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lindavater · 4 years

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💜🍃💜 It is so small in the scheme of things, but are you as frustrated as me that you can’t get out to your local garden center for pots and plants and garden paraphernalia? Enter your humble bucket. The more beaten up the better...(might already have a hole in it for drainage!) for a #rusticchic vibe. I’ve been #bucket planting all week, and just did a @southernlivingplantcollection project I’ll be sharing soon. I am now officially bucket obsessed. (And if you don’t have any, you can order them online for a lot less than the cost of shipping a heavy terra-cotta pot! ) What would you bucket plant today? . . . . #containergardening #gardenideas #backporch #cottageliving #instagarden #growyourown #industrialchic #countrycottage #farmhouseliving #topiary #gardenlife #cozycottage #gardendesign #gardenlife #mygardenlife #cottages #cottage #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #cottagestyle #gardeninspiration #englishcountryhouse #jardin #galvanized #gardenlifestyle (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-e-Kx7l7G4/?igshid=1uruk6a0vqe97

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lindavater · 4 years

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🌸🌳🌸 It is all so surreal, isn’t it? It seems so cliche to even speak the obvious now. What is absorbing my thoughts today…is the juxtaposition of how the world has slowed…in contrast to the frenzied work of a gardener in spring time that continues as if all was normal. These kinds of tensions and contrasts make great material for pondering. What is occupying your thoughts today? . . . #growyourownveggies #gardenideas #veggiegarden #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #growyourown #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #cabbages #flowerstagram #gardenlife #cozycottage #gardendesign #gardenlife #mygardenlife #cottages #cottage #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardenphotography #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin #potager #gardenlifestyle (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cbFJRFemt/?igshid=18mmhrzftnk6i

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lindavater · 4 years

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🍃🌸🍃 This is the first year I can say I REALLY successfully grew bulbs in pots. The trick is to keep them from getting too wet over the winter months. After planting and a first watering, I kept them in the garage (covered and protected from mice and such) until late winter. THEN they came out. As always, I learned a lot, especially from my mistakes😉! The weather hasn’t been kind to them, but still....do you like the effect? . . . . . . . . #springgarden #plantbulbs #prettyflowers #narcissen #bulbs #narcissi #gardeninspiration #hellebore #windowbox #springflowers #daffodils #narcissus #gardening #springblooms #autumnplanting #springfloweringbulbs #narzissen #flowerfarmer #springbulbs #springflowersmakemehappy #hellebores #hyacinth #daffodil #topiary #flowerbulbs #floweringbulbs #tulpen #daffodilbulbs #hyacinths #tulips https://www.instagram.com/p/B-SXn0oljiE/?igshid=1j3p7kwzamjw4

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lindavater · 4 years

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🥬🥗🥬 Is it warm enough where you are to direct sow greens and cool season veggies? Last week I direct sowed ( I don’t start many seeds inside...lack of light and room and tolerance for the mess as I have no greenhouse😫) lettuces, arugula, dill, parsley and kale. The dill should have germinated by now, but I see only one lone seedling. I fear the seed was old and I must get a fresh pack. I also planted LOTS of nasturtium and some of the nubby seeds have germinated. Soak overnight to speed up the process. ...and isn’t this wooden true cute. Belonged to my mom:). What’s up in your garden beds? . . . . . #garden_styles #orangeflowers #gardenideas #herbgarden #cottageliving #springishere🌸 #instagarden #topiary #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #lvgardendesignschool #gardenlife #gardendesign #nasturtium #lindavater #cottages #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardeninspiration #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin #gardentrug #lindavater (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-FLDsflYeO/?igshid=13plqj07q373z

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lindavater · 4 years

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🍃🌳🍃 Just when you think all is lost, there is a glimpse of life. Of leaf. Of wholeness again. Of possibility for a beautiful future. 🍃 🍃 ~~ lessons from a Eugenia topiary 2020~~ . . . #garden-inspired #gardenideas #gardenlife #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #topiary #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #lvgardendesignschool #flowerstagram #gardenlife #cozycottage #gardendesign #gardenlife #houseplant #cottages #cottage #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardenphotography #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin #gardeninspiration (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-CqyKyFCaT/?igshid=odnkulqo7hrh

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lindavater · 4 years

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🌥🌸⛅️ The sky was pink last night. It echoed the colors of the tulips, their blooms a bit shorter and more tentative than in years past. The pansies and phlox also seem diffident, less profuse and jaunty than last spring. They are being patient and wise in their shyness this year, I think. Waiting for more sun, more warmth, more acceptable circumstances. But ALL of these comparisons serve no good purpose. It just distracts from the beauty they ARE putting on display and the potential for spring glory they still hold on to with a firm grip. . . . #garden-inspired #gardenideas #pansies #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #topiary #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #gravel #flowerstagram #gardenlife #cozycottage #gardendesign #gardenlife #tulips #cottages #cottage #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardenphotography #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin #pinkblooms (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B99hxvalRqC/?igshid=1cwd51iin3lah

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lindavater · 4 years

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🌸🌳🌸 My windowbox doesn’t know about the virus, thank goodness, and is starting to put on its spring extravaganza on schedule. A couple of things :: please head over to my friend @brandonlarkroberts and read his wonderful post today. A brilliant gardening analogy you won’t want to miss. Secondly, I have never been more grateful for my garden and IG community than I am now. For that I thank you. Enough said. 🙏💚🙏 Except, HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY! ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ . . . . . . . . #hangingbaskets #cottagegarden #charleston #tulips #containers #hyacinths #windowboxes #pinkblooms #heismyrefuge #courtyard #windowbox #springflowers #flowers #gardengate #courtyardgarden #fragrantflowers #gardensoftheworld #windowbox #curbappeal #love #countryliving #inhimitrust #charlestonspired #woodlandflowers #victorianhouse #pottedplants #spring #gardenlife #cottagestyle #bulbs (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B912AzMFxCS/?igshid=10p6a2s5g1n2d

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lindavater · 4 years

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💜🌳💜 Do you have something similar in your gardens? This may not be a primrose path, but it IS a passage lined with violas and soon to bloom tulips, ajuga and other sweet treadables in between the stepping stones. Such an easy and charming way to create a shortcut through garden beds, don’t you think? . . . #gardenpath #steppingstones #topiaries #gardenlovers #gardenideas #containergardening #pottedplants #brickwall #garden #pansies #flowerandgarden #jardin #beautifuldecorstyles #gardening #gardendesigner #flagstone #landscapedesign #растения #cottageliving #flowergarden #topiary #путешествие #gardenart #englishgarden #farmhousedecor #gardens #gardendecor #horticulture #plants #spring2020 (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9uCmeFFueg/?igshid=n8zw4let9n3r

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lindavater · 4 years

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🍃🌳🍃 Quick! Look! Cuz I promise you in a week this will look nothing like it looked just yesterday. We’ve got a gentle rain today and with just a bit of 🌞 and warmth next week, my front beds will be an explosion of spring color. Tulips + violas+ pansies + cabbages + chamomile + feverfew + creeping phlox + ajuga + azaleas + vinca minor + gold moneywort +🤩 = LET THE SHOW BEGIN! Drive-by traffic already starting. And that’s just the front! If I have to stay close to home, I’m not gonna complain too much :-). . . . #garden_styles #blueflowers #gardenideas #frontyard #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #topiary #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #lvgardendesignschool #gardenlife #gardendesign #englishcountryhomes #lindavater #cottages #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardenphotography #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin #springdecor #lindavater (at Crown Hts. - Edgemere Hts., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9rcBkdFAam/?igshid=1nqu3hdnv0neg

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lindavater · 4 years

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😳🌳😳 Besides washing your hands, keeping social distance, and not participating in large crowd activities…what kinds of things are you doing in your daily life to give you a sense of control? Please share... as every little idea might be a salve for someone’s anxiety right now. As for me, I will be engaging in LOTS of topiary clipping and meditative pruning. Today I am tackling light starved rosemaries that need some radical snipping to address their straggling ways right now and recapture their form. It helps me feel at least an illusion of control. Pandemic pruning it is. What measures are you taking to maintain your equilibrium? . . . . . . . . #gardeners #herbgarden #topiaries #gardenlovers #gardenideas #containergardening #pottedplants #wateringcan #garden #rosemary #flowerandgarden #jardin #beautifuldecorstyles #gardening #gardendesigner #houseplants #landscapedesign #растения #cottageliving #flowergarden #topiary #путешествие #gardenart #englishgarden #farmhousedecor #gardens #gardendecor #horticulture #plants #spring2020 (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9o04T5ltYZ/?igshid=18xhq1euykbnb

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lindavater · 4 years

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*️⃣🌳*️⃣ You will probably INSTINCTIVELY know the answer to this question...which means you have the makings of a garden designer. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• {Q U E S T I O N} Which plant in this #backyard vignette provides instant excitement and dynamism to the landscape? If you answered “yucca” then you understand the importance of line, shape, and form in garden design. What other plants do you like to use as exclamation points in the garden? • • • #garden_styles #gardenideas #backyarddesign #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #topiary #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #lvgardendesignschool #gardenlife #gardendesign #gardenlife #lindavater #gardendesign #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardenphotography #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin #yucca #lindavater (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9jvw8IF4z3/?igshid=1m7hk97abzlbl

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🍃💜🍃 Do you remember the bark vases I made over the holidays (go to my link in bio for the how-to) and I told you that they would be equally as beautiful in the spring? Well I think I like them even better now, styled with violas and pansies, moss, Iris reticulata, and baby bulbs. A nice little vignette by my front door. Do you agree? . . . #garden_styles #purpleflowers #gardenideas #containergardening #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #topiary #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #lvgardendesignschool #gardenlife #gardendesign #gardenlife #lindavater #cottages #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardenphotography #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9hlWFXF_uN/?igshid=12pmff2upzfrp

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lindavater · 4 years

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🍃🌳🍃 What unusual items do you use in your garden and why? Here’s an oldie but goodie #gardenquicktip that explains my story last weekend about why I keep floral pics in my garden trug. Make sure to watch to the end for my lost-my-focus blooper🤪🤪. . . . #growyourown #gardenideas #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #growyourown #topiary #pruning #countrycottage #boxwood #evergreens #gardenlife #instagardening #gardendesign #gardenlife #mygardenlife #cottages #cottage #lindavater #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #garden_styles #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin #ivyqueen #gardenlifestyle (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9cD65hFt0S/?igshid=14pd9dthcxvif

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lindavater · 4 years

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☘️🌳☘️ Do you love #brickwork as much as I? This zone of brick...part in a herringbone pattern, part a simple run...started out as a brick ‘throw rug’ in front of the wood bench wher I couldn’t get ground cover to grow. I so loved the way it looked, that I expanded the area to the sides. It turned out to be a brilliant, good looking, easy to install solution to a vexing problem. It is simply soft set in a bed sand/dirt and little darlings seed in the crevices. Are used old brick supplemented with more brick from Lowe’s. It took all of a couple of hours, but I think it’s really good looking, don’t you? Will it solve any problems you are currently having in your own garden? . . . #garden_styles #pinkflowers #gardenideas #backyarddesign #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #brickcentral #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #lvgardendesignschool #mygardenflowers #gardendesign #gardenlife #whiteflowers #cottages #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardenphotography #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin #hydrangeas #lindavater (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ZhnmqFA8V/?igshid=9315wplp7vej

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lindavater · 4 years

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🌸🍃🌸 Are you a rose wrangler, and if so, how do train and wrangle them? Please share your best ideas with us as it’s something we rose lovers must learn to master. Here’s one idea I shared in a past video, before I learned how to smile on camera🤣. Tell me if you like this idea and share yours. Oh...and cuz I know you’ll ask, this is a Climbing Old Blush Rose I got from @antiqueroseemporium years ago. Check them out if you are a rose lover...especially for roses that do well in the South. . . . . . . #davidaustinroses #rose #weddingflowers #pinkflower #englishroses #flowersofinstagram #loveroses #gardenroses #rosestagram #roses #whiteroses #pinkroses #garden_styles #pinkflowers #cottagegarden #climbingroses #lattice #countrygarden #cottagedecor #cottagesandbungalows #lvgardendesignschool #englishcountryhomes #cottageliving #gardendesign #gardenlifestyle #gardenaustralia #antiqueroses #countrygarden #springiscoming #verticalgardening (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9WzOfNFGnW/?igshid=i0g5sqylpksl

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🔳🌳🔳 What creative ideas do you have for makeshift, temporary plant stands and tables? Especially ones that are both PRACTICAL and GOOD LOOKING and inexpensive. The cinder block/metal grid “table” (on a surface of gravel) fashioned here has an industrial rugged vibe that looks handsome while in use but can easily be dismantled later. It’s pressed into service here on a somewhat large scale large scale here, but a smaller version would have the same functional good looks. Neat + Tidy + Flexible + Cost Effective = A great looking gardening solution, don’t you think? . . . #growyourownveggies #gardenideas #veggiegarden #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #growyourown #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #cabbages #flowerstagram #gardenlife #cozycottage #gardendesign #gardenlife #mygardenlife #cottages #cottage #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardenphotography #cottagestyle #formmeetsfunction #jardin #potager #gardenlifestyle (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9UdE8XFZYB/?igshid=1oppdkjtr0cx7

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lindavater · 4 years

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🔙🟢🔙 I thought it would be fun to go back in time so you could see what the lawn looked like before I installed #artificialgrass and just AFTER it had been freshly over-seeded with perennial rye and germination had begun. As you can see, the bedlines, edging, and placement of stepping stones looks almost EXACTLY as it does now with the synthetic turf. (Go back in my feed and look at recent images of the back yard for a comparison.) What is NOT the same is the amount of labor, water, time, fertilizing, weeding, disease control, constant wear and tear, degree of frustration, and overall angst I experience each year. Cuz in my mind, it doesn’t matter how good the garden beds look, if the canvas that accompanies it looks like…well, you know😉...(the effect is simply not the same). Very shortly, I will be shooting an extensive interview with the company that installed my grass. We will be discussing absolutely every consideration and cost that goes into making this conversion. Not only where it is applicable, but where it is not. Are you interested?😃 . . . . . #exteriordesign #gardenlife #gardendesign #fauxgreenery #gardendecor #gardenmakeover #turfgrass #gardenersofinstagram #astroturf #syntheticgrass #landscape_love #artificial #lvgardendesignschool #design #decor #artificiallawn #artificialturf #lawncare #ecofriendlyproducts #gardendesign #easigrassuk #syntheticturf #backyard #karpet #fakegrass #decking #landscaping #grass #carpet (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9RvLc0lWTk/?igshid=14r10wfs5no5j

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