View from inside my garden shed...

Eliza_ann_ca

17 years ago

Eliza Ann

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dayleann
17 years ago
Oh, that is so sweet and homey! It reminds me of hiding out in Grandma's house on a hot summer day.

Dayle Ann
ntaylor_2006
17 years ago
Simply beautiful. Are the pink flowers impatients in a window box?? Thanks for 'your view'.
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Frankie, that is exactly what I was rying to say, although it was disjointed and strung out through the thread (pun?). "I think it might be nice to have something that makes you look into it instead of at it or around it. A small patio puts the mass in the middle and give your plants something to belong to. It is one way, but not the only way or necessarily the right way for you." .... "You don't have to have a patio to do it." The same thing applies to breaking the fence. There are other plants or objects that can do it, but breaking it has a real affect. I used the term "framing" earlier, too. I don't think it is the right term. I may be better to call it "bumping". If you are trying to put gravity into an area, it re-inforces it when you put things in the composition that "bump" you back in to that space rather than creating a barrier that has a front side and a back side. A solid row or hedge tends to make your subconscience interested in what's on the other side much like a fence does. It is more subtle than fence, but does not stop the tendency. The "bump" is something we experience in both planned and unplanned situations, but is so subtle that we don't notice it. If you look around comfortable places that you frequent, you might be surprised how much unsightly stuff there actually is in open view, but somehow you never really noticed it. Look for the little not so noticable things that are keeping you from paying attention to that stuff. Something is telling your brain that the background starts before that "stuff". What makes a hedge or fence act as a background instead of a middleground when in both cases you can see objects past it? This goes on around all of us every day. When we try too hard, we often miss the simple. Here is a very simple example of "bumping". Now that this is not a hotly over-analyzed landscape, glance at the image. Where did you land? Where didn't you go?
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Wow Jeanne...things ARE looking good in your "shed" garden! Your tipsy buckets look so good...I need to move mine, they are getting too much shade where they are. LOVE the windmill and the million bells is HUGE and GORGEOUS! So many cool accessories..the galvanized containers and the wheel with the zinnias in it are great. What is the tall plant growing right next to your shed...the one with big leaves and tall stalks? Looks really cool! TFS~
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I'm in awe of those of you who are organized. What a grand tool box, Caroline! We are a pair of packrats, incorrigible. The Scrap Man comes by and reminds us every now and then that we're supposed to be throwing away and we keep moving things around. The space fills up again with objects that need lengthy goodbyes. We dragged the old Ford Truck from under the equipment shed for the Scrap Man to take away, and DH rearranged all his toys. At lunch, he described to me a battery operated nail driver that is on sale somewhere and then admitted that he has an air impact nail driver that has never been out of the box. Guess who gets a robe and jammies for Christmas? Nell
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I ran the zapper for a few nights before getting the ladys, killed most of the moths and other fliers i think. Watching the lady bugs come out of slow poke mode and go ravenous on the aphids was something else. I think out of "2000" maybe half were alive. most likely more along the lines of 500 or so total and a few hundred alive. many beetle hulls in the tops of my cups.
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anicee
17 years ago
This is very pretty...nice little hiding place that must be.

Anicee
diannesjmo
17 years ago
That is a beautiful picture and feeling you have captured - I would get a copy and frame it! -Dianne
haziemoon
17 years ago
I have been trying for that look out my livingroom window
for 2 years! The window box just never seems to deliver!

A really beautiful pic!

Haziemoon
faltered
17 years ago
Eliza: That is just gorgeous! But now you have to share photos of the outside with us as well. I'm dying to see what the outside of your shed looks like. Oh heck, and the rest of the inside, too!!

Tracy
jlsch
17 years ago
That is so charming! How nice that you don't have to go outside to feel up close and personal with your garden. It certainly creates a peaceful mood. I don't have a window where I could do that - am envious! Jean
Eliza_ann_ca
Original Author
17 years ago
Heres a couple of pics of the outside of my "garden shed"
You don't really want to see the inside believe me..the usual assortment of garden stuff and DH's tools and junk.It does have a woodstove,and refrigerator and stereo,so we can go out there in the winter months and do projects.
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Eliza Ann
michelle_zone4
17 years ago
What a fabulous shed, or should I say garden cottage as its hardly a "shed" I love your screen door. Everything is so charming. I'm looking for a fridge for mine, I think that would be so cool.
tressa
17 years ago
Enchanting!!!! Thanks for sharing...
anicee
17 years ago
I would love to have something like that and would also use it to foster cats for the SPCA.
Eliza Ann, what is the size of your garden shed? Was it a kit or did your husband build it himself.

It is very pretty and thank you for sharing,

Anicee
diannesjmo
17 years ago
I really want your cottage you call a "shed"!

-Dianne
FlowerLady6
17 years ago
Eliza Ann ~ What a wonderful shed you have! One of the prettiest I've seen yet. Love the view out your window too. I was just telling DH yesterday that this winter I want to redo the inside of my shed. It's just a hodgepodge right now or garden tools, my washing machine, extra supplies from the house, etc. Did you and your DH build yours? You've inspired me to put some music out in mine too.

FlowerLady
Eliza_ann_ca
Original Author
17 years ago
Actually, Dh built it out of mostly recycled materials..windows were yard sale finds....used lumber from various sources...maybe 25% new materials...even the screen door came from a yard sale.
haziemoon
17 years ago
That is the most charming shed!
That screen door is really beautiful.
It looks like a little guest house.

Haziemoon
southernheart
17 years ago
I love your pictures and garden (and "shed"! :)

Thanks for sharing those---I'm inspired~

~Andrea

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