What a great way to start your garden tour weekend. Love this garden and all the things they put in it. Fun to see you are warming up to the idea of seeing ornament in the garden. The artful placement of their "stuff" has a lot do do with it. Indeed, placed where it blends rather than screams for attention, unless of course it is meant to scream for attention I love how they modified the back of the house and all the accoutrement.
I would LOVE to have windows that open like that off the back of our house. Of course that would mean our bedroom and I suppose inviting all the creepy crawlys in might not be the best idea. I don't even remember seeing the mussel shell rack with the Tillandsias on it, what a great idea! I could do something like that with all the stones I keep digging up whenever I plant. I've seen it on a couple of other blogs now. I wish I had been on an earlier flight, I barely had time to really check out this garden.
Plus, I was focused on saying hello to people I hadn't seen for two years but that I regularly "see" on Facebook, or on their blogs. Thanks for showing me more of what I missed. It was way way back in the corner, you probably never made it back that far. At least you got there right? Could have been worse Looks amazing! Art in the garden is so subjective and something I have not yet used but hope to some day. For now the "Homie Gnomes" will have to do. I am going to get so many ideas from these posts Love it -- and love seeing these gardens through so many different sets of eyes.
True, you are bound to get a good degree perspective with all the different reviews! I loved Shirley's garden. It was so different to anything I have seen in the UK and filled my head with ideas. Ornamentation seemed to be quite a theme of the gardens we visited. You are right Helen, almost every one had some sort of ornamentation, even the Ruth Bancroft Garden got into the action with the sculpture show. I don't think I ever realized that the underside of that porch was tin!
Lots of revelations for you from this garden. I love it when that happens. I have such tunnel vision and never looked up at the outside paint colors of their house -- same colors as my own, including the purple roof trim. That steel blue fern was amazing. Hope somebody can ID it.
