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Comments (14)Yes Sandy, the hummingbirds do like this little tropical garden. These's a lot of activity mostly around the salvias and verbena.... Plus lately the katydids have developed a taste for canna leaves, so the kids like to catch and play with those. Woody I don't know if I have enough discipline to stick to a straight color scheme like that, I really like The idea though. I've been a fan of Helen Dillion's garden for a while and she kind of does a hot border on one side and a cool border across from it in a facing bed. If I get serious about this bed I might try something like that since it seems easier to apply to a smaller bed. I guess the red salvia does look good with the purple foliage.... Now maybe I need to think of a way to transition into the next color. Thanks for the comments, I do find myself liking bolder colors during the summer and fall.... Maybe they hold up better against the background of my dried faded tan lawn... mxk3- thanks for the honesty! There's so much I don't like about the combos in this bed in some ways a killing freeze will be a relief! I'd like to keep a tropical theme, but as of now I want to evict everything except for the rose, purple salvia, dark leaved cannas, variegated grass, and little gem magnolia. I'm not sure about the verbena and what reds to leave. Planning is always fun, but don't be offended if in the fever of next spring this space fills with coleus and elephant ears! It is an experimental bed after all, and definately a summer peaking bed....See MoreDare I say I don't like it? (Again?!?)
Comments (68)I'm with pllog. I may not have bad allergy attacks most of the time, but cats love me and make a beeline for me when I go into a house. As a real estate agent, I try to be very careful to not insult the homeowner, but if they touch any exposed skin of mine, I have an instant rash. I make a joke about not being able to touch the cat while talking to the cat and most h.o.s get the hint and pick them up and often move them elsewhere. If a house has multiple cats or is not very clean, I will sniffle all day and feel lousy. Most of the time, I am not there long enough to have a really bad reaction. I only had my throat start to close up twice in my life. Running outside and gulping air fixed it. I can care about a friend and not want allergy problems or, quite frankly, to care about their cat. You can love whomever you want, but sometimes it is not proper to foist them on others. I adore our sons but it is not always proper to mix them with company. The same is true of pets. A quick hello is plenty. If I had worse allergies, then that would even be too much. Having a non allergy aversion is also acceptable. It is nothing personal about your pet, but some people have a fear of dogs and that does not make them bad people. I was bit by a chihuahua years ago and am still leery around them despite not having much fear of larger more imposing dogs. I have some allergies with certain breeds of dogs, but will still choose to pet them and suffer a small reaction. The key is it is my choice as to which pet I will touch or not. My allergy to dogs is less than to cats, but I also like dogs more. Not liking cats is a personal choice and does not preclude me being a good friend or guest. If that means someone thinks I am not worthy because I don't like their "Fluffy", then it is their loss. The funny part is I am usually the most attractive human in the room to cats. I can walk in with several cat lovers and the cats want nothing to do with them, but love me. They must love "hard to get" people....See MoreIt's not that I don't like gray.....
Comments (15)I've been biting my tongue, but it's not working, so please forgive me horning in here. :) Your textured golden walls are beyond beautiful and unique, just as they are. They are Devine! " ... the color both the painter and man at paint store said we should use ..." They do not get to vote! Nor do I, but I can serve as a cautionary tale. I live in an old, tired, far-too-small home. We went to the considerable expense to remove the only bathroom, to the studs, and replumb it. The new 7x10 floor plan works perfectly. Except... I begged and pleaded and delayed the project trying to show how and why a walk-in/roll-in, non-curbed shower/wet room would be better than the too-small, awkward bathtub with shower head I was forced to install. I could have had a 7x4 shower in the same footprint. Nope! Carpenter and husband said "you must have a standard bathtub" ... and the resulting odd 2' hole to the left of it. I have arthritis in my feet and knees. I knew I would not be able to safely step into the 14" high tub for long. Now, four years later, I'm facing hip surgery. I've already fallen twice trying to step over the tub to take a shower. So, do I pay to have the bathroom stripped out again to get a useable and sizeable shower, or do I give up the slightly bigger bedroom to have a walk-in shower installed there - on the opposite end of the house from the 12x12 room that will then have to become our bedroom? I have not used this bathtub once in five years. It has injured me twice. I do not care one iota about a mythical future buyer or what is oh-so-trendy. I need a large walk-in shower. Ditto for the 9+ Ft.-wide LR window I had to replace but was "not allowed" to install a smaller, 85" window that would have allowed a better use of the 15' long room. "They" should not get to vote on your decisions for your home. I think grey is an appropriate dull color for battleships and coffins. I do not understand it's saturation of the decorating world. But, I do not get to vote either....See MoreI don't get it...colors I don't like
Comments (6)It reminded me of Jonathan Adler..a very colorful guy in all senses..rather, him saying in one of his books he doesn't like neutrals-unless they're from nature, like clay, or yarn, or stone, or wood, or.. When in nature-whatever it might be-we're deeply touched by very different settings ..I don't know why but let's pretend that's because there's invisible hand of the Master that put it all together, and we don't know another worlds, not yet, so we are touched by ours. When in home-if one can get one seventieth of that Master's touch..it changes our general connotations. Because there's texture, variation, light, all this, yes-plus something made by hand, taking this natural things, clay and wood, etc, and working on them, and loving them while working. Simple things-yet they all get to sing. I know this because for example I also have variated terracotta tile in the bath-and it's less variated, just three colors..and it's textured custom too..and we were there when the guys from the shop were working on color and texture , working on samples, showing them to us..we waited with them, we were witnesses to that process, and you see the real excitement and passion that goes into creating and playing with things like that. (they liked the pallette themselves and made a sample of it for the store, and called it "April's". lol) And this excitement, passion and patience is what probably makes what was clay and wood shine under that light. It brings together what they are-natural materials-and what people with passion and patience wished them to be, and got them to be. So. That's why I love my grays and my browns.. Even though my house is pretty colorful-no one will call it neutral It's true, they remind me some scenes from my childhood which I percieve as happy. And all sorts of things. The juxtaposition. Of course I prefer certain grays and certain browns, that's normal. For example I love mostly very warm grays. And (surprize) mostly warm browns)) But also because some of them, I witnessed to be made, I knew them to be painstaikingly made, or I knew nobody made it, it was created like that- and I was just lucky to spot it, like a piece of gray marble with golden rusty streaks..and it makes it a bit more magical. Sense of discovery can come in many shapes. It can be quiet and subdued. And nothing we generaly like even maybe. Yet it still will be a sense of discovery. I would love to do truly neutral room one day, just like a challenge even. yet I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to pull it off.....See More- 6 years ago
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