As perfect as this entry, below, is I want to take it back
further. Do you know what I mean?
Drought & hi temps are the obvious diary entries upon each petal.
Cut the stems, peel off the foliage. Voila, ready to dry.
Lazy Woman's Guide to Drying Hydrangeas by Tara Dillard.
I like that the blossoms are not perfect.
Good size, weight & depth for this metal house, above/below.
Chinoiserie, below, what will it look like painted your color?
I don't have, below, this shape of cloche. Tempting, but it has plastic panes.
Prices comparable to a nursery. BUT, everything shown is 50% to 66% off. Oddly, most nurseries I go into don't have this merchandise.
Found my quarry, below, a small cloche.
In Italy I saw large urns filled with bronze plants used atop buildings as finials. Wish these metal flowers, below, came in more sizes. 
Smallest tray, below, $5.
3 size terra cotta pots, cheapest I've seen anywhere recently.
Classic pieces. Each will be unique in your garden.
Flowers begin white, fade pink, & will go beige at their conclusion.
Another oakleaf hydrangea, below, 5' away, in partial sun. Fading, with bits of pink, to beige.
White fading into beige, no hints of pink, a few crispy browns on foliage.
Tasha's cache pots & how she used them were 1 take away from the book I knew I had to copy.
Finally found one, top pic, this spring while lecturing in Richmond, VA. Three Swallows Antiques had a booth at the Flower Show.
Can you believe Richard W. Brown's photography, above? Looks like a painting.
"I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden." Tovah Martin's writing invites you to tea with Tasha Tudor.
I have yet to create a floral arrangement in my cache pot. Cat's are one excuse but, mostly, it's selfishness. Not wanting to take so much from my garden. 
Joni says, "I bought red toile because she did." (Joni's home, below.)
Joni says, "I collected English smalls because she did."
Joni says, "She bought Kenneth Turner candles, I bought Kenneth Turner candles."
Joni says, "I could go on & on how I tried to clone my aesthetic into hers, rather unsuccessully I'm afraid because true genius is not so easily stolen."
Scalamandre is an original toile used at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello?
A heavy linen, tea stained backdrop with deep India blue.
Yes, I'm a fabric junkie.
Not quite 2 yards, this lovely toile came into my possession yesterday. (Fortunately/unfortunately a consignment shop is enroute to my 5 mile speed walk at Stone Mountain Park. Obviously I must stop 1-2/mo.)
Unpriced, ugh, I had to ASK, "how much". Wanting it BAD I turned in an Oscar performance. She answered, "$5".
Oh my, the tree, above, takes my breath away. And the statue, and the stone terrace...
family room, kitchen, laundry. A solid wood door to the garage, above/below, WAS in the hall.
She replaced it with this door. Choosing seeded glass, and etching it, to block views of the garage. 
Literally !! On wheels, it moves daily.
If the eggs aren't washed they can be stored at room temp. Did you know that? It was news to me.
We designed architecture & landscape, decorated & styled with only items junked, rescued, borrowed. (Well, we did buy tin roofing, gravel & a few pots.)
Tiny, potent. Peek thru, below, see our potting table?
Leftover pavers from edging the gravel. Voila, a table. And a meadow, does it get any better? Yes, hearing the crunch of gravel, smelling the fragrance of meadow & woodland, sound of rain on tin, seeing the chandelier & lamps on at nite. Knowing you have a bolt hole.
Rescued culvert, above, has a new life, & the rescued chest, windows, shutter.
How calm the shutter looks, above, hiding the sink. Carpet, #89 granite gravel.
Nap, above, on the daybed in the Garden Room? Notice its pot feet? Having a chandelier & lamps is of utter importance.
Chandelier, for sale, alas borrowed from Le Jardin Blanc, hanging from the tin roof. Ugh, we had to buy the roof. Curtains? Jute erosion control fabric. Bedding borrowed from Susanne Hudson's home, & mine.
