy.

The saying, 'A place for everything and everything in it's place' is quite true for this style garden.

Some other details used in a traditional garden are:



Chippendale Bench



Gate with arbor



Brick path through garden



Meadowlake is sprucing up again

 Every year at about this time our neighborhood goes into overdrive. It is exciting to see how everyone is spiffing up their homes.


A new garage? Nice!



Total renovation going on here.



New wing was added here.  Landscaping designed and installed by John Logue.



New porch. Wow! Can't wait to see it finished.








One, Two, Buckle my shoe

One, two, buckle my shoe;



Three, four, knock at the door;



Five, six, pick up sticks;



Seven, eight, lay them straight:

The Duncan family spent a day cleaning up their yard after the gusty winds blew through our neighborhood the other day.
If you want to join in on the fun, just go outside and see if you can find any sticks to pick up. Here is the rest of the poem so you can recite it while you work. See if you can make a bigger pile at the street than anyone else! Most of all, have fun. I am sure you can make your parents really happy doing this too.


Nine, ten,

A big fat hen;
Eleven, twelve,
Dig and delve;
Thirteen, fourteen,
Maids a-courting;
Fifteen, sixteen,
Maids in the kitchen;
Seventeen, eighteen,
Maids a-waiting
Nineteen, twenty,
My plate's empty.