Home Sweet Home #65

Hello and welcome to Home Sweet Home!  I happened on something this week I almost never get to watch. It was P. Allen Smith's Garden Home on PBS.  I have seen this show off and on for years and I almost never get to sit down and watch it.  Maybe, because it is on the weekend and my family keeps me hopping.  Anyway, I always get to watching this show and someone tries to come up and change the channel, I see the last ten minutes, etc.  You get the idea.  But, right when I am just thinking in my head, "Wow, I have to write down when this is on and watch it next week."   The moment ends and we are on to other things here.  Does that ever happen to you?

 

 image source: Garden Home, P. Allen Smith

Well this week while I had a brief moment strolling in the garden with Mr. Smith I caught the mention of his website!   And, on his website I found out he has several books on gardening!!  I made a run to the library and picked them up and I am blown away by the knowledge and great garden design info in these books!  So, I had to share.

 My favorite book so far is the Garden Home.   For the first time I finally get garden design.  It was some kind of constantly changing elusive Mother Nature mystery, but Mr. Smith puts it into simple terms that I can understand with pictures to capture the concept quite nicely. 

 The part of the book that really spoke to me was the twelve principles of design as related to gardening!  Light bulb going off!  Now I get it great garden design is just like great room design with  Mother Nature's twist.

 He defines the twelve principles as: 

enclosure 

shape and form

framing the view

entry

focal point

structures

color, texture, and rhythm

abundance

whimsy

mystery

time

 I also found this book on container gardening with "recipes."  

I picked this recipe to follow.  Of course being that we didn't have these exact plants in my hometown I substituted a little.

I love these double impatiens and they do great on my front porch.  I will show you another picture of this after it fills out some more, later this summer.   It should be beautiful with the impatiens spilling all over and the other plants tucked in around them. 

 Now I would like to highlight some of the posts that caught my eye last week at Home Sweet Home.  So many great ideas!

 

Stefanie at Rose Petals and Rust showed off her gorgeous cottage garden!  

Housepitality Designs showed off her foyer makeover.  This lovely piece of furniture made a complete change to the space.

At the Beachcomber this white tablescape wowed!

 Beachcomber

And, The Tablescaper had the best themed birthday party for her elementary aged daughter!  It was Spa Night!   Now, this was right on target with me for I just did a post about my own summer ritual of spa night!  Too cute! 

Thank you to all who join me at Home Sweet Home!   It is wonderful to have you here! 

Sherry

I will join these ladies today:
Vintage Inspiration Friday at Common Ground 

Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage

Show and Tell Friday at My Romantic Home

Rooted in Thyme Simple and Sweet Fridays

Home and Garden Thursday  at A Delightsome Life 
Fresh Cut Friday  at Rose Vignettes

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