Trend Alert: Iron Garden Accessories

Posted by: Dan Shaw
Posted on: Tuesday, June 10, 2008

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What’s the story with those trellis/cages in Bunny’s before picture? They’re kinda great. I don’t see them on the forge’s web site.

Posted By: Mike Kelly from New Concord, NY on 2008 07 11
URL: http://www.hudsonunion.com

Mike
I believe they were Bunny’s own design and a custom order, but Battle Hill Forge can do anything you like. That is the fun about the forge--you can collaborate with them.
Dan

Posted By: Dan Shaw from Falls Village, CT on 2008 07 11
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A “before” photo at Bunny Williams’s garden with Battle Hill Forge cages

Two of the best-respected gardeners in northwestern Connecticut—Lee Link of Sharon and Bunny Williams of Falls Village—are both besotted with handmade metal ornaments made by the young fellows at Battle Hill Forge in Falls Village. “I learned about them when I was shopping for plants at the Falls Village Flower Farm,” says Link, whose garden has been featured in several magazines and as part of the Garden Conservancy Open Days. “I saw their wattle and I thought it was brilliant.” Wattle is a type of woven fencing that you see in high-end garden catalogs that is used to create define parterres of to elegantly organize a vegetable or cutting garden. “I had the traditional wattle that is made out of twig and disintegrates after a year or two which is most distressing. This wattle should last forever.” Link has pieces made to her specification so she could create triangle beneath a trio of clipped Korean lilacs, planting the alternate sections with pansies and lettuces for the spring Williams, who is one of Link’s best friends, worked with the team at Battle Hill to design whimsical cages for staking dahlias and tomatoes in her vegetable-and-cutting garden. “They’ll look much better this summer when the plants start to fill out,” promises Williams’ chief gardener, Eric Ruquist, who invited us back to take more photos later in the season.
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The iron wattle fences by Battle Hill Forge in Lee Link’s mini-parterre in Sharon.