Please advise re: whitest white gouts-is Avalanche too pink?
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10 years agoI have the White Dove grout by Custom Building and it looks very white against my tile. My tiles are white, shiny ceramic. I've attached a picture. Good luck!
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Planning a massive garden... need advise
Comments (6)If you get yourself some large sheets of white paper and do a 'sort of scale' outline of the two areas you're working with as a first move. Then look out your windows and think about what you would like to see over the various seasons - perhaps this way: the first ones - the earlies such as snowflakes and snowdrops and glory of the snow. The early Narcissus from whatever is hardy in your zone. And what keeps them company - forget-me-nots and polyanthus and the early primulas. If you have unfriendly summers then you can treat the polyanthus as annuals. Calendula is also a vivid possibility, as are pansies. Around them are the 'bare' patches where there are dormant plants, or various shrubs both deciduous and evergreen. (Both is better: one gives some form to the garden while the other provides interest over two to four seasons. Ones with interesting stem colour and form can be delightful in winter, for example.) Then there's the Grand Display for spring - and that's when you need to think about colours and heights and flowering times. You also have some lovely leaves unfurling, such as some of the hardier japanese maples which can either clash unpleasantly or really lift your garden pictures into the sublime. Just remember that it's a very fleeting event and the yards of green leaves hang around like a hay meadow for months, in some cases. I can tolerate that in the less public areas of my yard but I prefer to have other eyecatchers about while the leaves are feeding the bulbs below. Flowering plums and dwarf fruit trees, early Clematis, if that's seasonally possible, and the early perennials such as Astrantia, Heuchera, Euphorbia which give lasting colour and texture. Then the later bulbs - remembering access to do any tieing to stakes you might need for Gladiolus and Dahlias or Dianthus. Instead of mighty swathes think, perhaps, more of 'settings and backgrounds'. Little vignettes linked by colours and repetition because this is a public area and you are sharing your tastes with others. If you want bulk quantities of bulbs for filling the vases and gifting - think of making an industrial growing area in the more private part of your yard - a cutting garden which can also double as a place to try out new varieties and hardiness and longevity before you put them on display. And, as you plot and scheme on those sheets of paper - put in the access tracks for the inevitable lifting of over-large clumps, and soil feeding with barrow loads of compost, and deadheading. There are few things as attention-focusing as stepping on something beloved inadvertantly while dropping heavy tools on something else... When you've got it all on paper - go out and check your reality. From your planting diagram you can work out how many of what you will need. For such a large area think in terms of clumps of five as a minimum. Write the numbers under the plant names in the planting shapes on the paper - then create a list of numbers, species, and varieties - and -place your orders, please....See More2007 Catalogues
Comments (118)Okay Sharon, I have a confession. LOL!!! These are the lilies I picked up at Costco last week. 9 Bahia Blanca 9 Expressions together in one bag and labeled 7 Angelique 7 Rodolfa together in a bag and labeled 18 star gazers one bag 9 muscadet 9 kissproof together in one bag labeled All the above are orientals, From experience the orientals do very well in my garden 10 Amarone Asiatic lilies 10 Suncrest LA hybrids together in one bag. These I potted up, because they were starting to grow. I didn't see any species lilies there this year...with the exception of some trumpets. I also planted several lilies last fall....so looking forward to seeing those new this year. Sierra ;-)...See MoreBM Simply White Cabinets...White Subway?
Comments (64)Ok thanks! But what if I were to go half way up the wall to create the illusion of wainscoting? I get what both of you are saying about leaving some of the grey paint, I think I like that too. If I end the tiles at the cabinets I didn't purchase any finishing pieces of tile just yet or even a ceramic crown piece. However, if I do the wainscoting look on the lower half with tile I could always finish off the edge with some wood trim but again, I'm not sure if that will look weird? I think it's safe to say going all the way around the door in my kitchen just won't work if I can't go all the way around the window and because of my bulk head, so that's out....See MoreTrim colour close to BM White Dove to coordinate KC cabs but creamier?
Comments (60)I have a large sample of White Dove here, and a small chip of Old Praire (I have the BM deck). They do look good together. It looks like enough contrast . It does not look like you were trying to match the cab colour, but missed (I think Swiss Coffee might have looked like a miss). Hopefully we will hear back from Lori. I am curious if she still recommends a crisper white like Cotton Balls, expecially after seeing the warmth in the counter and floor. I have found this post educational and am always glad to hear what Lori has to say on colours. Carol...See More
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