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🌸🌳🌸 My 91 year old MIL used to tell me she couldn’t believe a garden like mine could exist in Oklahoma. She loved flowers and bits of gardening herself: roses to cut for the vase, basil for pesto in pots on her deck, pansies in spring - always in blue, never purple. She loved amaryllis at Christmas and was one of the few people I knew who had the patience to get repeat bloom from her orchids. Hubs and I brought her a yellow orchid with hints of purple the day she died. She never tired of the simple charm of a cut bloom on her kitchen table. Maintaining childish delight as we age is a gift...and a key to longevity, don’t you think? . . . #garden_styles #pinkflowers #gardenideas #frontyard #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #topiary #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #lvgardendesignschool #gardenlife #gardendesign #gardenstyle #lindavater #cottages #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardenphotography #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin #foxglove #lindavater https://www.instagram.com/p/B8_sqcdluhV/?igshid=6i47rsvnh5dp

*️⃣🌳*️⃣ 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

🍃💜🍃 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

☘️🌳☘️ 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

🍃🌳🍃 I’ve been asked a lot recently if I mind how many times people reshare my images. My response is always SHARE AWAY as long as you credit my work and provide attribution to @potagerblog . We all learn so much from each other’s posts, and if anyone can learn from mine, or copy a garden strategy from me, I am flattered. You can also visit and follow #lvgardendesignschool if you want to revisit posts specifically dedicated to garden design. Hope that answers your questions🌳😊. . . . . #garden_styles #pinkflowers #gardenideas #backyarddesign #cottageliving #springiscoming #instagarden #topiary #repost #cosycottage #cottagedecor #countrycottage #gardenlife #gardendesign #gardenlife #lindavater #cottages #countryhousestyle #cottagechic #cottagegarden #gardens #gardenofinstagram #gardenphotography #cottagestyle #englishcountryhouse #jardin #hangingbaskets #lindavater (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9CZ7eeAC3W/?igshid=5hsg9se7vudq

💁‍♀️🌳💁‍♀️ CHIC/EASY/INEXPENSIVE! I don’t remember where this image came from. I ran across it in my photos app the other day. But I put a big heart by it, cuz I am definitely doing it this summer. Talk about easy both in execution and care! The appeal is in the simplistic rhythm of metal buckets and mass plantings of easy care annuals displayed on a tableau of gravel. You will want to bookmark this idea just like I did. Here’s the formula: Large metal buckets (old or new with holes for drainage) + Diamond Frost euphorbia + purple fan flower + a third foliage plant of choice (I plan on using scented geraniums. I would do two sets of this trio. A beautiful planting for high summer, when temperatures skyrocket. All of these plants can really handle intense sun and heat! Planning ahead for August when beauty is not easy to come by! #lvgardendesignschool #gardening #gardens #garden_styles #urbangarden #instagarden #gardener #organicgardening #secretgarden #gardendesignideas #urbangardening #lindavater #galvanizeddecor #gardenparty #gravelgarden #gardenlife #gardendesigns #instagardening #purpleandwhite #garden_styles #bucket #gardengoals #rosegarden #gardenideas #gardenplanning #urbangardenersrepublic #instagardenlovers #gardenlove #containergarden #homegarden (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/B71eSw1lLau/?igshid=x773vz6mvp8k

🤔🌳🤔 I’m looking at this pic of my #frontporch from last year and wondering what I want to do to shake it up a bit. What would you do? 1️⃣ Add more color? 2️⃣ Make it less busy and take away some of the #pottedplants ? 3️⃣ Make it more of a place to ‘hang out’ and not just a place to display plants and peak at passers-by? 4️⃣ Bite the bullet and have my windows professionally washed🤪😂🤪. What would you do if this was your porch? . . . . #lvgardendesignschool #lindavater #gardendesign #garden_styles #porches #porchgoals #brickwall #topiary #gardeningtips #gardendesigntips #gardeninspiration #gartenliebe #gardenplanning #gardengoals #mygardenlife #topiary #englishgardens #englishgarden #gardeninspo #tuin #windowbox #porchlife #gardenstudio #buxus #stylishgardening #gardenlover #gardenideas #porchdecor (at Penn Square Mall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7GtUAYl4Nx/?igshid=1bll2aubc5bsg

🍃💜🍃 Do you love this image from Ina’s garden @barefootcontessa__ as much as I? An entirely different #potager vibe than my own. I still have garden trellis inspiration on the brain, so I am digressing a bit from my standard content of just my own garden images. After all, winter is all about garden dreaming is it not…and I have garden goals along with the best of you. 🤩 So, analyzing this trellis vignette, it’s interesting to notice that the trellis on the left is bare...and the existence of a second trellis flanking the other side is? Well, we just don’t know, do we? Is the trellis just implied? is it completely covered? is the design intentionally asymmetrical with just one trellis on the left and visual weight on the right? These questions make this trellis design compelling and mysterious…thus quintessentially appealing...to the eye. Along with all of the other eye candy in this picture of coarse! Such a simple trellis. Yet imagine this design without it. Truly, it’s all in the details… Do you agree? . . . #lvgardendesignschool #barefootcontessa #gardendesign #garden_styles #herbgarden #hydrangeas #gartengestaltung #cottagegarden #topiary #gardeningtips #gardendesigntips #gardeninspiration #gartenliebe #gardenplanning #gardengoals #gardenshed #sheshed #pottingshed #gardeninspo #tuin #cottagegardenstyle #herbgardening #gardenstudio #buxus #stylishgardening #gardenlover #gardenideas #trellis #vegetablegarden (at Hamptons, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Em6XWlt0y/?igshid=1av9arspx1y50