CORPORATE WOMAN & HER LANDSCAPE

CORPORATE WOMAN had to meet on a weekend, she's always at work. From her address I knew she wasn't far and the homes are charming brick/stone from the 1930's. Three steps into her frontyard she burst through the frontdoor to greet me. Within moments we were holding hands, fingers entwined, entering her foyer, below. CORPORATE WOMAN makes cloche gardens, above, to relax. She makes a limited number each year and sells them all.

CORPORATE WOMAN is eclectic, likes still-life, ivory ironstone, old pitchers, sterling. I adore having clients with sure interior design taste. It dictates landscape shapes for garden rooms, paths, and lawns. With quantities of antique white ironstone it was obvious CORPORATE WOMAN will have oodles of white flowering shrubs, trees, & vines in her landscape.

CORPORATE WOMAN decorates with nature. The petals, above, falling from an arrangement of branches she forced into bloom. Mental note, CORPORATE WOMAN wants a landscape to use as a cutting garden.

Talk turned to food. CORPORATE WOMAN sent me home with Ina Garten. Her favorite landscape picture, above, will be her landscape. Now, her landscape is overexposed.

We spent a couple of hours on the swinging bed, above. Conversation? CORPORATE WOMAN single handedly put the HIP in hippie. A confident life supporting herself, raising a son, moving on from toxic men, marriages, jobs. She'll be in Italy this summer, with BELOVED & SON, for 2 weeks. SON, graduating college this year, continues in Europe another 2 weeks. A gift from CORPORATE WOMAN.

Focal points, subsidiary focal points, garden rooms, paths, terracing, trees, axis are already in CORPORATE WOMAN's landscape. And they're well done. Something's missing, the landscape isn't working.

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Evergreen walls. Her landscape falls apart without them.

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In addition: one pathway will be changed from a 'V' shape to a 'U' shape, focal points will be repositioned slightly, a few 'cute' things will be removed, sheets of ivy removed, a friendship gate to her neighbor's garden will be built and a viewing terrace added at the back of her property overlooking a woodland park and cemetery.

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I know I'll be swinging on the hanging bed again with CORPORATE WOMAN. Perhaps I should have taken the offered wine and then blogged. Darlings, there was some hot, hot, and hotter talk.

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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara