Daniel Agdag

Daniel Agdag is an Artist who makes beautiful works of art from paper,cardboard to be more exact.

Take a look at some of his work.

Details

Amazing

Not your average pumpkin

As you may already know Autum is not my most favorite time of the year. I do love pumpkins though.

Here's a look at some interesting pumpkin ideas, if you must decorate for the season.

Im not a huge fan of pumpkin towers that seem to be showing up all over town, they would be cool if you did multiples though.

I like to use pumpkins that have some of the twisty vine still attached, it gives that "just picked country look"

The stems also act like handles too. These are easy, just set them in groups on your porch steps or on a table.

Here's an Idea, 'Painted pumpkin Cats' welcome guest and little Trick or Treater's

OOOOO scary pumpkin bats.....fun.

White pumpkins can be very elegant on a table scape, add candles, nuts, and acorns and you are set.

Martha Stewert might show up.

Chalk paint and gold paint, very fancy.

Mini pumpkins as candle globes.

Elegant pumpkins

 An aassortment of gold painted pumpkins and designs

OK, these are not pumpkins. I just thought these Carmel pears look and sounded delicious, don't you?

Remember pumpkins are not just for Halloween

A look at clients garden in fall.

In an earlier post I made it quite clear that fall was not my favorite season.

I will admit that after looking at this clients garden the colors are beautiful, could this mean my views on fall

are changing.

The garden is awash in fall color, this I do like. The Limelight hydrangeas are showing their fall colors and look beautiful against the new gravel and the evergreens.

Pinks and tans are the predominate colors here. The colors of a fall garden a bit less traditional than you average orange and reds. This is a happy surprise,a new interpertaton on fall colors.

Containers planted with Kale's, Mums, and Angelina. Looks like golds may come into play here soon when the shrubs beyond the fence start to color up, this I welcome. 

The colors of a fall garden. This is still not my favorite season, but I'm glad see it worked out here for my client at least. Enjoy

More about my Forest

Though my main thought when I started this blog was to share with you  my love of gardening, I've decided to share with you some of my other loves such as art. By no means am I in the position to be an expert on the subject, I just wanted to show some other things that I find to be interesting.

Lets face it there are plenty of garden blogs out there that feature lots of pretty pictures and ideas on gardening. OK, we get the point, you like to garden, but is that all you like, is that all you can write about.

 I've decided I don't want my blog to become one of these, just another garden blog, I'm opening up. Blogs are about sharing are they not? I think of myself as a visual person. I have always had a big love for the arts whether it be a garden, a beautiful piece of furniture, a stunning piece of architecture, or a well decorated room. I love it all and want to share my other likes with you.

So from time to time I'll be doing some post on other things that interest me, other facet's of my life. There will still be plenty on gardening, but i think by posting some of my other likes you will get a better understanding of who I am and what I have spent my life to become. One of my biggest fears is becoming an un-interesting person.

I'm digging in the Dirt if you will. 

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A look at form in the garden.

I believe that gardens with great form don't rely on a lot of color to make the beautiful and special

places.

 There is no need for much ornament or adornment, the shape and texture should be enough to keep you

enchanted and interested. Evergreens play a huge role here, as they should within any garden.  See the way light and shadow play here on this evergreen wall, as the seasons change the play of light changes

too.

Most Gardener's call this the " bones of a garden" it's what is left when all the ornament is taken away.  If your garden has good bones and good lines, the rest just falls

into place, you may not need any thing else. I am one who loves color, but sometimes it can be a bit too much. Don't cover you bones if you don't have to.

Texture is also important in any garden. Look at how the crisp lines and the shapes play off the softer edges of the grass here.

Even in winter, form and shape speaks loudly here. This is why it is so important to design your garden not only for spring and summer but for fall and winter as well. Gardens should be interesting year round, not look flat when all the flora and foliage has been removed.

 In a formal garden lines, pattern and repetition all play a vital role in good design. Note how your eye is drawn through this garden to the stand of trees beyond. You want to explore further.

Gardens with good form don't need a lot of color to get you attention, no need for Begonia's here. Think about form when you design your next garden, before you fill it up with a lot of gaudy color. You may surprise yourself. Green can be a beautiful color.

Washinton II, the gardens and sculptures

OK, so this is my second post on Washington, here I focus more on the gardens and the sculpture  gardens.

As you may have guessed by now I was really taken by this city. Though I was only there for a day...a rainy day I found myself loving the city and all of the art and the gardens.

The Smithsonian sculpture gardens are un-believable, just look. Sorry I did not get the name of the Artist. It was raining and I was on a mission to take pictures...worry about the details later.

I had never seen Dutchman's pipe blooms except for in a garden catalogue.Very impressive. I guess the best way to see the flowers is to have the vines trained to an over head arch, that way the flowers hang down. I like seeing how other garden work, and getting Ideas. I'll have to try this plant now.

Nope this is not a real tree, well it is a tree sculpture made out of stainless steel. Hmmmm a silver painted tree, that might be fun.

This was the biggest Magnolia tree I have ever seen, sure we have Magnolias here in Michigan, but this I think is one of those southern variates with the large glossy leaves. I thought it was cool the way theses pod sculptures were displayed here...kinda like seed pods from the tree. I bet this tree is spectacular in bloom.

Columnar boxwood's of some age were about seven feet tall. Washington has a warmer climate,  though a lot of the plants were familiar they looked healthier here.

 This was the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden, I don't know who she was but she must have loved gardening. It was nice to see that this garden was so well maintained and full of perennials tropicals and annuals, very inspiring.

I loved the sculpture gardens, once again I apologize for not getting the artist names...ya know with the rain and all. I was holding a umbrella and trying to take pictures.

This garden featured native plants. I like the way that most of the plants were marked and named with those little metal markers. Those little tags really bug me,  they remind me of grave markers, especially when the plant is missing and you're reading a tag for what I guess used to be there.

 Some parts of the Smithsonian are having some restoration work done. In the foreground a rose garden still holding on to some former glory.

Huge planters with palms, under planted with annuals gave me some ideas for future plantings.

These were glass light sculptures out side of the Botanic Gardens offices, a whole new take on landscape lighting. I bet these look great at night.

The Memorials are in beautiful park like settings. The rain did not dampen my enjoyment of this city. When My umbrella got a little too ragged I simply bought a new one and was back on the beat.

 Remember "Weebles wobble but the don't fall down"

And of course another fountain. This was just a glimpse of what I saw here, and I'm sure I missed a lot. Thanks Washington I shall return.