People spend a lot of time dreaming of foreverness -thinking that the “now” will last forever. It never does. Nature offers some flowers just one day- like the incredibly beautiful morning glory. It opens in the morning and enfolds by end of day. I planted morning glories a few years running until I discovered that although it’s a glorious flower, it’s born from a destructive invasive vine that returns and multiplies every year, even diminishing in its ability to bear flowers. I’ve grown more cautious with plant selection. And I’m still digging those vines out of the garden. Every plant
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Ladies Wearing Colorful Scarves
Why wait around when you too, can lose yourself in every color of the rainbow? Each one of these ladies has already indulged in at least one colorful scarf. Certain others have eluded my camera.
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Tomorrow is a New Day
My hard drive crashed yesterday. Wallowing in the depths of despair is neither fun nor attractive so I try not to. Happily, I always work with a back-up drive. It was however, several hours of freak time before Apple Support walked me through the place I currently sit- in the middle of restoring a corrupt hard drive.
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Communicating Garden Design Through Pictures
I’m not entirely sure how long I’ve been communicating with the world through pictures but I suspect it’s a habit as old as me. I love to draw and paint, and so communicating about a proposed garden design visually, makes perfect sense. Besides, I think better drawing.
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Relationship Building Through Home Remodeling
Renovating home and garden is challenging no matter how you do it. The real question is how do you arrive at remodeling solutions pleasing to both parties? The drawing above is a winter rendering showing some proposed iron gates so we can see how they’ll look in place.
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Tulsa Time
Fall in Connecticut is in full swing but we just flew into Tulsa this afternoon. Got off the plane and it was 85 degrees. Summer reset.
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Garden Inspired Home Décor
The hardscape of the new garden is done- just in time to plant some evergreens for the fall. While we wait for additional inspiration.
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The Bugs Stop Here
This week I was talking with someone who was against any kind of pest management. She was pleading for recognition that gardening was simply therapeutic. She just enjoyed working in the garden. I get it. I too, am a garden junkie- out there mindlessly engaged, and not too worried about much. Except bugs and their kind.
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Summer is Coming and With it, New Colors
This morning I could feel it. Summer is on its way. The trees are filling out, the birds and tree frogs are making noise in early morning and the robins are relentlessly building nests where they’re not allowed.
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This Spring Garden is Emerging Slowly
Litchfield, Connecticut flowers are still flirting with Spring. I took this photo in May 2015, after a hard rain. This year, I lost most of my tulips and the late bloomers are just coming in. The peonies have thrown up shoots and buds, waiting to be staked before their heads fatten and fall over from heavy, sweet flowers. And yes, the Japanese beetles are getting their fill on the last emerging hybrid lily leaves. I find and squash those bugs whenever I can. Pests.
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