GARDENING: ROSES - GARDEN TOUR 7

HOME SWEET HOMEITS ALL ABOUT THE ROSESSometimes just the right touch can make a beautiful project spectacularLast Summer I finished up this hardscape remodel in Mission Viejo.  The homeowner put in new landscaping to compliment the new look of the home, but the patio was still a little bare.


A quick trip to a local nursery and we found these great pots (lightweight as well)We planted them with Source URL: http://costumesgirl.blogspot.com/2010/06/
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GARDENING: COTTAGE GARDEN - SHABBY CHIC

WELCOME TO THE MAGIC OF CAROLANNE'S GARDENSunny Southern California

welcome heart
Carolanne's garden is a magical place.  So magical, in fact, that I couldn't seem to stop taking pictures.  I know I took way too many - so I will keep the commentary to a minimum and just let you enjoy the beauty that is Carolanne's garden.

wrought iron bench - front yard



garden view from the street
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GARDENING: SO. CALIFORNIA ROSES AND BEGONIAS

GARDEN BLISS

DAVID AUSTIN ENGLISH ROSE - GERTRUDE JEKYLL


The most rewarding part of creating the Garden Tour online this year has been the ability to include non-local gardens.  A virtual tour allows you to see gardens in Utah, Colorado, England and France, as well as the California gardens you will see today.  These photos from Shawna's garden in South Orange County, California, left me Source URL: http://costumesgirl.blogspot.com/2010/06/
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Sigiriya

Here is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Sigiriya mean Lion's rock. This site is an ancient rock fortress and palace ruin. Located in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka, surrounded by the remains of an extensive network of gardens, reservoirs, and other structures. Sigiriya is one of popular travel destination in Sri Lanka, also renowned for its ancient paintings which are reminiscent of the Ajanta Caves of India.

This beautiful place was built during the reign of King Kassapa I, about AD 477 – 495, and it is one of the seven World Heritage Sites of Sri Lanka.




Sigiriya may have been inhabited through prehistoric times. It was used as a rock-shelter mountain monastery from about the 5th century BC, with caves prepared and donated by devotees to the Buddhist Sangha. The garden and palace were built by King Kasyapa. Following King Kasyapa's death, it was again a monastery complex up to about the 14th century, after which it was abandoned. . The Sigiri inscriptions were deciphered by the archaeologist Senarath Paranavithana in his renowned two-volume work, published by Oxford, Sigiri Graffiti. He also wrote the popular book "Story of Sigiriya”



Sigiriya consists of an ancient castle built by King Kasyapa during the 5th century AD. The Sigiriya site has the remains of an upper palace sited on the flat top of the rock, a mid-level terrace that includes the Lion Gate and the mirror wall with its frescoes, the lower palace that clings to the slopes below the rock, and the moats, walls and gardens that extend for some hundreds of metres out from the base of the rock.Source URL: http://costumesgirl.blogspot.com/2010/06/
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GARDENING: PLANTS AND CURB APPEAL - UTAH PERGOLA PROJECT

CURB APPEALCreate a warm welcome with plants
nothing welcomes as beautifully as flowers
even when there is no front 'yard', a garden can come in the form of planted potsstrategically placed on the front stepsa front porch
or a city staircase

English country style garden
and if there is a front yard, a beautiful landscape creates instant curb appeala front porch and a curving path beckon you to Source URL: http://costumesgirl.blogspot.com/2010/06/
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GARDENING: LOUISIANA BAYOU - SO. CALIFORNIA TROPICAL PARADISE

..IN THE AFTERMATH OF KATRINAMy husband went to Louisiana to do some relief work in the area.  We'd never visited the South, so after his job was completed, we joined him.  It was an beautiful trip and an amazing adventure.  We actually stayed at a haunted plantation, and had an encounter with the ghost . . . but that is a story for another time...
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GARDENING: GREEN GARDEN IN PROVENCE & ROCKY MOUNTAIN GARDEN IN UTAH

DAY 2GREEN GARDENSNot every garden explodes with a riot of colorsome have a quiet beauty all their own in verdant, calming shades of green 

green shrub garden
I recently realized that that among the photos I had collected of gardens I love, there were a lot of gardens created from trees and shrubs - a garden of greens, a palette of textures in every imaginable shade of that color.  I love Source URL: http://costumesgirl.blogspot.com/2010/06/
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GARDENING: COLORADO IRISES, WARD & CHILD GARDENS IN UTAH

GARDENING IN THE WILD WEST
COLORADODEBRA ANNE'S IRISES AND VIBURNUMI'm so excited to begin our garden tour, and hope you will be as inspired as I have been!


bearded iris in a colorado garden

Welcome to Debra Anne's Colorado garden - and in particular her beautiful bearded irises...

lavender iris


purple and gold iris


purple iris
and her viburnum (snowball bush)

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The Chichen Itza

 Chichen Itza is one of amazing in the world. This bulding is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site located in the northern centre of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Yucatán state, present-day Mexico. This site was built by Maya Civilization, and become the major focal point point in the northern Maya lowlands from the Late Classic through the Terminal Classic and into the early portion of the Early Postclassic period





The site exhibits a multitude of architectural styles, from what is called “Mexicanized” and reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico to the Puuc style found among the Puuc Maya of the northern lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles was once thought to have been representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but most contemporary interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion.




The ruins of Chichen Itza are federal property, and the site’s stewardship is maintained by Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History, INAH). The land under the monuments had been privately-owned until March 29, 2010, when it was purchased by the state of Yucatan.



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GARDENING: SPRING GARDEN TOUR / SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES

Love bird garden fountain
The countdown to the Spring Garden Tour  (Virtual) has begun and I must admit, I have caught a bad case of Spring Fever!

I'm so looking forward to seeing your garden photos and adding them to the upcoming tour.  Please forward them to me, if you haven't already. (your-nest@hotmail.com) Everyone is invited to participate - you don't need an invitation - just a camera Source URL: http://costumesgirl.blogspot.com/2010/06/
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