I adore what Lorene Edwards Forkner wrote about her garden being her canvas, her vision, her voice. That is what mine has been since we moved to our little piece of parardise back in June of 1996.
Everything about my garden is personal, as epitimized by my garden shed. It was a family project that began when I brought home a pair of cast-off leaded glass cabinet windows.
It turned into the playhouse I dreamed of as a little girl- only I had more imagination and a bit more money than growing up ):-. My husband and our sons built the Victorian shed tall, to make the most of a small footprint. I learned to lay a brick floor, hung lace curtains and designed a stained glass window to fit the transom space.
It was one thing to design the window- It was another to build it. While I built up my courage to take on a complex stained glass piece, my husband teasingly painted a primitive garden on a piece of plywood to hold the space.
The Pièce de résistance transom window is named in honor of my mother. “Ethel’s Garden”. 400 hand selected and crafted glass pieces reflect our ersonal vision of Eden: with birds and butterflies enjoying a garden of abundant with flowers. Solar-lit at night, the 46 “ wide x 20” high framed leaded glass panel is a beacon on our evening walks.
This is one of the sites where I have written about it (with pictures)
http://averygoodlife.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2011-09-28T09:28:00-07:00&max-results=50&start=23&by-date=false
