A bed of tulips underplanted with snapdragons, themselves underplanted by pansies, offered a subject too colourful to resist. Continue reading “Tulips, Snapdragons and Pansies”
Violas and Petunias
Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Wordless Wednesday: Bedazzling
Pavement Flowers: Taraxacum officianale
Keeping Fondren Funky: Tree Art by Bill Taylor
It’s standard practice to cut down living trees and make them into painted fences or decorated trinket boxes, but rare to leave a dead tree standing and turn it into sculpture. Continue reading “Keeping Fondren Funky: Tree Art by Bill Taylor”
Where Was I?
It’s the season for quizzes. Half of these pictures were taken in Mississippi and half in England. Â Can you guess which is which? Continue reading “Where Was I?”
Colourful Pavement Garden In Lancashire, England
I’ve been fascinated by the use of containers clustered together to create the illusion of a garden since my first visit to Japan where the style is widespread. This fine example of a container garden is much closer to home.
Diminutive, but for me, as sweet as they come, it brightens up the entrance to a traditional stone-faced terrace that opens directly on to the pavement. Continue reading “Colourful Pavement Garden In Lancashire, England”
Susan Rushton 