Edible Landscaping - Beauty & Bounty

Our house and gardens in NoDa on 36th Street, formal gardens as well as the beds in the back were mostly edible plants, herbs, fruit trees

Nectarine tree in full bloom

Edible Landscape Design emphasizes both food and function - blending formal gardens with vegetable and kitchen gardens. Spaces to wander and enjoy, but also filled with edible options to grab along the way. A garden with an outdoor kitchen and a space to dine. Sitting areas and spaces, each with their own vibe or feel.

A place where a flowering spring tree isn't just showy, but calling the pollenators to do their job and, in the end, produce fruit - not just blooms! Beauty and bounty. And we don't really consider one aspect more important than the other.

NEW SPACES / NEW GARDENS

Article about our gardens on 36th Street in NoDa - SouthPark Magazine

Joey and I have moved a good bit over the years, and we've developed our style with each move, integrating a botanical garden feel with food production and permaculture in mind. At each place we've moved to, we've also moved away from lawns, adding landscaping with pathways, seating areas, stone walls and patios, as well as cooking space. We've always said we wanted our outdoor spaces to feel enchanted or magical. We also view different areas in the gardens as "rooms" with each having its own decor, like a room in a home would. Some more to gather, some to sit alone or in pairs. Some spots for pups to call their own.

Below: our spot in Southend, before we moved to NoDa

Below: the 704 House in NoDa - first photo was how it looked when we bought it, before we landscaped and glitter-bombed it

Article from Better Homes & Gardens / Country Gardens Magazine 2016

Below: our current place in NoDa, limited gardens with just a couple beds

BIG GARDENS / BIG SPACES

Our space in the mountains, after the flooding from Hurricane Helene, has presented us with an opportunity to reimagine the entire layout, where we'll have our various gardens, pathways, and fruit trees. The filled pond gives us almost an extra acre of flat usable land for the vegetable garden and the space where the dam was is the perfect spot for wildflowers and a more sculptural garden space.

We are utilizing the amazing materials that would cost us tens of thousands of dollars if we had to buy them, but are laying all around us. Perfect flat river stone of all sizes, waiting to be placed along a planting bed, in a stacked wall, as a stair tread or part of a patio. We're building everything out of this beautiful stone, thankful to have it, but also humble remembering where it came from and why it's here.

It's fun to imagine everything we are planning here completed. A big patio beside Rush Creek at a small waterfall, with a table in the center built from the huge stone we rolled over, Egyptian style, to where it sits now. Wood benches around this, built from trees that fell in the storm. Grapevines covering trellises, providing shade in addition to their fruit.

A stone foundation storage shed as well as a greenhouse (or maybe the two combined). A large firepit for winter bonfires. A stack stone outdoor kitchen with a parrilla and a smoker, various grills, pulley's and pot hangers. I'm sure we'll end up reconfiguring our current plans a bit, that's part of the fun, seeing the right spot at the right time and adjusting.

We already spend time out here, not just working but enjoying the space, and its hardly done.

Edible landscaping was the goal, and we've ended up with a great space as a result ~~ Joey and Scott :)

Lottie Dottie supervised all aspects of garden design and implementation

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