Rotherwood Mansion. i've been at this property for 20 years. it was completely over run by poison ivy, english ivy, akebia, and most of the grounds had reverted to wilderness. the house itself had deterioriated badly suffering years and years and years of neglect and abandonment. the current owner bought it and literally saved it from complete decay. she deserves A LOT of credit.
i guess this is the front of the house as it is the entry even tho the first photo looks more like the front. it faces east at the confluence of 2 rivers. LOTS of ghost stories about this house but i'm here to tell you that if it is ever to be haunted that I will be the ghost.
view from the "front" porch over the river and to Bays Mountain
view east to the house from the upper terrace boxwood knot. prior to 1925 the boxwood area was a clay tennis court,,,,,,,,when it's time to trim the box i wish it still was a court
lower stone wall. we didn't know this existed when we first began work there as it was completely overtaken by shrubs, saplings and LOTS of honeysuckle. it was like horticultural archaeology there. hopefully now we can begin to rebuild the gardens one step at a time.
Three Oaks an 1810 house in Rogersville. I worked with the renovators of this property for years. It has since been sold and I have not worked there in a few years but I still have great memories of a wonderful house with history.
law office of the builder of the home. it is also a springhouse with the sweetest water ever flowing just underneath the building. the renovators of the property used this as a music studio for teaching piano.
this is the spring from underneath the law office/music studio. 2 springs on this side that you can see, a walking bridge over the spring into another large room with fireplace. it's all surrounded by stone walls . i always wanted to put a glass roof over that "pit" and use as an overwintering area for plants.
north side of the law office/spring house showing entry for the music students
no clue where the other 2 were
cooks house on the east edge of the property. yes, in 1810 there was slavery in east tennessee
just outside the sunroom
one of the many specimen trees at 3Oaks, wish i had photos of all of them and the perennial beds but thinking i would be there for years more i didn't get around to photographs
just another spring shot
i freely admit that this is my new toy and i'm playing with it today. these photos are from a visit to Peru during my first mid life crisis. i had NO idea the coast of Peru was so dry. 2" or less rain each year and further south in the Atacama desert no rain in recorded history BUT people being people they still like plants, color and to grow "stuff". after driving hours and seeing not even a blad of grass you begin to think,,,,maybe man didn't go to the moon after all because this looks just like the moon. then you enter the gates of a hacienda or some public place and BAM you have color that looks even more intense because of all the non color you have been surrounded by. the dog has nothing to do with horticulture but is the breed native to peru,,,,,,,perro sin pelo,,,,,,,,,,hairless dog. my friends called them perrito feo but i really liked these dogs with an orange mohawk . the balcon and rooftop garden i really liked, it was in the middle of the historic district . if people can garden there in the middle of a city of 10 million it can be done anywhere. the tree pruning in Lima shocked me. those were Ficus benjamina literally hacked to almost the point of death. i haven't learned how to caption each photo but will at some point.
just trying this out hoping to interact with other people who enjoy nature, horticulture and life in general. no clue what i'm doing or how to navigate this site and develop. it said: absolutely NO tech skills required,,,,,,we will see about that. they might have to edit their intro after meeting me.
pretty much a lifelong gardener , self employed for the past 26 years , have WAYYYYYY too many plants and continue to drag in more. hoping to chat/meet other people here and if i don't respond quickly it's because i don't know how or maybe even have lost this connection completely :(
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