I am doing the same thing right now? WHere exactly are you? I am in san fernando valley..I starting with one lonely queen palm and some guava bushes and my vegie gardent. Got a pool too! I am having sush a hard time planning out the trees etc....my pool divides the yard...my husband wants tropical and I am a native plant person...i like salvias, drought tolerants etc.... So i am doing "sub tropic" I have a subtripical plant book and mounds of books on trees, i ahve been to every tree nursery in the vallye. Its soo hard planning because you cant move trees like roses etc..onece its there its there and i am racing against time....you really have to do it before june...before it gets too hot!! very overwhelming what trees did you finally decide on? I am going with hong kong orchid on left of pool and on right against back wall going with australian willows and fruit trees. Also we are facing 2 story homes going up on other side of our wall...darn it!! so we are adding lattice ontop of block wall for privacey... its all too much

Sorry, can't add "and a dick" in there, don't have one (BIG BIG HA HA) (whew am I grateful for that!) However I can see it does apply to you. Very self descriptive there, it must be a gift you have. Hey, where've you been? Our landscape up here in the Arctic isn't brown at all! Far from it! Everythings still rocking and rolling up here. Nice and green, stuff blooming all over the place. We haven't been smitten so am still looking at a nice green, not brown, landscape, yessiree. And you misread me, I am not "smug". Truth is, I really don't care about the difference between the temperatures in No and So FL, or if we freeze and you don't, or if I get to grow in a greenhouse and not in the yard. I really don't care if you can grow a Sealing Wax palm outside. I have 2 in the greenhouse and they are very happy. And I am not overly fond of Medillina. I would like to have an Amherstia nobilis, but just don't have space...sigh...so many plants, so little time. The most fun part about this thread for me has been seeing the hair trigger defensive attitude you all have down there. The entertainment value here is, well, seemingly unlimited. You're like the little lap dog, blow on its ear and it snaps. Then you get to laff and jump back and do it again. And see, those "ha ha's" are contagious, aren't they? Just can't stop yourself can ya? (Who's really trying to act smug, here, you gotta ask that about now. Imitation is, well, you know...) Yeah, eggo, I lived in So Cal for an extended period of time. I actually liked it. Weather is generally great there on the West Coast. Lottsa great tattoo shops too. Ohhh and the RESTAURANTS! Ethnic food heaven! Everything you need for fun and games. I happily welcome you to the rogues gallery. We have all the real fun in here, without all the angst. Besides, you SO FL guys are moving up here to my neck of the woods in DROVES! All the homes going up around this area....anything from $300,000-900,000.....the largest percentage are being snatched up by people from South FL who "just can't take it any more" down yonder....too much crime, too much traffic, too crowded....willing to mortgage themselves into oblivion to GET AWAY from SO FL...THANKS! You all are fueling our local economy something fierce and ensuring we have lots of moola to spend on our landscaping! Keep it coming, I have 5 acres to do up!

Actually they are cute, in a campy sort of way. I thing your idea of twigs would look good. Maybe use some dried green moss for the ground. And some pretty stones. I like the idea of burlap shades, too. I'd probably paint the metal an oil rubbed bronze color. I think the metal parts should fade away, and the globes should be the focus. When I was in grade school, I had an apothocary jar decorated almost identically - with the same dried flowers. Mine had ceramic quail in it! That was the late 60's.

Thanks, my3dogs. Following palimpsest's posting, I did go out to 1stdibs and searched and found the listing you posted. Yes, those are the exact same chairs, although I "only" have a set of 4. I see that even the dealer on 1stdibs who is selling his set of 6 also doesn't know the original manufacturer or any specific details, but I never would have guessed "eucalyptus wood" so that is one more piece to the puzzle that I hadn't had before. I'm just surprised that for such visually striking chairs in such a unique design, essentially no details have survived to be posted on the internet...