
Kebo Garden
Bar Harbor, Maine
This multi-year project is on a small lot in downtown Bar Harbor that is the Home of my good friends and colleagues who own and run Peacock Builders. The house is a simple two-story, energy efficient home designed by Eric Reinholdt of 30X40 Design Workshop. The landscape design echoes the modern architecture and responds to the challenges of a small site on a steep hillside with close neighbors. The material pallet utilizes simple building materials, most of which were sourced nearby- charred white cedar fencing and trellises, water-struck bricks made in Auburn, Maine, an assortment of repurposed granite remnants and fieldstone. The landscape design also includes a small vegetable garden and numerous edible plants including raspberries, black huckleberries, lowbush blueberries, highbush blueberries, pear trees, apple trees, asparagus and grape vines. Many of these edible plants are integrated in otherwise ornamental garden beds, creating a garden that is both delicious and beautiful.
Early morning light with Pear tree, Poppies and Foxtail barley in the foreground.
First year of the garden.
Mixed stone retaining wall carves out space for the vegetable and cut flower garden.
Verbena stricta and Hordeum jubatum showing the beauty of native plants.
Mixed early season planting with bulbs, perennials and grasses.
View of the garden and fire pit from the entrance porch.
The exuberance of the June garden.
A modern Eastern White Cedar deer fence with traditional, natural wood preservation techniques.
Salvia, Amsonia and Baptisia in early summer.
Pruned grape vines and trellis give structure in the garden and provide late summer delight.
In high summer the fire pit area is immersed in plantings.
The fire pit in autumn.
Fire pit sitting wall, mixed perennials and COR-TEN garden shed.
Late summer perennials including Sanguisorba, Solidago, Eryngium and Echinops.
Early autumn asters, grasses and mixed perennials.
First year of the planting with annual red Poppies.
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