Clean cuts

I can't understand why some people hate to prune shrubs.

This is one job that brings so much satisfaction to me.

As tedious as it may seem, I do not mind. I find it therapeutic in a way

Maybe it's the artist in me, My gears turn towards being a sculptor.

Creating a living sculpture.
Maybe this is why some people think of horticulture as a form of art.

Maybe it's the end results. When I look back at my work and see the crisp sharpness of the cuts, and the neatness that has been achieved

There is nothing wrong with a garden that is wild and untamed.

 But this is not that garden. This is a formal boxwood hedge, it was designed  to be
crisp.

Maybe it's the sound of the shears.

Yes hand shears here, none of that electric crap. I find that electric shears do more tearing than cutting.
I don't mind that it takes longer either.
Clean cuts

Janaina Mello Landini

The work of Janaina Mellow Landini

Trees and branches from rope.

Along the wall

This planting I did for a client has pots placed along a wall.

Petunia's , Geraniums, potato vines, grasses, diamond frost, Mandevilla, creeping jenny, Impatiens, all work together in this planting

Purples, reds , pinks, and a little white

all play together with the greens

Actually these containers don't behave, they have a tendency to visit their neighboring pot. by summers end you won't be able to see where one pot ends and the other begins.

This we like.

Ellie Davie's dream-scapes

Ellie Davie's

creates these dream like photo landscapes by adding stars and smoke

When someone gives you lemons, you make miracles

When someone else buys the plant material for their containers ...... well you make it work

A wedding was about to happen here, and the house and the grounds were  gorgeous.

I wrapped the base of these Boxwood shrubs with moss... no one wants to see dirt.... especially at a wedding

I did add to the plant materials like these Mandevilla, because we needed some height.

A combination that I would have never imagined some how worked out fine.

The plant materials were not of my choosing.

I was just asked to plant.

Sometimes you get happy accidents.

I think part of being a Gardner is believing that miracles can happen, and part of being an Artist is making  miracles happen

Need less to say the wedding was beautiful.

Leaf Sculptures by Kay Sekimachi

So delicate

 So Frail

So beautiful

Cup cakes to grow

Too pretty to eat