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Rose Diet

22 Wednesday Feb 2012

Posted by Trish in 18th century, Gardens

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Gardening, Rayford Reddell Rose diet, roses, Textile projects, Toile rouge

Antique textiles

antique French textiles

From my personal textile collection…a rosy antique toile from Petitpierre…earlier post about rosy colored toile here. As you probably know by now, I favor 18th or early 19th floral textiles…particularly those with some added texture: embroidery, brocade, hand quilted. Wendy Lewis (Loody Lady) of the Textile Trunk here has a huge antique toile selection. Morgaine-la-Fay is the nom de plume of a UK textile dealer who sells on Ebay here as well and blogs here. The toile pieces above are from another UK textile dealer Sallie Ead who has a large collection of toile and early chintz and sells on Ebay UK here. I love how all three sources sell groups of smaller pieces that can be used for projects. Smaller, less perfect makes them easier to cut!  If you search Wendy’s listings by “project” you’ll get these wonderful, inspired grouping here. Though at heart I’m into neutrals…I love the deft mix of color and form! Garden design

I’m moving a bit closer in my thought process to a garden project that will be started in a few weeks. The start is figured out…it’s the end that I’m not quite sure of! I’ll be sharing a few favorite inspirations and more of my plans in the next few posts. One of my long time favorites is local San Francisco Bay Area garden designer Scott Colombo (photo from one of his garden’s above). Elle Decor has more wonderful photos of his work here

Antique roses

A plateful of some of my best blooms from last year…all antique Bourbon shrub roses. March is the time to start feeding our roses out here in Northern California. One of my favorite “Rose Diets” is Rayford Reddell’s here…though I improvise with Maxsea Seawead plant food here, occasionally alfalfa pellets, love “Walt Whitman” compost from American Soil Products here. I rarely (if ever) use insecticides or fungal sprays. I give my roses as much sun, fresh air (don’t overcrowd!), and good food as possible and have “pruned with a shovel” any that just seem too “precious” to thrive in my particular micro-climate! The deeper a rose’s color, the more sun it seems to crave…so I position my white roses in shadier areas. Photo below is a June glimpse of my first garden…designed over 20 years ago. Once the basic structure is in place for your garden…it just seems to age so beautifully!

Summer gardens

If you’re not a compost and alfalfa sort of a gal….if Paris in the Spring is more your thing….there’s still room in Jermaine’s French Kissed May Paris Shopping Party here and great photos on her Paris Shopping Give Away here

Maryanne at Beadboard UpCountry also has a great post about both Jermaine’s tour, and Kit of Chic Provence‘s Provence tour Going to France in Two Styles here. Beautiful photos from both ladies! Hope I’ve given you enough links to keep you busy!

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Happy Fourth of July

04 Sunday Jul 2010

Posted by Trish in Gardens

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Gardening, Summer garden


New Provence style garden Trouvais

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.

Old French rose

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…

July garden lavender

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

to not over or underwater it…

Here in the lower garden the lavender intermingles happily

and carelessly with hardy geranium Ann Folkard…

Liberty antique apple

Espaliered apple tree with “Libery” apples…

purported to be Thomas Jefferson’s favorite apple…

Poppy

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….

Poppies

Hope you are all picnic-ing and fair-ing and firework-ing happily away…

Happy Birthday, America!

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