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outdoor seating
This is the place we mean when we say to our guest, "Would you like to sit in the garden?" We like to spend time outside and so appreciate having a convenient outdoor 'room'.
Rosa 'Veilchenblau' is still in bloom in this shot (it is pretty much ending now). We have various potted plants we can more around to display while in flower, and we enjoy mixing and matching their various pots & foliage color/textures.
When we moved into this old house, this area had been used to store junk and was a real mess. We managed to get the concrete cleaned and enjoy the patina of this old paved surface. The little bits of 'weeds' that populate the cracks are in fact Viola riviana, which sports cherry little lavender-blue flowers in the spring and again in fall. It self-seeds with abandon (and our encouragement). Often is it joined by Cymbalaria muralis, or Kenilworth Ivy, another charming self-sower.
outdoor seating
This is the place we mean when we say to our guest, "Would you like to sit in the garden?" We like to spend time outside and so appreciate having a convenient outdoor 'room'.
Rosa 'Veilchenblau' is still in bloom in this shot (it is pretty much ending now). We have various potted plants we can more around to display while in flower, and we enjoy mixing and matching their various pots & foliage color/textures.
When we moved into this old house, this area had been used to store junk and was a real mess. We managed to get the concrete cleaned and enjoy the patina of this old paved surface. The little bits of 'weeds' that populate the cracks are in fact Viola riviana, which sports cherry little lavender-blue flowers in the spring and again in fall. It self-seeds with abandon (and our encouragement). Often is it joined by Cymbalaria muralis, or Kenilworth Ivy, another charming self-sower.