My Newest Garden

“Flowers whisper “Beauty” to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.”

~Dr. Sun Wolf

As New England finally welcomes the sun after what feels like weeks of being waterlogged, I am moving right along with the design and  installation my new garden.  I am fortunate to have an expansive deck space that overlooks the ocean.  All of the  french doors from the interior open directly onto this outdoor living space.  Naturally that means I am color echoing all the interior colors with my flower selections.  Doesn’t everyone?

This newest adventure  marks my first time ever creating an entire garden without true earthly soil.  My challenge is to create a lush, layered and vibrant space using only containers.  I would love to bring you along for the journey!

First, a ‘before’ view.  This is the deck in its earliest stages of design.

Just as soon as the calendar would allow I made a trip to one of my favorite nurseries, Russell’s Garden Center in Wayland.  Highly recommended!

These are my soggy plants purchased on a rainy day with my friend Jen. The colors are fiery sunset hues of orange and poppy that coordinate with my indoor living room.

Can you see the hint of orange in the center of this poppy colored geranium?

Of course I have a planter with kitchen herbs. This is a round basil plant, the scent is simply intoxicating. I will probably arrange 3 of them together, don't forget: odd numbers always work best in design!

Lisa Swanson of Zinnia Designs has been helping me with this new way of gardening.  Her knowledge and hard work have been instrumental in getting my newest outdoor space off the ground (literally!).

Lisa is wonderfully creative and such a doll!

I am very happy with the progress so far on my garden.  Things are coming together and I can already see containers are starting to fill in. Now all I have left to do is plant the remainder of the materials, pray for continued sunshine and of course, have a party.  Then it will really feel like a garden!

xo,

Pamela

{You can reach Lisa Swanson of Zinnia Designs via email at: lmarie4swanson(at)comcast(dot)net}

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