How we spent our Sunday afternoon

It ’s been a while since I ’ve posted something frommygarden ! Luckily I have something new to deal . This retiring Sunday was utterly gorgeous in northwesterly Connecticut , so Rob , Kaia , and I spent a couple of minute outside dally in the garden . I should have been raking leaves or planting bulbs , but….this was more fun ! This little area is at the base of the rampart that forge part of Rob ’s barn , which is a new social organization on the foundation of the original carriage family for the property ( our theater was built in 1871 . ) Up until a couple of week ago it was a scraggy mess , but of late Rob ramp up a low retaining wall a couple of feet out from the bulwark with plans to plant a garden here sometime in the future tense . Kaia ’s been ghost with building fairy houses lately , and when she asked us to help her , Rob imagine this would be a nice piazza to do it ( the bulwark means we do n’t have to get ALL of the way onto the priming – oooh , we ’re getting erstwhile … ) Things quick got out of control as we pay back more and more into creating and edifice . We scoured the pace for random bits of stone , stick , and odds and ends , as well as some lingering flowers , minor perennials , and moss from the cap of the shed . Our fag house now has a patio , a small flower garden , a orchard of tree , a sun umbrella on the secret back lawn , and a voluminous pathway to a guest planetary house ! Kaia exclaimed several times that she need to inhabit in this fag abode . I kind of desire to , too !

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An overview of the fairy domain.

An aerial shot taken from a tiny fairy helicopter….

The main house.

The front stoop and wall, with a ginkgo leaf doormat and thyme shrubbery.

The bed is woven from the blades of a big miscanthus, the blanket is a big Dutchman’s pipe leaf, and the pillows are folded fuzzy verbascum leaves. A pretty rock serves as a headboard and beer bottle caps serve as trays.

The flower bed by the front stoop includes dianthus, lavender, fennel, and pennisetum flower spikes.

The sun parasol on the private back lawn is a datura bloom over a pennisetum flower stalk. The lounge chairs are sage leaves. The woodland garden beyond includes miscanthus blooms, sprigs of cuphea, lavender sprigs, a sedum flower, and a planted heuchera.

The patio off the main house. A big bolt acts as a pillar with a decorative rock as an ornament on top. A golf ball serves as a trendy garden sphere…

An overhead view of the path from the main house to the guest house.

The view from the main house to the guest house.

The spiral walkway to the guest house. Moss forms the lawn and the shrubbery is lemon balm. The red mats on the front stoop are viburnum leaves.

The guest house. The roof is twigs covered in Dutchman’s pipe leaves.

The rug is an overturned Dutchman’s pipe leaf. The bed is fuzzy verbascum leaves with an anise hyssop seed head pillow. A tray of wild hop flowers spruces things up a bit.