Archive for July, 2007
French Provincial Garden Plants
July 30th, 2007When planning a French provincial garden, start by thinking about the French! What comes to mind? Good food, laughter, a certain arrogance, a sense of style, love-making, passion, fiery arguments, intense rural life hidden behind shutters … these and others are the emotional notes that need to fill your garden, as well as the visual, […]
French Provincial Furnishing
July 27th, 2007The French Provincial style is very rustic, warm, deeply cozy and extremely appealing to gardeners because it is can be created on a reasonable budget. To develop this style, start with a key feature, such as garden furniture and work outwards as and when you can afford new items. After your furniture, buy some copper […]
What is Style?
July 24th, 2007It’s difficult to say, isn’t it? We all know that we’re supposed to have a personal style, but what it is, and how it manifests itself, isn’t so obvious. As we get older and move away from the insistence of fashion into understanding what suits us and makes us feel comfortable, our clothing style tends […]
What is your garden style?
July 21st, 2007Good question. Most of us inherit our gardens, or they come with the house we fall in love with, and so - unlike our wardrobes and our love lives - they don’t tend to get made over every couple of years! Here’s a simple quiz to begin to define the elements of your own garden […]
Garden style
July 17th, 2007It isn’t that I don’t like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
-Vita Sackville-West (1892 - 1962)
And that quotation could stand as the marker of all that we try to do in our gardens. We like disorder, riotous colours, scents, borders spilling onto paths, we like laughter emerging from darkness studded by tiny […]
