Promise Garden Color Guides

The Promise Garden color scheme for the 2012 Rose & Flower Show is taken from the image below and the beautiful image of  Alma-Tadema.  [see posts below]  I created a color guide from the images to show those colors that will be used in the decor, flower pots, containers, hanging baskets, furniture, potting & garden tables, benches and more.   Several of  the statuary will be painted in various hues of these colors as well.  The large Lydia in the main Promise Garden is already in the beautiful color of turquoise with silver overlay (images forthcoming).  I will also add shabby chic furniture and draping in off-white.  The secret garden and shabby chic gardens will also have other variations of the colors from this scheme. I am inspired!  I hope it inspires you for your gardens as well.

The Perfume of Lilacs Inspire Me

My lilacs this year are breathtaking…five beautiful large trees brimming with all the shades of lavender, purples, pinks and white that only God good embellish.  How lovely they are in the gardens and how beautiful and aromatic in the home.  They inspire me in color, perfume and design.  This year’s Promise Gardens theme colors were inspired by these shades.

WITH LILACS

I BEG the pardon of these flowers
For bringing them to one whose hair
Alone doth shame, beyond compare,
The sweetest blooms of richest bowers.

I beg the pardon of this maid
For offering them with hand less pure,
A heart less perfect, needing cure
By Love’s own music, softly played
__Charles Henry Crandall

It's All About the Blooms...

Reblogged from Jay&Jacy Photography:

Oh Blooming Trees…how we love you!

In Washington, DC, it is the National Cherry Blossom Festival, in the valley it is the Apple Blossom Festival, both renown for their beauty, festival activities and for the crowds that come to enjoy the blooms and festivities.  We have the blessing of being at home with both but the blooms that delight us the most are the ones in our own gardens and historic district. 

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Love in the Promise Gardens...happiness is spring, blooming trees and lakes.

Happiness is a Garden Cart

This is a tool that every gardener needs.  Forget old wheelbarrows (which we now use for planters) and buy one of these.  I just purchased my second cart.  I now have one for planting/feeding gardening chores and one for serious garden hauling.  It is so handy when you have to move around a large garden and gives you everything at easy reach and that is gardening happiness indeed.

The cart is available at Lowes, Home Depot and Tractor Supply stores.