Thank you for these thoughts! I wish you could see my garden...I'm just south of Peekskill, in case you ever come this way. The 1,630 daffodil bulbs I planted this past fall are blooming everywhere, new peonies, and waiting on many azaleas and rhododendrons, with daylilies growing strongly...this August I will have been here 50 years...I wonder if the Garden Conservancy would be interested in my garden, or if it's just not "finished" enough...
Take care...it's a wonder, and an honor, to read your posts...to be connected to you a little bit...thank you so very much for your caring presence, wisdom, kindness, always sharing your exceptional visions of beauty...
I have the same sweet little birdbath and I love it. :-). Any tips on keeping the pesky groundhogs away welcome.. they are cute but eat all my flowers!
I, too, love this post. I use this concept of "smaller garden" for different areas of my larger 2 acre garden...I, too, have a Buddha, tucked under an almost 50 year old Serbian spruce, the first tree I planted here. My question is about the metal furniture. I have two vintage metal chairs...they are lovely, but I have not been able to figure out what color to paint them. Right now they are rusty white... I have thought of red, as there might be a red bridge in a Japanese style garden, but I don't have a bridge. I have thought of muted green or moss green. I know I don't want yellow, blue, black/brown.
I love the Buddha photo, and the dry stream bed...you must have moved, since I remember reading about the giant rock your husband wanted, was delivered and remained where they had put it (if I remember this story correctly!)...loved that story, because I, too, love rocks...
Love this blog post. I would love a post about adding texture to the garden - favorite grasses and plants etc? Because I feel like I’m always adding flowers but it needs balance.
Thank you for these thoughts! I wish you could see my garden...I'm just south of Peekskill, in case you ever come this way. The 1,630 daffodil bulbs I planted this past fall are blooming everywhere, new peonies, and waiting on many azaleas and rhododendrons, with daylilies growing strongly...this August I will have been here 50 years...I wonder if the Garden Conservancy would be interested in my garden, or if it's just not "finished" enough...
Take care...it's a wonder, and an honor, to read your posts...to be connected to you a little bit...thank you so very much for your caring presence, wisdom, kindness, always sharing your exceptional visions of beauty...
I have the same sweet little birdbath and I love it. :-). Any tips on keeping the pesky groundhogs away welcome.. they are cute but eat all my flowers!
I, too, love this post. I use this concept of "smaller garden" for different areas of my larger 2 acre garden...I, too, have a Buddha, tucked under an almost 50 year old Serbian spruce, the first tree I planted here. My question is about the metal furniture. I have two vintage metal chairs...they are lovely, but I have not been able to figure out what color to paint them. Right now they are rusty white... I have thought of red, as there might be a red bridge in a Japanese style garden, but I don't have a bridge. I have thought of muted green or moss green. I know I don't want yellow, blue, black/brown.
I love the Buddha photo, and the dry stream bed...you must have moved, since I remember reading about the giant rock your husband wanted, was delivered and remained where they had put it (if I remember this story correctly!)...loved that story, because I, too, love rocks...
Happy Spring!
Love this blog post. I would love a post about adding texture to the garden - favorite grasses and plants etc? Because I feel like I’m always adding flowers but it needs balance.