Tag: Combinations
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snow enhancement
I didn’t have time to complete the winter theme for the deck containers. However, it’s amazing what a little “snow enhancement” does to an incomplete arrangement of rhododendron, winterberry, and magnolia branches. I had planned to gather some white pine and spruce to fill and finish the winter design. But alas….didn’t get done. Thank heavens for…
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Pattern and Texture found in Golden Gate Bridge Gardens
Golden Gate Bridge’s remarkably beautiful Southeast Side Gardens overlooking the bridge filled my eyes with plant combinations and filled my soul with textural details. (You know the phrase, “God is in the details”?) The leaf pattern of a plant unknown to me (it could native to South America, South Africa, or Europe’s Mediterranean Sea Area) fascinated and…
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Freezing here in New England while Roses in bloom in San Francisco
Visiting family in San Francisco over the weekend I took this image of the gorgeous park planting at the Golden Gate Bridge Park (not the official name–too jet lagged to look it up). Here in New England I return to making winter arrangements in containers, decorating for the holidays and trying to ignore the garden clean-up chores…
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Savoring Creative Play
I had fun Thanksgiving morning creating the table arrangement. Dashing outside (brrrrr) to clip leucothoe (a native New England broadleaf evergreen) from the garden to expand the grocery store bouquet, down to the storage room to find the gourd/leaf synthetic garland I used in the window box last year, and adding green candles found in my candle…
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Take a Moment to Notice the Autumn Light on the Plumes
As landscape designers, we create spaces to experience “outside” and a large part of that experience is creating planting combinations that work four seasons. This ornamental grass glows with the light of late afternoon and contrasts the deep maroon fall leaves and green conifer beyond. We imagine them, you get to take a moment and look…
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Charming Frost Colored Leaves
The sun highlighted this ‘Johnson’s Blue’ perennial geranium foliage when I went to fetch the Sunday paper. The spotlight shifted when I photographed it minutes later, but you get the idea of these brilliant lovely orange leaves complimented by the blue/gray dianthus, the brown astilbe, and the green chamaecyparis conifer foliage. Even though it’s mid November look for combinations…
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Texture Combinations in the Early November Garden
Today–this combination has ‘gone by’–the recent storm washed the orange foliage to the ground. However, for several weeks autumn color of the green leafed Japanese maple (acer p. d. ‘viridis’) and the ferns presented this lovely visual gift.
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Treat at our Feet in the Early November Garden
Wandering the gardens doing a bit of fall clean-up –cutting back some dead perennial foliage– I rediscovered this wonderful combination of creeping Thyme, fieldstone steppers, and Ladies Mantle. This composition of color and texture creates the view you only find at your feet from late April to at least early November.
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The Late October Garden Flowers Still
Roses and the blue aconitum bloom in concert with the now maroon oak leaves and frost bitten foliage.