Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Sunday Yardwork.
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| Paintings by one of my favorite artists Kelly Reemtsen. I absolutely adore her work. |
Today is yardwork day...planting season is right around the corner, so we must clean and prepare and weed, so that SOMEDAY we might have a beautiful garden. You have to start somewhere. I will probably just be weilding a shovel and hose, a little afraid of the chainsaw (that would be husband's department!) Have a great sunday.
Beautiful Gardens, Pots and Plants
Shiny Friday is here. Today we'll leave our lovely interiors for a while and enjoy some of Martha Stewart's great ideas for gardens, plants and pots. Have fun!
Pansies and their cousins violas are among the most popular garden plants, adding color, whimsy, and grace to a bed, a border, or steps.
Instead of the usual sphagnum moss or coconut fiber, line a hanging planter with canna or hosta leaves.
Gardeners everywhere have opened their eyes to hydrangeas' intricate beauty, abundant summer-into-fall bloom, and obliging tolerance of some shade
Dress your potted plants in a picket fence made from clothespins.
Bushel baskets from the garden center make charming and inexpensive containers. Their wooden slats provide built-in drainage, and they can be recycled after the plants have had their season in the sun. As autumn draws to an end, the entire basket can be composted once the wire handles are removed.
Give each herb its own personalized pot, and you'll never snip the wrong sprigs.
A vintage wooden cupboard provides handsome storage for gardening supplies.
When the garden is especially exuberant, it seems you can never have enough vases. Make a matching set of vessels by painting metal cans in muted hues.
Flower pots and windowsills, a perfect match.
Dogwood branches are arranged in an antique Japanese wicker backpack.
Various English hybrid delphiniums, orange Alstroemeria 'Ligtu,' blue Geranium 'Nimbus,' and white-flowering Clematis recta 'Purpurea,' which adds its dark foliage to the mix.
Pansies and their cousins violas are among the most popular garden plants, adding color, whimsy, and grace to a bed, a border, or steps.
Instead of the usual sphagnum moss or coconut fiber, line a hanging planter with canna or hosta leaves.
Gardeners everywhere have opened their eyes to hydrangeas' intricate beauty, abundant summer-into-fall bloom, and obliging tolerance of some shade
Dress your potted plants in a picket fence made from clothespins.
Bushel baskets from the garden center make charming and inexpensive containers. Their wooden slats provide built-in drainage, and they can be recycled after the plants have had their season in the sun. As autumn draws to an end, the entire basket can be composted once the wire handles are removed.
Give each herb its own personalized pot, and you'll never snip the wrong sprigs.
Use beach pails to hide less attractive flowerpots within.
Create custom cabinetry in your garden shed with vintage wine crates.
A vintage wooden cupboard provides handsome storage for gardening supplies.
When the garden is especially exuberant, it seems you can never have enough vases. Make a matching set of vessels by painting metal cans in muted hues.
Flower pots and windowsills, a perfect match.
Dogwood branches are arranged in an antique Japanese wicker backpack.
Various English hybrid delphiniums, orange Alstroemeria 'Ligtu,' blue Geranium 'Nimbus,' and white-flowering Clematis recta 'Purpurea,' which adds its dark foliage to the mix.
Along a drive, Lombardy poplars soak up most of the water. Spring-blooming bulbs -- Spanish bluebells, Dutch iris, and daffodils.
Morning haze heightens the pinks of these roses.
Garden at Martha's Turkey Hill home.
Create a rustic, richly textured presentation by placing a vase of lush flowers in terra-cotta pots adorned with tree bark.
All images from Martha Stewart.
I have linked this post over at Jerri's Friday Favourites Party, Melissa's The Inspired Room and Laurie's Saturday Favourite Things. Thanks once again Jerri, Melissa and Laurie!
Floral Park Apremont-sur-Allier
Second post for you today.
Floral Park Apremont-sur-Allier, in France, is simply breathtaking. Open to the public in 1977, it receives around 40,000 annual visitors. Here is part of the story behind it.
As a teenager, Gilles de Brissac visited England and and was spellbound by its wonderful gardens. At the end of the summer of his fifteenth birthday, Gilles returned to France and started passionately to restructure the gardens of the family castle in the Chevreuse Valley, under the watchful eye of his mother May, Duchesse de Brissac. Continuing his training, especially alongside Russell Page and Charles de Noailles, and perfecting his taste by visiting gardens around the world, Gilles becomes a professional landscape gardener.
Thirty years later, he became a landscape painter, and created one of the most beautiful parks in France.
Until his death in 2002, Gilles de Brissac continued refining his work. Today, the torch was taken over by his sister, Elvira.
The pergola is covered with white, fragrant clusters of wisteria, Wisteria floribunda 'Alba'.
Photography by Patrick Smith.
All images and information from here.
A lovely weekend to you my friends!
Floral Park Apremont-sur-Allier, in France, is simply breathtaking. Open to the public in 1977, it receives around 40,000 annual visitors. Here is part of the story behind it.
As a teenager, Gilles de Brissac visited England and and was spellbound by its wonderful gardens. At the end of the summer of his fifteenth birthday, Gilles returned to France and started passionately to restructure the gardens of the family castle in the Chevreuse Valley, under the watchful eye of his mother May, Duchesse de Brissac. Continuing his training, especially alongside Russell Page and Charles de Noailles, and perfecting his taste by visiting gardens around the world, Gilles becomes a professional landscape gardener.
Thirty years later, he became a landscape painter, and created one of the most beautiful parks in France.
Until his death in 2002, Gilles de Brissac continued refining his work. Today, the torch was taken over by his sister, Elvira.
The pergola is covered with white, fragrant clusters of wisteria, Wisteria floribunda 'Alba'.
Photography by Patrick Smith.
All images and information from here.
A lovely weekend to you my friends!
Great Outdoor Ideas
Good morning to you dear readers. Today I've put together quite a number of photographs with lots of ideas for decorating your outdoor spaces. Porches, patios, balconies, terraces and some gardens. They surely will get you into the mood to step outside, arrange your pots and plants and enjoy the good weather.
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I tend to shy away from shocking pink but I love the way it looks here!
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Those little head pillows are a great idea for these deck chairs for two reasons: they won't slip down behind you when you lean forward and I'm sure my crafty friends would find them easy to make!
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These easy to roll up wood Venetian blinds are a good idea to get the shade you need just right.
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Love the colour on these walls.
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Love the arches and combination of brick and stone.
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Pretty little spot to relax and read.
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All images from micasa.
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I tend to shy away from shocking pink but I love the way it looks here!
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Those little head pillows are a great idea for these deck chairs for two reasons: they won't slip down behind you when you lean forward and I'm sure my crafty friends would find them easy to make!
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These easy to roll up wood Venetian blinds are a good idea to get the shade you need just right.
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Love the colour on these walls.
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Love the arches and combination of brick and stone.
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Pretty little spot to relax and read.
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All images from micasa.
Interiors and Gardens by Sandy Koepke
Interior and garden designer Sandy Koepke works in Southern California. I love all of her rooms and outdoor spaces. Maybe you do too.
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All images from Sandy's portfolio right here.
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All images from Sandy's portfolio right here.
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