well none of mine, that's for sure.

In their most recent coupon book, Costco advertised a huge discount on poster-sized prints.

That sort of thing might be perfect -- particularly if you got poster frames from Michaels or the like.

One of my favorite photos (of my own making) is not of my garden, but of an old Northern CA Cemetery on a foggy morning. (See Link.)

Jeri

Here is a link that might be useful:

Many years ago when I had only a balcony I had a poster of a tropical beach at the far end, half hidden by vines. Now I would put up a large mirror perhaps with a false perspective trellis in front.

I want to see yours, Sherry. Gean

I don't know, but this got me to thinking that there is no reason for a garden gnome not to be better looking. What do you think?

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hoovb, I know your intentions are good but realistically how much gardening would we get done with gnomes like that staring at us all around the garden? NONE!!! And DH would definitely move out.

Sherry

Do we need more handsome Gnomes?

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but realistically how much gardening would we get done with gnomes like that staring at us all around the garden?

With gnomes like that, how much gardening would we need to do?

You're making me blush, but you forgot Sean Connery if you don't mind. (Pre-Red October, please.)

Sherry

Ya'll are children. Where is Marlon Brando?

Watched 'Pretty Woman' twice in the last 24 hours. How about Richard Gere, hoovb?

But really, I'm still looking for garden glamour shots of a different sort.

Gean, do ya think we're being immature?

Sherry

How about that. Sir Sean makes a pretty good gnome.
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Where is Marlon Brando?

Marlon Brando was mixed with Wally Cox and scattered in Tahiti and Death Valley. When I tried to dress Marlon up as a Gnome, he sent a woman in a Native American-style leather dress in his place.

I really need to get back out into the garden.

Here is a link that might be useful: Marlon Brando on Wikipedia

THAT's not a gnome! THIS is a gnome!

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All right children, back to the subject at hand (but put me down for Donald Sutherland when he's wearing a beard). I'm going to punish everyone by posting FIVE nonracy, strictly gardenesque shots. Sherry, it's not my fault, you asked for it.

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Ingrid

I was about to take a nap after working in the hot sun (one of the few day a year you can call hot here) but these gnomes really woke me up. Especially Sean in an orange diaper.

Ingrid, what beautiful photos. Thanks for bringing us back from the brink of hysteria.

(I'll take Bob Dylan, but not as a gnome)

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Diane

Love your photos, Ingrid. #5 would be perfect on my wall.

Diane, is that where we were? The brink of hysteria? :))

Sherry

I don't own a digital camera. Sometimes I buy a throw-away camera and take a few pictures of roses and lots of pictures of cats. I send a few to friends and relatives and the rest sit in a drawer. I did order a CD of my last roll and managed to get it into my computer, but that's as far as I've gotten.

I have several thousand photos in on line galleries but really a few favorites not all of them have to do with roses or gardening. I love water abstractions and have many.
I've sold many of this photoshopped Tree Peony as a postcard for our Community Garden I always think to have it made larger and framed.
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Almost like a watercolor the background for this Magnolia
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Little girl walking up a hill to the cherry blossoms in the Bronx a bit saccharine but I like the shot
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One of my water reflections
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Louis Van Houtte
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Here is a link that might be useful: ALL MY PHOTOS

Well, I will take all the gnomes

Joe, those are great. I remember a tree shot you did a couple of Augusts ago at the Botanical Gardens, I think, looking up into some trees. It was stinkin' hot in Alabama at the time and looking into the leaves of that tree cooled the temps about 20 degrees. loved it.

Sherry, this is the brink of hysteria ...

Here is a link that might be useful: anybody want a peanut?

Joe, that peony is spectacular, and Ingrid, that last shot of yours is perfection...but there's nothing quite like Sean Connery in an orange diaper.

Joe, your photos are always great. These are just what I was thinking of. And Louis Van Houtte is the most gorgeous red rose I've ever seen. I wonder if he likes Florida. That is wonderful photography.

Catsrose, take your time. We're patient.

Gean, I'm not an afficionado of The Princess Bride like some people. I've only seen it a couple of times, but that was definitely funny, er, I mean hysterical.

hoovb, just think of a whole movie with Sean Connery in an orange diaper.
Sherry

I actually do not do big prints/framed photos (mostly because I am picky about the quality and custom prints are too expensive and too much trouble to arrange). What I use usually are either small simple wooden frames, or glass ones, or even some silver/metal "made in china, but looks ok" things - many of them. I usually attach strong wire close to the ceiling and attach the frames to it, so I get 3-6 frames hanging on one wire.

That is, I still need to make DH drill walls for our frame collection, but the idea is there. Bellow is the link with examples (sorry, no men in orange diapers there). :D

Here is a link that might be useful: How to decorate your walls with frames

Oh, elemire, thank you so much for that wonderful link. SO MANY good examples. That's the way I like to hang pictures, too. Large ones would be too expensive for me as well, but I have bought a few frames at yard sales for very little money so they would be candidates for pictures that I could have enlarged and blown up at the office supply store.

Sherry

I haven't painted in a while (still can't sit for long periods) but I do have quite a few watercolors of roses and flowers--I paint then frame and hang----the last time we painted the room there were 52 nail holes---LOL
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Just a few-

Florence

Very lovely, Florence. You've got quite a gallery.

Sherry

Sherry---LOL --- we just need more wall space----LOL

Florence

Florence, those are wonderful! If I had the artistic talent you have in your little pinkie, I'd be happy ;-)

I found a woodblock of an Arts and Crafts style painting of an Oak tree, that I loved, but lost the name of the artist and I was astonished to see the artist displaying her art this weekend at a local arts fair in Berkeley California. I bought a framed signed woodblock print of the orange Chinese lantern plant, and six other prints of varions botanicals, including the Oak tree that had first got my attention, last year. I'm so happy with her style, her artwork combines a Zen esthetic with Arts and Crafts influence, and I love woodblock prints.
Luxrosa

What a great post! Everything from sheer beauty to the funniest of photos.
I love Jeri's calm and peaceful cemetery.
Joe's photos are exceptional. I can get lost in the fourth one of water reflections.
Florence, your water colours are charming. How lucky you are to have such a talent. I particularly love the one of the vase of tulips on a windowsill.
Ingrid, what beautiful images. I love the back lit garden scene in the fourth photo.
Hoovb, I love it when you are being naughty!
Sherry, One thing I have seen occasionally here in Crete that looks good in people's porches or covered terraces.
They put up a few shelves on the wall, and then put a frame all round them. On the shelves they place small pots of succulents and other small plants. It becomes a picture of real plants, they look very charming.
Failing that, you could use your picture of Sean in an orange nappy and hoovb's gnomes.
Daisy

Here's a few of my favorites:

Garden Art

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Perennials

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Oh, that's one funky visitor! :D

I think that Owl was looking at Sean.

Or he's looking at US looking at Sean.

Sherry, I've been eyeing a print by Paul de Longpre that is a beautiful spray of roses. It' WAY more attractive than some old guy in a hat, a beard or a thong. I wish I could afford to get a real Longpre painting, if one were available, that is. Try googling Paul de Longpre prints and see what you get. Enjoy decorating the walls of your porch.

Ingrid, beautiful shots of your garden. Any of those would be beautiful on a wall.

Zeffy, Wow, how I wish I had your talent. I sometimes feel that I have something like those deep inside but my clumsy hands aren't able to let it out.

Sherry, this has been an interesting thread and fun too.

Florence, your watercolors are fabulous and I would be proud to hang them as garden art.

Ingrid, your photos are stunning, particularly the fourth and fifth photo. There is something mesmerizing about the fourth photo.

Juliet

I just bought some marvelous floral and botanical woodblock prints, by Yamiguchi Yamomoto at the framersworkshop.com. for my house that I'm decorating with Arts and Crafts furniture.
So far I have the oak tree, and pine tree for the living room, and oranges and lemons for the kitchen. She's done a brilliant red rose too. I just LOVE her wood prints, they were described by a freind of mine as having an Arts and Crafts style, with a Zen feeling to them. She is the only artist whose art I've ever wanted to collect, and could afford to.

Luxrosa

Harry--- I love the picture you call "Bed"--that is a beauty--

Florence