Credentials I have, yet my true Garden Design education spanned 2+ decades and several continents.
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Smiled when I saw this, below.
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France gave me 2 huge arenas of learning, 1 is below.
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MonoColoring.
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Language is no barrier to studying the best historic gardens across the globe. Gardens speak Gardenese.
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Applying a French Garden Design lesson, below.
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If you field gather garden chairs, no worries about style, beyond comfort of course, paint them all the same color.
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This lesson holds true at every price point home, castle, gated community, farm, villa, pied a terre, section 8 apartment balcony, townhome, even in my little working class cluster home neighborhood.
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Chairs, below, have a choice of colors for monocoloring. Use trim color from the house, or an interior color that is prominent in the best artwork owned or from the carpet, perhaps a wall color.
Of course more needs to be done, above, in this sweet garden room.
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Vine maintenance, above, is about a month overdue. Bring a ladder to the French doors landing, with jackhammer drill, mortar screws, galvanized wire, install, finally, threading vine across top of French doors.
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Stay there, and hang the lantern, from the second step, centered above the French doors with the bottom of the lantern hanging 3 courses of bricks above the top of the French doors.
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Done with the ladder, put a level on the pot at the right of the French doors and get it level.
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Finally, use some spare bricks from home construction and raise the serving table, next to the house, 4 bricks high.
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All of these changes, are what my brain does, all of the time, driving or looking at Pinterest. My brain 'fixes' gardens. A well-honed skill.
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My brain can rest from this particular form of Garden Design OCD when camping at beach/mountains, and joyfully in my friends gardens.
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When a client garden is headed for Garden Tour it is amazing the to-do list we create for an already fabulous garden. Pages long.
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If your garden is ready for a garden tour, but you've not done one yet, I strongly encourage you to do it. Your garden will go to another level.
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You will never have been so driven in your life, promise. Aside from weeks of exhaustion and hunting/gathering, your checkbook will provide, in a manner that feels like Zen but prior to the tour felt like fear. It gets worse, you will begin new garden layers, to be finished prior to the tour, you never anticipated. Providence, supplying epiphanies and inspirations, and you will be Peasant in Chief, happy to oblige.
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Did you just smirk at this?
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Then YOU are the one that will do all described. Promise.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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