Simple Pleasures

Bare, worn chairs create mobile garden rooms for reading, resting, or following the ever-changing theater of the garden. Position is important. Hide a pair of chairs around a corner of a garden path. Tuck a creaky rocker within view and hearing of water features or within sight of a favorite garden feature.

Small, smooth stones serve almost as a landscape grout, filling gaps between the larger landscape structures and the plant material.

Handcrafted bird "condominiums" draw bluebirds, jenny wrens, and swallows. The lofty birdhouses encircle a dining area in a wildflower meadow. Morning-glories climb the poles; sunflowers and cornflowers bloom between them.