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Into the Wild
New American gardening is the next big thing—so says landscape designer Donald Pell.
By Melissa Jacobs
Looking at the squat shrub, it’s tough to believe that anyone is overly interested in it. “If you saw it in a gas station parking lot, you wouldn’t look at it twice,” concedes Donald Pell. “But in October, this thing turns an orange gold that’s second to none. It has a luminescence that our gardeners will stop and photograph.”
That’s true of many species the landscape artist has on his 14-acre Chester County farm. Here, what looks innocuous, common and even accidental is, in fact, part of the plant palate from which Pell creates a living painting filled with color and texture. A hosta isn’t just
a hosta—it’s an Abiqua Drinking Gourd hosta with rippled leaves that gather and rise into
a bucket shape. The salvia is a variety known
as Russian sage. “It’s from the mountains of Afghanistan,” Pell says.
This is New American gardening, a style adjacent to, but different from, the native plant movement. Pell doesn’t limit himself to plants that are indigenous to Pennsylvania or even the United States. Instead, he uses
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