View, below, from the Garden Room earlier this year.
Same view, below, last week.
My tiny property lives large because
I own the sky. How? Canopy & understory trees, walls of evergreens, floors of groundcovers/stone on axis from window views inside my home.
Vanishing Threshold. .
And, Dahlings, this is big, I stole the view, above. Those aren't my trees. La-Ti-Da.
.
Azalea 'George Tabor' is the pink flower you see. Soon blue mophead hydrangeas will be blooming. Later, rosy pink Sasanqua's will bloom.
.
By December I'll have the 4 Seasons view from this window.
.
(Tara's Trinity of the Southern Garden: Azalea, Hydrangea, Camellia. Plant my trinity and you won't go a day in the year without blooms. Included are oakleaf-Anna Belle-mophead-PG-Tardiva hydangeas & C. Japonica.)
.
Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
.
23 years in my home & these are the first pics from this view. Why? Since January interiors have been painted, kitchen & master bath remodeled, furnishings redecorated. Odd, new interiors creating new views of the garden. Susanne Hudson was hired to choose colors. Ha, that flowed into other changes. Love everything she's done. Salient fact, I gave her free reign. Total control. A blessing to get out of my own way and let Susanne create magic.
A landscape design, above, an illusion of country. Nature. Not one leaf is unconsidered. The dirt path? Part of the landscape design.
Inside, plenty of seating, lighting, & art.
Tables, cushions,
Inside the hedge, below, is my Bay Terrace.
Oakleaf Hydrangea blossoms unfurling, below, in the Bay Terrace.
The subtlety of my rule "Just Let It Touch", blossoms caressing, below, the adirondack chair.
Oakleaf Hydrangeas espaliered, below, at the bay window. Learned this trick in Italy at Lake Maggiori.
Did my garden make you curious about seeing, below, inside?
Why give away your real estate? Foundation plantings are a tired concept. 
One espaliered shrub adds a lushness legions of sheared green meatballs will never approach.
fake stone, below,
were a few good things I saw last month at Lowe's.
I adore tented plant markets. There was a garden tour too.
Hay House, below.
Completed at the beginning of the Civil War Hay House was originally stucco.
Original Minton Co. tiles, below, at a back service area. 
For gardeners, in a world of the mundane, these events shine with character, intelligence, something new around the corner. 
Not large, perhaps the size of the one, above.
Does a garden keep you walking to see more? Exactly. That is mystery. 
used for kitchen scraps headed to the compost pile. (No dairy/meat dahlings.)
Same view, below, last week.
My tiny property lives large because I own the sky. How? Canopy & understory trees, walls of evergreens, floors of groundcovers/stone on axis from window views inside my home. Vanishing Threshold. 
a gift from COLLEGE BOY.
A sundial I haven't noticed in years. It's placed 'off exhibit' knowing it's easy to have too much STUFF in my garden.
With Chinese Snowball petals falling
my sundial decided to be seen, if only momentarily. Sweet surprise.
Your home says who you are, whether you think so or not. Consider: views into windows, paint color, shutters, vines/espalier shrubs on house walls, light fixtures, door hardward, roofing choices. All are focal points.
Paths, below, are always a focal point. Here, saturated with gate & peak of season blooms. Can you hear the crunch, below, of gravel?
