I don't know. Guess I'll sleep on it.
cottage names
Brigadoon...
Chris, I think the Bloomin' Bungy is perfect! How cute is your home??!
We love the psychedelic 60's (and girl groups!!) so we painted our home Green and Purple - the colors on the Jefferson Airplane home in 1967. However, since our last name is Ward, our friend named our home Ward 81, which at Bellevue Hospital is a heavy duty mental ward. There's a song by a band called The Fuzztones named "Ward 81" (they are a psychedelic garage band). So it is fitting! I highly doubt that anyone else has a cottage named after a psychiatric ward!
The garden is called The Electric Garden, also after a psychedelic song by an English band called The Nerve "I'm sowing the seeds to plant the garden where time stands still" is one line and "Meet me in the Electric Garden and we shall have a special time" is another line. Fitting for an exuberant cottage garden!
GGG
Wonder if the garden is in Itchycoo Park?
(Sorry, a flash back from the 60's ...)
Love it, girlgroupgirl. :)
-Joe
Sometimes the name just comes...
My daughter has been trying to decide what to name her cottage playhouse for months. Today she got to see the plans and we found out they are putting scalloped siding on the front of the porch and in the side peaks. She had been planning to have it painted purple and pale yellow, but knowing about the scallops she has decided they look like scales and she is going to have it painted green and pale yellow. Naming it came easy after that.
Dragon's Lair
A picture of the plans coloured in the way she wants are at the bottom of this thread. http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/719745/
That is an AWESOME playhouse. Our little backyard cottage is named La Folie des Chiots (The Madness of the Pups) -- since I have a handful of dogs, it seems appropriate.
I do have a question -- what forum would be the appropriate place to post a question about new paint colors for our house, with respect to the period (1938) and the gardens and the backyard cottage colors? I'd like the house to fully-integrate into the cottage garden a-building, but I'm not sure where to post the query for ideas on paint colors. We're painting the exterior (we hope!) this summer.
Hmmm, there used to be a forum called "Curb Appeal"... it may have been renamed, but I can't figure out where it went!
I think this is the perfect forum. Do you have pics to post?
I want to see pics too! I was just trying to think whether there might be a forum where she could get some wider input... but darned if I can figure out where "Curb Appeal" went! LOL
Oh, just wanted to add... please start a new thread with regard to the house colors... thanks!
... and post a link to it here! :-)
http://www.amazon.com/Living-Willow-Sculpture-Jon-Warnes/dp/0855328347/ref=sr_1_1/103-2040795-0719825?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182360502&sr=1-1
This is a link to a book about living willow structures. I'm finding it really fascinating. (Okay, okay, okay! I'm fantasizing about a career change!) I planted a weeping willow out front, and I'm definitely going to put up a living willow fence in the back yard AND...
I'm naming my house "The Willows."
Whaddya think?
I love it!!!
Me too! Sounds so relaxing.
I love it also!
Thanks! I hope I can get the place to live up to it. I'm really excited about my weeping willow, though if I tried to take a picture of it you probably wouldn't be able to see it in a photo. It IS taller than I am -- but quite a bit thinner! It's in "second year, creep" mode. It will take off.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/729311/ -- this is the link to Susannah_C's cottage. Check it out!!!
Hence the term "willowy", I guess.... >smile<
I think it is a great name - brings to mind a peaceful place.
It is restful, isn't it?
"willowy..." I was willowy once... about 30 years and 4 children ago...
Me too, in 3rd grade!
LOL
Hey! Thanks for the mention of my little La Folie des Chiots. It's a damp La Folie these days; we have had So Much Rain!
Here's the photo, not as bright as it might be if it had been taken in some sun!
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3553859
By the way, "The Willows" sounds like a place I might want to take a good book and sit outside with a glass of lemonade. I love it! :-)
There will be plenty of places to snug down with a book and some lemonade, believe me! But about 5 to 8 months out of the year it's too hot, unfortunately. But the rest of the year, it's hard to stay inside, so it's well worth it. One day I WILL have that very very English tea party...
Susannah, your little garden cottage is adorable. I just love it. The colors are great and the surrounding plants are wonderful. Very nice!
Gwen