04 Saturday Jun 2011
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The best of the batch this year…rescued from late rains…
The Alameda Flea market is pushed out to June 12th here
Big Daddy’s Antiques is having a big container sale unloading in SF today here
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend…whatever your weather!
Wet…wet…wet out here in Northern California!
I might just crawl back to bed with a good book!
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Update: visit my friend Karin in Périgord, France
at La Pouyette here for her wonderful post about peonies!
Pure…poetry!
26 Thursday May 2011
Posted in Gardens
More Spring rains…
A quick garden view…
Peonies bent low in their garden beds…
The daisies underfoot are egigeron…the “Santa Barbara Daisy” …
easy growers that find their own way through the garden borders.
The blooms are so heavy with rain that I’ve
decided to clip a dozen or so peonies to bring inside…
Kansas, Sarah Bernhardt, and Vivid Rose blooms…
Have water in the bucket before I clip…
anything to extend the blooms!
Will re-cut the stems underwater once inside…
Keep them in a cool place…out of the sun…
In the twenty years since I’ve designed and planted and tended
this garden…this is the latest that the peonies have bloomed!
A very, very cool, wet, and late Spring!
23 Monday May 2011
Posted in 18th century, Gardens
A line of 18th century portraits hung sparely
alongside one another…
The perfection of striped gilded chaise and parquet floor…
This 18th century Venetian églomisé mirror
and the photo above are from Frédéric Méchiche’s
Paris apartment in the January 1994 issue
of World of Interiors photographed by René Stoeltie.
Love the chalky walls, the sense of restraint
the lure of that one extravagant find…
Frédéric Méchiche again…this time for French pop star Karen Cheryl in Paris Objet Trouvé here
One of those small but perfect little books…
Edgy, eclectic, virtuoso pairing of pedigreed antiques with plucky finds…
René and Barbara Stoeltie photography
I am trying to keep you amused whilst awaiting the
Big Extravagant Peony Event. It’s about this time of year
that I start having dark thoughts about whether
these hard to bloom plants are worth their space.
Thirty plants. Twelve plants in bud. The air is heavy with
anticipation, and an unseasonable chill.
Another rumor of rain!
Here’s a Vivid Pink peony about to explode…
That’s nice…but I want this!
The borders on either side…still waiting…
