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Chanticleer

24 Jan 2024

Cutting Garden and Fling Party at Chanticleer

In the cutting garden at Chanticleer, arches of entwined willow march along a pine straw path, offering passage through a riot of flowers.… Read More

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18 Jan 2024

Ringing Bell’s Woodland at Chanticleer Garden

The most secret part of Chanticleer is the entrance to Bell’s Woodland, beyond the cutting garden, which you enter through a hollow tree.… Read More

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13 Jan 2024

Falling into ruin at Chanticleer Garden

Chanticleer’s Ruin has a fairy tale quality. Plants creep up crumbling walls and emerge from paving, and ghostly faces appear in pools. … Read More

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9 Jan 2024

Rocking a dry garden at Chanticleer’s Gravel Garden

Many plants we grow in Central Texas appear in Chanticleer’s Gravel Garden, and it’s fun to see them in a new context.… Read More

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5 Jan 2024

Wading into Chanticleer’s Pond Garden

The Pond Garden at Chanticleer draws visitors like a magnet. Water features always do. This time it drew a great blue heron as well.… Read More

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4 Jan 2024

Into the Asian Woods at Chanticleer

Who says you can’t have flowers in a shade garden? In Chanticleer’s Asian Woods, I spotted a floating bouquet of zinnias, dahlias, and more.… Read More

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3 Jan 2024

Exploring Chanticleer’s Elevated Walkway, Serpentine, and Bulb Meadow

Exploring the Elevated Walkway, agricultural Serpentine, and Bulb Meadow in fall flower at Chanticleer Garden… Read More

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1 Jan 2024

Chanticleer’s dreamy House Garden

I call it a meadow garden. Chanticleer calls it the Flowery Lawn. Whatever you call it, it’s gorgeous: Chanticleer’s House Garden.… Read More

Chanticleer, Chanticleer Garden, meadow
3 Mar 2022

Creative paths and cutting garden glory at Chanticleer

Chanticleer Garden enchants through marvelous plant combos and artful garden spaces that evoke a sense of mystery, romance, and discovery.… Read More

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28 Feb 2022

Every passage is a destination at Chanticleer

Creative, romantic Chanticleer Garden makes each step, each path, a place of discovery and delight. It is stunning in every way.… Read More

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23 Feb 2022

Plants hold court at Chanticleer’s Teacup and Tennis Court gardens

Inventive, boldly planted gardens delight in the Teacup Garden and Tennis Court Garden at Chanticleer in Wayne, Pennsylvania.… Read More

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22 Feb 2022

A garden rising from ruin at Chanticleer

Oaks, vines, and other plants colonize the slightly eerie Ruin garden at Chanticleer, where there’s a feeling of mystery and history.… Read More

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21 Feb 2022

Gravel garden at Chanticleer reminds me of Texas

Chanticleer’s Gravel Garden reminds me of Texas, an idealized version anyway. In October yuccas shimmer among flowering grasses and asters.… Read More

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