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Since moving in almost a year ago, we’ve studiously ignored our outdoors, as if our neglect might coax a few maintenance-precluding high rises from the dirt. Nope! Turns out we still live in the suburbs.
Landscaping is one of those adult things that makes me raise both eyebrows: Seriously, I am in charge of actual earth an dhow it should look? Everyone’s okay with this?
Enter the professionals. We’re meeting with two landscape designers on Friday, and with their help we’ll hatch a master plan for the whole space. They’ve asked for a list of what we love, hate and wish we had on our property. In that order: massive trees, a cantankerous L-shaped gravel driveway, and bushes with flowering branches. (What’s more fun than pie-in-the-sky lists? Before we get all budget-y I’m going to throw in a driftwood arbor and a gym/sauna outhouse. Just for giggles.)
Flowering branches add drama without adding bulk. Their transparency keeps everything feeling light, and I bet they last longer than the supermarket tulips practicing synchronized wilting in various corners of my house.
While I populate my tabula rasa with landscaping ideas, take a gander at some of my favorite interiors featuring flowering branches.
via the city sage
via the brass petal
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