Can anyone abide another magazine caption mentioning all you see? Note, below, ivy clad walls, shuttered French doors, and etc ad naseam. Why do magazines do this to beautiful garden pics? A Tara Dillard caption, below.
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This garden, below, is a college course in vanishing threshold, combining home and garden into a moat of grace & joy for living. (For starters.) This garden, below, is pure narrative of the owner's character.
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I could write 5 fabulous captions with this pic but it's not where I'm going today. Can you 'see' to create this when it does not exist?
Earlier this year I designed a landscape for this home, below. A second garden design for this family, they popped out of their first home when baby #2 was born.
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Realizing the need for flow, below, was instant. How to achieve it too.
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Most homes have, below, yet most homeowners want, above.
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What would you do, below, to achieve, above?
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There is zero connection from steps to lower back door, and there is a stoppage of flow with distance to lower back door. Aside from zero invitation to be in this zone.
Soon, a flagstone terrace will stretch from steps to end of the home, French doors will replace the double-hung windows, and the terrace will infill under the covered porch.
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Flow.
Obviously more than Flow needed in their Landscape Design. Notice, above, how their new terrace is wrapped in privacy from the neighbors.
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Hand drawn Landscape Design, on site. Myriad more brain regions tapped than sitting in an office at the computer.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Top pic via Pinterest. Bottom pics taken at jobsite this week. Edited drawing to remove client info. Designing on site, by hand, does not make me a better Landscape Designer than anyone. But the science holds true of methods used vs. brain regions tapped. Need all the help I can get !
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2 comments:
You've gotten me thinking again about flow from our slate patio round to the side yard and in the side door.
What would you do for a door step where one was never built when house was remodeled? Pour cement? It's not high up. I'm thinking I have to do it myself!
Have a piece of stone cut to proper scale. If you pour cement have slate mortared on it.
XOT
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