Tuesday, November 24, 2009

SURROUNDED BY GARDEN

Upstairs, below, is my office window. Surrounded by garden.

3 project (antique) tables, 5 bookcases, 5 chairs, pair French doors, mantel, chandelier, 9 lamps, for starters. Quite satisfying until I saw this, below.



If this were my office, above, this would be its backdoor, below, entry.



OK. I am teasing. But I won't always. Before pics are being taken. My backdoor & garden room will be unveiled late 2010. My atelier? Same timeline.
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Oh, the anticipation. Life is good.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Bottom pics found via this fabulous place. Top pic truly is my garden & upstairs office window. It faces a sideyard garden room with pond, potager, arbor, flagstone terrace, encircled by evergreen hedge, & scented by 6 mature tea olive. For a moment, do you think I see my cluster home subdivision abutting my tiny arcadia? Denial may be good but a garden is better.

5 comments:

  1. What plants did you use for your hedge?

    By the way, the fogger I referred to in an earlier comment is just Raid or some other pesticide fogger. I don't like the smell of foggers, but I find that spraying them about, then retreating for a while, makes them workable. Helps in those mosquito-ish areas of the yard where a fan is impossible.

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  2. A plebian hedge Kathleen. Literally bought 'Plant of the Week', $1.97 each. Needing 42 evergreen, full-sun plants, growing to 6'.

    Cleyera. In a perfect world, without checkbook issues, they would be Camellia sasanqua.

    XO Tara

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  3. Hi Tara,

    Can't wait to see the unveiling. Gorgeous pictures.

    ~janet

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

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  4. A garden is resplendent in color and foliage no matter where it might happen to be, in my humble opinion!
    Brenda

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  5. Oh, you're so naughty! I'd take ANY of those rooms, ANY day! Can't wait to see the unveiling!

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