Create Nourishing Flourishing Home Utopias
Recipe for success!
This may sound simple, but often an view has to be created or space made in order to take advantage of focalization. I like a 4′ bench in most courtyard gardens since it is a diminutive size that can make an impact easily. Two people can just fit! The garden pictured is one I designed in Charleston, SC on Murray Boulevard. The 4′ bench is used as a focal point with carefully scaled plantings, including boxwoods to anchor the setting.
Wow! The Atlanta Orchestra Showhouse on Woodhaven is now open.
Italian Terrace’s enormous terra-cotta pots made it easy for Dargan Landscape Architects to look GREAT in the front entry. Logan Gardens in ADAC carries the line and they are made in Italy by gals who saved a village by finding a market for their splendid pots.
We love the showhouse which is a Phillip Trammel Shutze design from the 20’s and is many people’s favorite home. Norman Askins, architect, speaks at 10:30 am Thursday, April 26 about the esteemed architect’s works at an AOS brunch.
Showhouse is across form the Governor’s Mansion off West Paces Ferry.
Like a rock star who sings the same tune never tiring of the song, I feel the same about this garden at 55 Church Street, The Benjamin Phillips House, c1818 in Charleston, SC. Hugh and I were invited to aid in its transformation in the mid- eighties and today it stands as a proud example of a garden whose vision has been realized. Actually, it has looked great for 15 years! The owner sees to each detail and experiments with heat tolerant roses: such as climbing pink Cecile Brunner, whiite climbing Somruiel, and shrub rose LaMarne. Large flowered Clematis peep out to adorn a green wall and heavy white clusters of confederate jasmine hang around spectacularly for about 2 weeks.
It is a masterpiece, especially considering it was installed where a wasteland of concrete and chain link formerly resided.