Tuesday, June 30, 2009
CLOCHE SALE
Monday, June 29, 2009
SPO: HOME, GARDEN, TEA
SPO & CAPE COD have successfully down-sized from their large home yet already feel the difference in living larger, richer, simpler, lives.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
GARDEN TOOLS**GARDEN ART
Thursday, June 11, 2009
LANDSCAPE ECONOMY: ARBOR, GRILL, SINK
Sunday, May 31, 2009
COPYING & MAKING IT NEW IN THE LANDSCAPE
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Maybe I'll keep it for a month or years. Doesn't matter, I'm enjoying it now. 3 RULES FOR LANDSCAPES:
COPY + SIMPLICITY + REPETITION
No matter how many times it's been done before, if it's beautiful elsewhere it will be beautiful & unique in your landscape.
What is the saying? Non-fiction is a true story, myths are stories that happen over & over & over.... Landscapes are myths, at least mine is to me. How else to explain the grace my garden exudes? Using the 3 rules: copy, simplicity, repetition will give you mythical grace in your landscape.
Setting up the blue/white CHAOS DISPLAY, below.
Intentionally design your landscape to create impromptu Still Life, above.
Went to my favorite junk shop to complete the blue/white collection last Friday. I would tell you where but the friend who shared the shop with me did so with a demand, Do not tell anyone about this shop.
Pic, above, is not styled. The box was awkwardly heavy & I set it on my patio table to begin arranging the Chaos Display. Magazine shoots are fine but I delight, especially, in good pics not styled. The impromptu of life creating still life.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
Saturday, May 30, 2009
TEA PARTY IN THE LANDSCAPE
Thursday, April 2, 2009
PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR: The Old Garden
Monday, March 23, 2009
TUB: A PREDILECTION
Sunday, March 15, 2009
MENTORING: LUNCH
Thursday, March 5, 2009
A LANDSCAPE TO MAKE HER CRY
SHE called me to design her landscape. Her sprezzatura lost momentarily with a previous designer.
At the frontdoor natural light and her books. SHE, "When the Barefoot Contessa sashays into her garden I swoon."
SHE was dubious about the Giardino Segretto garden room. Until I said, It's where you'll drink scotch & wine with your girlfriends. Sold!
One of my landscape design secrets is to see which cookbooks are in the house. Why? They are a window into the soul. How you eat is how you live, and how you garden.
Interesting. SHE has 2 glass/metal tables. I copied the idea for enclosing a portion of her bluestone terrace. Using a mid-century modern greenhouse glass roof & folding door idea used at Callaway Gardens, Sibley Center.
An entire closet is devoted to dishes.
SHE went back to the Barefoot Contessa. "Every recipe of hers is foolproof. No matter how I forget to do something, don't quite beat the egg whites correctly, anything. Nothing I've cooked of hers, through the years, has failed."