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Jun 3, 2022Liked by Jan Johnsen

I so agree -- I love the juxtaposition of the work by the human hand and the natural when you put an urn in a bed. I discovered this by accident a few years ago when we parked a client's urn and pedestal in a bed to get them out of harm's way during work -- and then loved the look! I recently convinced a client with a modest front stoop and two mismatched planters -- an urn and a box -- to select matched planters and then move the urn into the back shade garden! With white dipladenia and some trailing Lysimachia nummularia (and a little golden oregano), it's a bright light there but there's room for other color to be used in the bed. If a pair of urns or pots is no longer a pair due to damage or breaking, it's worth trying the one that's left in a garden vignette.

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I so agree -- I love the juxtaposition of the work by the human hand and the natural when you put an urn in a bed. I discovered this by accident a few years ago when we parked a client's urn and pedestal in a bed to get them out of harm's way during work -- and then loved the look! I recently convinced a client with a modest front stoop and two mismatched planters -- an urn and a box -- to select matched planters and then move the urn into the back shade garden! With white dipladenia and some trailing Lysimachia nummularia (and a little golden oregano), it's a bright light there but there's room for other color to be used in the bed. If a pair of urns or pots is no longer a pair due to damage or breaking, it's worth trying the one that's left in a garden vignette.

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