How to add a wow factor to this galley kitchen?
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Comments (34)Ink, I don't think this garden has more Wow than a good japanese garden necessarilly. I think it is much bolder in its delivery of some of the same goods. Those goods are what I view to be the wow in a japanese garden (in a much less subtle way). That is the fight between unity and divergence until a balance is built that makes it calm. If you think about it, calm or peace is more noticable when viewing things that we expect to be the opposite. Usually, we describe someone as calm when they are in situations where we expect them not to be. You don't look at someone in a coma and say "Jim sure is calm today". But you might say Jim sure is calm when some punk runs a stop sign, smashes into his car, flips him the bid, and takes off while Jim calls 911 and explains the situation to the police in a matter of fact way. That is what I think is the great mystery in japanese gardens that is overlooked. They give off such a powerful sense of peace because they are calm in the heat of battle. Calm without that battle is not powerful if you think about it. A lawn should be more peaceful than a japanese garden, but it lacks the battle and so becomes less impressive. Many of us look at the planting above and think it has to be chaos and it has to be too busy because you just can't mix that much stuff. Look at Alan Bloom's gardens with heath, heather, and dwarf conifers. It is the same battle between unity and divergence that puts the funk into that. Don't underestimate the importance of the lawn and the heather that freezes chaos into calmness in his work. That is a wow and a half. It is the same set principles - contrast, hidden balance, lack of a supreme focal point, and strong unity from unexpected sources that tend to go unnoticed....See MoreTop 5 WOW Factor Plumeria Choices ?
Comments (29)David, I water rooted my JL Metallica with no issue, rooted in 6 weeks for me, similar to rooting a Jeannie Moragne. I also rooted a 5" tip that broke off, again water rooted. As for Butterfly Gold, it does perform well for me. I have read and heard people complain that it took up to 5yrs before it bloomed for them (Sonia and Lynn and many others). My BFG was grafted from Florida Colors, received it in early fall (Oct), then bloomed for me in July. Here is a pic of mine last season, I had just root pruned it and repotted so the inflos is not performing like it usually does with size and shape, but color is typical for me. I used Chris Durhams pic because of his intense color, excellent prime example of what a BFG should look like. My BFG does not get as much color but shape wise it performs. Again this was take the season I root pruned her: Flowers after transplanting were much smaller than normal but does get the shape (JJs Taj Mahal is good in cool temps), but this is about as good as it gets for color in my patch that stays cool in summer (avg around 76 to 82 max, with maybe 2 to 5 days a year of 90 degree heat rare to get to 100 or over.). I found that plumies that seem to have requirements to look like their parent tree in its original growing environment (hot and sunny) , like Shapes/Patterns/Colors esp purples, the longer you have a plumie and the larger it gets the closer it looks to parent. When Metallica bloomed for the first time looked saturated purple(but did have a heat wave for a bit), but is one of the best purples for cooler temps. Hey Laura....Waving @ ya....See MoreAny wow factors in your build?
Comments (43)Mtpo, thank you. I'm in zone 9B. Big difference. My house in NY was 7A. I know myself well enough to know other than walking around and pulling some weeds as I see them, or watering my container plants once or twice a week during the winter, (summer it rains daily) or clipping some of the vines so they don't overtake my palms, I'm not doing much much more of anything. I have some oregano, 2 pepper plants, 2 Florida cherry trees, and a potted Meyer lemon tree. Otherwise everything else if flowers and green. At most I'll spend 1 hour a week and that's plenty for me. If I had a lawn, I would need someone to mow it and my horticulturist costs about the same for her weekly maintenance as it would have cost for someone to cut my lawn and botch cutting and weeding my garden. LOL Actually the front and sides are the areas with no grass. The back has the pool and the fake grass for the dog. So much easier and no pesticides ever. AS, thank you. It's easy here for a garden to look mature after only a year because it's sunshine year round and warm temps. Here are a few pics from when it was first planted. January/February 2019Below is from April/May 2019 January 2019 This was taken in Dec 2019This was before my horticulturist got ahold of my garden....See MoreNeed that Wow factor
Comments (7)I really like your use of color in the room, although you say you want to go towards gray. The area rug is fun! And I love the teal chairs at the kitchen pass through. I would suggest two things: A console beneath the tv. It will “anchor” it to the space and provide some storage (if needed). And one comfortable chair (perhaps a swivel?) to the right of that area (where the wall zig sags out). I would look at accessorizing your sectional with colorful pillows in colors drawn from your rug. (Check out www.Dekowepillows.com for some spectacular, colorful, reasonably priced pillow covers!) The ocean image above your sectional is pretty, but hung a bit high. If you want to keep it...you might consider adding a matte and a larger frame around it. I like your use of teal and purple. And the bright yellow in your rug might be fun to play around with. Your room has some good bones. Please don’t go “gray” on us! Following......See Morejck910
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