I think you may have heard or read me bang on about my love of canopy, and I can trace this back to my parents’ four poster bed, which my mother had upholstered in the eighties with a bright green sunburst and rosy chintz curtains with tiebacks and raspberry pink piping and frills coming out of the piping.
With you all the way - my pergola on year 4 now completely covered from above and roses/ jasmine blooming up the side. I lie in there on a lounger or hammock (refuse to put table in there) and look up .. all is right with the world 🌍
When I bought my house 38 years ago I thought a south west facing garden was the bees knees. But climate change has caught up with me, and the terrace is like the Sahara desert when the sun is out. Parasols and sail shades just don’t cut it, so I
am creating a vine covered pergola. Expensive, but the shade will be delicious.
There’s nothing in life I want more than an Odd Rocker, also traceable to an 80s memory as a child (in my grandparents’s garden, with large yellow and brown flowers and a white fringe).
From that small snippet of info think I can picture exactly what your cousin was like! Is she just the same now I wonder. How glorious a child-sized four poster must have been, I would have loved that. As a child I was obsessed with the idea of having a child-sized cottage in the garden (yes, like the queen!) I think I had seen the little Welsh cottage in a magazine or on TV and thought my dad could make me one...
I had an Austrian friend who had JUST such a cottage… lucky lucky girl (and she knew she was lucky too, which made me love her all the more)…heaven. I made my daughter a pink Wendy house and she hardly even looked at it!! X
I love this Laetitia- I’m plagued by a garden overlooked by TEN houses but it’s so small even a small tree is starting to dominate. I don’t want to spend as it’s certainly not my forever house but, absolute genius, a couple of brollies will do the trick. Thank you!
With you all the way - my pergola on year 4 now completely covered from above and roses/ jasmine blooming up the side. I lie in there on a lounger or hammock (refuse to put table in there) and look up .. all is right with the world 🌍
I think there must be something primal and important about looking into a canopy
When I bought my house 38 years ago I thought a south west facing garden was the bees knees. But climate change has caught up with me, and the terrace is like the Sahara desert when the sun is out. Parasols and sail shades just don’t cut it, so I
am creating a vine covered pergola. Expensive, but the shade will be delicious.
I am so with you…after years of trying everything else!
There’s nothing in life I want more than an Odd Rocker, also traceable to an 80s memory as a child (in my grandparents’s garden, with large yellow and brown flowers and a white fringe).
I feel sorry for all the people who don’t have 80s memories. They are the best
From that small snippet of info think I can picture exactly what your cousin was like! Is she just the same now I wonder. How glorious a child-sized four poster must have been, I would have loved that. As a child I was obsessed with the idea of having a child-sized cottage in the garden (yes, like the queen!) I think I had seen the little Welsh cottage in a magazine or on TV and thought my dad could make me one...
I had an Austrian friend who had JUST such a cottage… lucky lucky girl (and she knew she was lucky too, which made me love her all the more)…heaven. I made my daughter a pink Wendy house and she hardly even looked at it!! X
Yes! A living canopy is absolutely the best!
I love this Laetitia- I’m plagued by a garden overlooked by TEN houses but it’s so small even a small tree is starting to dominate. I don’t want to spend as it’s certainly not my forever house but, absolute genius, a couple of brollies will do the trick. Thank you!
😍😍😍 I think the sunshine is on its way back