{"id":528,"date":"2013-07-12T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T13:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2013-07-12T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:10:21","slug":"the-train-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/the-train-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Train Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joan had the recent privilege of working with a train enthusiast in Haymarket, VA.\u00a0 This client has always had an interest in trains and has displayed them during the Christmas season.\u00a0 Recently retired, he decided that expanding on his train collection would make a great hobby.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

With the help of Joan and crew, the homeowner was able to expand his collection into the back yard landscape.\u00a0 The goal was to create a nice outdoor landscape with a water feature and planting that would showcase the train in a subtle yet historically accurate way.<\/p>\n\"Boulders<\/a>\n

The portals on each side of the tunnel mimic real stone train tunnel entrances.<\/p>\n

\"Train<\/a>The main feature of this garden is the pondless waterfall.\u00a0 Water re-circulates through the boulder feature, tumbling over rocks, providing the enjoyable sight and sounds of running water without the maintenance of a pond.<\/p>\n\"Boulder<\/a>\n

The cars on this train are replicas of actual cars from the late\/post civil war period.\u00a0 The locomotive currently seen in this garden is a temporary fill in.\u00a0 The homeowner is trying to purchase a particular locomotive, ‘The General’.\u00a0 ‘The General’ is a steam locomotive that was involved in the Great Locomotive Chase of the Civil War.<\/p>\n

\"Train<\/a>What a great project and quite the conversation piece.<\/p>\n

\"Water<\/a>\"Echinacea,<\/a>Here are Joan and her clients admiring the finished product.<\/p>\n\"Fieldstone<\/a>\n

Any other train enthusiasts out there?<\/p>\n\"Landscape<\/a>\n

A special thank you to Liam McGranaghan for taking the great pictures.<\/p>\n

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Joan had the recent privilege of working with a train enthusiast in Haymarket, VA.\u00a0 This client has always had an interest in trains and has displayed them during the Christmas season.\u00a0 Recently retired, he decided that expanding on his train collection would make a great hobby. With the help of Joan and crew, the homeowner… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,4,17,41],"tags":[15,26,27,43,51,32,50,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}