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Whimsical.
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Copying a seemingly staid Garden Design Rule.
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What rule is that?
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Pic, above, here.
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Paint your garden furniture & accessories same color as your house trim/shutters. Have loved this 'rule' for decades.
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Here, they've done more than classically phone-it-in-garden-design.
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They've let the color carry the weight of architecture.
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Does your garden tell me who you are at the curb? Check.
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Is your garden so incredible I must go inside and see your home? Check.
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It's one thing to deeply, truly, adore a color. Another, entirely, to wield that color across your realm. No fear. Life is short, wield your color.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Irma residue is almost put away on our property. Living in our ca. 1900 home for 2 years, we've done little Garden Design, it's mostly roads/drainage/shed renovations/drilling a well/pond updating/clearing invasives etc. My personal gardening consists of a pair of aloe plants in terra cotta, and an echeveria a friend gave me, repotted into terra cotta. Three little souls in terra cotta. Last weekend, watering my trio on the back deck, they did spend Irma inside the house, I noticed one of the aloe did not fit in its pot, it was dwarfed by its pot by .5" diameter. Hmm.
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Yard a debris field with fallen limbs, a new roof at the back of the house, lots of men covering ground here. Hmm. They are our men, all on our team. Several employed by Beloved loooong time. Hmm. Thinking this one thru, my little aloe in its new pot. If any of the men had broken the pot, I would have been told, "Miss Tara........" Days pass. Approached Beloved, on the deck, we were grilling dinner, "My aloe vera is in a new pot, and I know who did it." He's looking at me all stoic, his Mona Lisa smile something his mom would recognize about age 6. "You did it." A day prior, I repotted that aloe vera into another terra cotta pot, an exact fit. He looks at the pot, "If I had found a pot to fit, would you have known?", "No.", "How did you know it was me?", "The men always tell me when something happens.", "Hit it when I was blowing the deck.", "5 acres, loads of men, new roof, tree limbs, I'm a Garden Designer with 3 tiny potted plants to her name, you thought I might not notice?"
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Why are these type of stories so deeply amusing? He almost got away with it. Would have been fine if he had....
