Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Poem marriage is like a garden






The poppy bloomed, but it was so heavy it broke the stem ... I had to prop it up to take photos :(

Robert Nyman
Like, flowers

Like, flowers
Turtle on the Landing
It's always interesting to earwig on conversatio ns at a flower show, you can't really help it when there are so many visitors, and everyone's got their own ideas as to what makes a great show garden or exhibit. One comment I hear time and time again is how inspiring the gardens are and how they're going to try to copy 'that' colour scheme or 'this' style of planting. The thing that I'm going to take away and copy from this years show is not plants but paths. thyme_path.jpgThe back to back gardens are very good for hard landscaping ideas and I spotted a brick edged path in-filled with pebbles stuck into concrete, much like a mosaic. Or, there's a stone path with grass instead of mortar and something more contemporary, a metal grid suspended over a bog garden - almost like a bridge. However, the one that I'm going to copy at home is the path in 'The Garden for Bees'. It's a gravel path planted with an informal drift of thyme, which smells as good as it looks. The good news for me is that I've already got a gravel path, all I have to do is add the 'thyme' and once the flower show is over, I'll have the 'time' to do it.


Purple dahlia blossom with red rose - high resolution wallpaper.
In album Beautiful tropical flowers - Tropical orchids
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