His mother's hands, above, at a new stone table in the garden.
Sunflowers
ZARKO grew.
ZARKO recently won a state horticulture competition. His plans are landscape architecture at university.
ZARKO is staying several weeks with
SPO & CAPE COD this summer. He's the beloved nephew/son
SPO never had.
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Adding to SPO's landscape design Friday included ZARKO. He'll build a dry-stack stone wall, & a short flagstone path, on axis from living room seating to views thru the glass frontdoor. And the flagstone seating area cut into the slope for 2 Adirondack chairs shown yesterday.
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SPO is sweeter than I. She asked ZARKO if he wanted to work in the garden. He's a kindred spirit so I knew, without hesitation, yes he wants to build stone walls & terraces in her garden.
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English is new to ZARKO and how he uses it is humbling. I sent ZARKO a few questions last night knowing I wanted to post his pics for you.
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Below, ZARKO in his own words.
"Around my house growing willow, buxsus, larch, euonimus, forzicia, siringa, wild lemon, hydragea, cedar, from fruit tree I have a apple, plum.
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I have 18 years I am born Jan/11 1991.
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The competition name was Hortus-this was state competition. Agronomy school of unyversity of Zagreb concetration in landscape arhitecture!!!
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Garden for me is place where I feel comfortable and it calms me. The garden is for me an essential part of life as only it can bring the body and mind in the stage of satisfaction and happiness. It will be like in the garden and tries something new, or growing, or attempt to produce something my.
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Garden is usually a reflection of a man and his way of life.
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I love the relationship between the garden and the house which is to breathe as one, must be connected.
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In the garden I also like What is life coming insects, animals that I love.
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garden can be a lot to do, very different styles, such as a small artistic work,and I love in gardens because it can turn into something completely different with a little effort.
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Cooking is my second to do that also is very interesting and full of new things that will constantly discover. I love experimenting and trying to make up your prescription. Cooking is especially because it does not need too much effort just imagination. Cooking is interesting because it can be synchronized with the garden, you cook food what you have in the garden. I was just interesting to create something from nothing
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.I and the music we have on you, I have a lot of rhythm, which sometimes have to spend in the club. my taste for music is diverse like that music is good quality and that is interesting. I love all things depending on the situation of. I do not have anyone who is my favorite, just like everything.
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My ideal career would be to work individually and to have some sort of freedom in the work .. but I would work on the design of gardens, and leisure would work in my garden that would certainly be perfect.
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I steel don't now my ideal job, I have not thought that far! but of course to me to abstain, and a bit of selfishness,and of course that I'm not poor."
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Sentences ringing of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. From a teenage Croatian boy learning English. Again, ZARKO humbles me. And to his parents? Thank you. SPO? Thank you.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
Before entering the frontdoor, below, entering Chatsworth by bus.
Water For Dogs? Chatsworth had my heart before my feet hit the ground.
What to do? Paint. Found the 'gates' at Scott Antique Market years ago. They are late Victorian fence sections from Egypt. I put 2 nails into a post & with galvanized wire attached them. They're non-functioning, always open. 
Gathered a few chips to color match at Lowe's.
My newest gate, above, from Rustic Rooster in Loganville, GA. There is no fence only the abelia hedge. Yes, you knew what color I would paint it, posted here.
Prune to shape but DO NOT WHACK.
Most will shift in a year's time. I bought a pen sized level and straighten brick edging, benches, plinths, urns, & statues each year.
PUPPET BARBUDA wants to see a new flower show competition division. Six gardens with the same design executed in whatever plant materials & hardscape & focal points & furnishings, a designer fantasizes.
Her gold Rudbeckia fulgida fulgida has been blooming July-Dec. ever since, in my garden, above.
A bird planted the spring English daisy, above. Recognizing a true landscape designer, I kept it. 
Same chair, above, fall view from my office. 
Early summer, above, hydrangeas start and Rudbeckia fulgida fulgida are 1' high.
Thinking of all the ways I've seen its incarnations, playing the LANDSCAPE DESIGN GAME. How would the pic, above, look without its pot and placing the statue, below, instead?
Really stuff the top pic. Where would you place the bench and 2 pots with gumball evergreens, below?
Perhaps the top pic has no pot and this plaque, below. Changes everything, yes?
What is your interior design tossing into the landscape? A boring, unwelcoming, back of a couch? Backside of a large screen TV? Picture frames on a table, from the backside? Oooooooooh. Nooooooooooooooooo. 
Above, an interesting pair of shorts. SHIPMAN found them, "the shorts are from The New Worker . They are called Blaklader. They are from Sweden. The blue ones I showed you are on sale for $27.00. Remember they run small. I would say 2 sizes small.
Embraced by history, land, books, cooking, music, technology, wildlife, family.
ZARKO is an old soul. Singing Carmen at age 5, wearing his sister's dress.
ZARKO made these photographs of his home.
His mother's hands, above, at a new stone table in the garden.
Sunflowers ZARKO grew.
ZARKO recently won a state horticulture competition. His plans are landscape architecture at university. ZARKO is staying several weeks with SPO & CAPE COD this summer. He's the beloved nephew/son SPO never had. 
where shade pools in late afternoon.
I designed SPO's landscape before she moved in. Summer & drought pushing shrubs & trees to fall planting.
Slight slope, below, 4 stone steps to a small stone terrace dug into the slope + 2 Adirondack chairs.
Playing, above, with exact scale: chairs, flags, string. Most plans drawn to scale say +/- 5'. Not good enough. (Note: string is superior to garden hose or spray paint; easily moved and laying exactly as placed.)
SPO served lunch.
SPO & her husband CAPE COD shared photos, she's from Croatia.
Yes, you do want to know how delicious this trifle was!!
"...this often ridiculous, awkward, unsatisfying and dour melodramatic adaptation."
