Lately when I read gardening magazine the designers talk about making a view that is pleasant from your window.
What they mean is that your garden areas close to the house should have a wonderful aspect from the back of the garden as well as from the front. I guess this means don’t put the tallest plants in the back that create a total block of your view. But it might also mean that one should think about the angle from which you see various parts of your garden.
This first picture is a view of my bedroom window.
- The dogwood and pale purple flocks
This is from my bedroom window and a view I get every spring. The bottom of the tree is surrounded by flocks and strawberry plants. I did not craft it to be seen from above but I like how it has turned out.
- Hanging Basket
This is the only hanging basket I have up so far. By the end of the month, my front porch will be filled with flowers. They are interspersed with bird feeders, including a hummingbird feeder that you can see on the top right corner. Because we are on the prairie I am always surprised when they come in for a quick snack. But they do and sometimes one of the hummers will take a quick break.
- The View from the Office.
This is the shade garden that gets all of its light in the morning. A larger bird feeder is here along with the rabbit cage. We are not sure who but we do know someone was messing with it. Grass does not get into a water bottle by itself. So we moved the rabbit and it makes for a happy situation.
Just put up my flower boxes and they made a huge difference! A little bloom goes a long way!
It really does!
I love the view from your living room. Why? Because you have the perfect spot for reading while getting a nice dose of color from the flowers, perhaps a little show if a hummingbird shows up, and maybe some pleasant going-ons across the street (and even if nothing happens, it’s nice to look at someone else’s porch while looking across your own.
I have been too busy to start anything yet. And time is passing fast! But I know how it will happen. I will spend at least one whole weekend getting a few new clay pots for my front porch, buying some dirt, picking out some colorful flowers, and then transplanting them all to clay pot containers to place along the sides of my stairs leading up to my front porch. In one weekend, I will have enough color and prettiness to make me happy as I leave and when I return from and to my home!
That is why I like gardening. I never remember what should bloom next and I am always delightfully surprised.
Is your dogwood blooming now? Our dogwood blossoms are long gone.
That picture was taken yesterday. The inner pistill has not opened yet and released its sweet smell.
I love your views! My house sits a bit too high to really ‘see’ the flowers in my yard, but I put up two hanging baskets yesterday and they are lovely, though the wind is really hitting them today. I can see my little apple tree from my office and my DH has promised to build me a raised bed for gardening in the yard this year! I can’t wait! I love spring. 🙂
pretty. Here…the weather has been so bad…
although, I looked out my bedroom window and noted, with surprise, that the dogwood was in full bloom…
blessings
jane
I have a pink dogwood but the whte ones are lovely, too.
Like your views! My view from my windows is mostly the water of the Tongass Narrows. I have a small flower bed, but I actually don’t see much of it. It’s behind the house, and I rarely am out that way these days. But I love flowers, and look forward to getting back to a life with more flower time when I leave Alaska. Not that this area doesn’t have lovely florals…it does, but I just haven’t made the time here to do much gardening. In my next life!
Sheila
You can’t do everything, although somedays I have tried. I would rather do what I can these days and gardening is one of those things.
very creative. gardening is more than just planting , it’s an art form itself. good post.
Thanks for stopping by. My photography is not as good as yours but I hope the pics tell a story just the same.
Hi Rumbly! Found my way here : ) my friend, who is an avid gardener, says the same thing about getting the most out of your garden views from your windows. But he puts it “put your most expensive plants up by the house where you can enjoy them.” I am all very new to this. Husband got sick before he could cultivate our almost 3 acres as he planned. I’m more of an indoor plant person, but I’d like to try my hand at a small area to start. Peace!
That is what I did. Start small and make the area bigger every year. Thanks for stopping in.