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Comments (80)I love the diversity of the gardens shown! It is such a stark reminder of the complexity of gardening...different climates, soils, elevations, and, of course, the creativity of each gardener. As varied as the gardens are, there is always something to be learned by the viewer of these photos. Oh, Diane, the plant in the pot is actually an angel wing begonia with silvery foliage and pale pink blooms, and, yes, Carol, the heat is really kicking in! Molly...See MoreWhat Elements Create A Perfect 'Secret Garden' To You?
Comments (27)I could probably sit down and write a whole book about this. The concept is fascinating to me. The book "The Secret Garden" had a profound influence on me. After reading it for the first time many years ago I became aware of the idea of the garden as metephor and gardening as a transformational experience. A secret is a mystery. One is first intrigued by the existence of the secret and is then lead on to the place where it may or may nto quite be reveiled. A good way for me to give you some ideas is to describe Jon's garden. You can't see it as you approach. There is a tall hedgerow by the road, but you do see a few errant blooming rose canes falling over. You enter the garden through a rose covered gate. You pass through into an enchanted rose garden all pastels and soft greens. You can't see all the garden at one time. Charming paths draw you on. There is clematis growing through mnay of the rose bushes. All around are tall wild walls of ramblers climbing and tumbling. You pass a small timeless looking bird bath. Around a corner you find a tree that has roses and clematis climbing through and hanging down. Else where you find a bench enclosed in a little roofed structure that you can sit in unobserved. Though this is not at all a large garden you feel as though you could wander for a long time making new discoveries. This is Jon's secret garden....See MoreReview: The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain
Comments (17)"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." ��" Jorge Luis Borges "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." ��" Frederick Douglass "The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I [haven't] read." ��" Abraham Lincoln "So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall." ��" Roald Dahl "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." ��" Emilie Buchwald "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." ��" Groucho Marx "I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book." ��" Coolio "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go." ��" Dr. Seuss "Wear the old coat and buy the new book." ��" Austin Phelps "You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be ��" I had a mother who read to me." ��" Strickland Gillilan "The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't." ��" Mark Twain "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." ��" Victor Hugo, Les Miserables "Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!" ��" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943 "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." ��" Walt Disney "Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." ��" Lemony Snicket "A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket." ��" Chinese Proverb "You know youâÂÂve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." ��" Paul Sweeney "There is no substitute for books in the life of a child." ��" May Ellen Chase "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." ��" Margaret Fuller "A book is a gift you can open again and again." ��" Garrison Keillor "There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away" ��" Emily Dickinson "When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate. " ��" Mem Fox "Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks." ��" Dr. Seuss "I'm wondering what to read next." ��" Matilda, Roald Dahl "Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift."......See MoreWhat to do with unusual storage space - Large deep nook in the wall
Comments (17)You said that there is a closet directly below this opening? Do you mean on a different level? What is behind that 3.5 feet of wall that is directly below the opening? Is that empty space behind that wall? If so, why could you not knock out the wall and make a full closet out of it? It can't be a load bearing wall. Instead of installing complicated pull out anything, you might have empty and unused space behind that wall that you can open up and have easy use of. I am having a hard time envisioning this space and it's placement. It looks like there is a staircase to the side. So this is built like a large rectangular box that projects from the lower level up into the upper level with a full closet on the lower level and this truncated closet on the upper level? Essentially, it is two closets stacked on top on one another with the upper of them being partly closed off across the front to create this deep, short space? Do you have any idea what it was used for or built for in the first place? Do I see an electrical outlet in there? My daughter's house has something similar to this in one wall of one bedroom. It seems that it was built to hold an old fashioned TV. Did this maybe hold some old fashioned stereo equipment? If you don't want to open it up ,just put some sliding doors on it and accept it's limitations. But, I think that you have a closet space that is half way closed off that you could open up to to a full closet. A full closet area right there would be as useful and accessible as any other full closet. Leaving it like that is wasted space for you since you are not filing it with electronic equipment. Not only is the space wasted, but it is presenting to you as a problem that you are trying to live around. Once you have the space fully opened up, there are any number of things that you could do with it.....use it as a closet, put a desk of some kind in there, fill it with built in bookshelves............... Change it to something that works and that uses the full space. Instead of altering your life around it's inconvenience ...... alter the space instead. You can spend a lot of time, money, and energy trying to apply all manner of convoluted shelving and still be left with an awkward situation....See Moretetrazzini
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