11 Sunday Jul 2010
Posted in Beds
My sister just sent me this gorgeous photo of her finished ciel de lit…
She had picked up the dilapidated wooden frame for a song at the
Atelier de Campagne container sale last Spring …see here and here
I’ve also written about Suki’s “Belgian Garage” earlier here
and another post about her home here
A great find, with lots of elbow grease and DIY ingenuity…
and just a tad of diplomacy towards a hunting enthusiast husband….
Sweet Dreams!
10 Saturday Jul 2010
Posted in Gardens
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Glamis Castle…a David Austin English rose…
enveloped in a froth of Nepeta Mussinii Six Hills Giant…
A perpetual show as they tumble together artlessly
over the stone walls of the master bedroom patio…
Antique Biot jar on serene sun dappled summer patio…
At the Avignon home of artist Pascale Palun of Vox Populi…
Photos Henri Del Olmo
Coté Sud Avril-Mai 2010
Bits and pieces collected over the years
and cured over many seasons in the garden…
Just those few touches
that please the eye first thing in the
morning and last view at night…
The hillside needs tweaking, the pots another rub of color,
the creeping thyme is fitful and petulant. I’m waiting for
garden furniture to arrive, and lavender to bloom….
but when the air is crisp and bright and redolent
with the scent of the Madagascar jasmine
…summer is perfection
Big and little bees move industriously about…
bending the froth with their nimble touch..
Sans ruffles…
the huge poppy seed pods
Living outdoors…
Barely on the computer…
Loving July!
Hope you are all out…out …out…enjoying your summer!
04 Sunday Jul 2010
Posted in Gardens
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Hello all my wonderful readers!!!
I have gotten an amazing amount of work done in the yard…funny how stepping away from the
computer does that for you! The burly menfolk have left me happily alone to aesthetically tweak
the remains of their days here. Now all that’s left to do is water carefully until all the new
planting takes hold. Ideally all of this would have been done a month ago but… c’est la vie.
I had a spare Sombreuil rose at the back of my garden
that was getting a wee bit less sun then ideal, so I hauled
it up to the new sloped garden between the olive tree and an
Italian cypress and am babying it until it forgives me
for roughing it up in the middle of summer…
The new lavender on the slope is a month away from looking like this…
but we gardeners are always patient…
Still fussing over their top soil, checking carefully
Here in the lower garden the lavender intermingles happily
and carelessly with hardy geranium Ann Folkard…
Espaliered apple tree with “Libery” apples…
purported to be Thomas Jefferson’s favorite apple…
The bees were going wild
over this annual poppy…
a firecracker red….
The emerging poppy seed heads
make a beautiful dried arrangement…
and rattle with the seeds of next year’s crop….
Hope you are all picnic-ing and fair-ing and firework-ing happily away…
Happy Birthday, America!
