ROSES: COMPANIONS & DOUBLE AXIS

This isn't the first famous landscape for ROSE. Downsizing house & garden, ROSE again hit it out of the park. Speeding up the process she knew to hire a designer, Brooks Garcia. ROSE mentored others by example. She could have done it on her own but it would have taken longer.
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Below, a narrow sideyard is made wider with stepping stones set on diagonal. The gate says, Welcome. ROSE came to gardening through a love of roses. Her beautiful landscape is merely a setting to show them off. A Southern matriarch in every good sense of the phrase, ROSE was nudged by her landscape into lecturing and opening her garden for tours.

Above & below, two views of the same narrow path. A double axis pair of pics.

Above, a child's sized bench enlarges the scale of the tiny foyer between frontdoor & sideyard.

Above & below, backyard pic looking left & looking right. Another double axis. ROSE lives in a cluster home neighborhood. Her landscape denies reality.

Above, it's no accident the benches have a curved back. The curve softens rectangular landscape design lines and reinforces a French essence.

Above, ROSE's family room window with sundial on axis and enfilade. Roses's over the window make the tiny area lush.

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Below, view from ROSE's family room window with Dancing Girl on axis and enfilade.
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Above & below are yet another double axis.

ROSE threaded many clematis, below, through her roses.

Above & below, clematis.

Below, subsidiary focal point. Remember 1 focal point per area.

Walls with 3D are more interesting, below.

This hand, below, charms me each time I look at it. So many metaphors and it follows the 3D landscape design rule for walls. Which metaphors do you see?

The first time I met ROSE was through an invitation to see her garden, with Penny. Of course it was a hot, humid summer day. We began inside ROSE's home. Three steps inside the frondoor I felt like I'd known ROSE always. Delighting upon antiques, art, books, garden views, & stories. ROSE invited us to refreshments at the breakfast room table overlooking the back garden through French doors. Icy cool water, tea, soda, and pound cake left from a recent lecture program. Remembering, especially, the antique silver pitcher of icy water covered in beads of condensation.

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Conversation, laughter and anticipation of soon seeing ROSE's garden.

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The garden didn't disappoint.

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More pictures of ROSE's garden are in my book, Beautiful by Design.

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XO Tara