Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Deck-or-ating Again

About this time every year, I rearrange the deck. It was windy Monday afternoon so I decided to move most of my plants to the lattice area to give them a bit of protection. Canna blooms are prone to toppling over on windy days.

I decided that the bright yellow potting bench would be the focal point. It was nice to make the silver artemesia floral arrangements under the shade of the big pine tree.


I moved the glider that has occupied this space all summer to the opposite side. I used the hanging basket hooks for baskets that I use for floral arrangements. To fill in the space below the baskets, I wired on two twig wreaths.
The chairs and bench that used to be in this area was moved down to the opposite end of the deck--near the buddelia bush--so that I can enjoy all the butterflies that love to hang out here. Can you see the butterflies?

There are always 4 or 5 of them on the Butterfly Bush every time I walk by. Today one of them brushed against my hand as it flew away. Here I caught a Monarch in flight! That was exciting.

Remember those bright yellow louvers that were behind the glider? I moved them way down to the far end of the deck.

Then I added a scarecrow in front of the doors and the white bench. I tossed a pinwheel quilt over the bench and moved the clown canna to this end. It just seemed to go so well with that quilt.


I am sure I will change it again--at least one more time before the season ends.

6 comments:

  1. If you were my neighbor, I'd be on your Deck ALL the time!

    It's always beautiful.

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  2. It's nice to change things up-looks really nice. I agree, you need to watch the butterflies while out their.
    And I love your scarecrow!

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  3. terrible grammar-it is 1:30 am...
    there for their of course.

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  4. Very inviting, Zoey ... how charming!

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  5. Hi Zoey, I certainly could use your talent for deck-orating, and would love to take a break on such a beautiful deck. Did you make all those wonderful quilts, too? Excellent photography with the butterflies flitting around; I tried to capture one on film and almost ended up falling in the pond. I'm glad no one had a video camera to see me staggering around the yard with a camera plastered to my face.(And no, I wasn't plastered, either, ha).

    Thanks for your cheery post, I needed it today.

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  6. I saw this post on my blog roll the other day, and was confused for a minute, because it looked like a photo of my deck because of the lattice work. I came over to see it, but didn't get a chance to leave a comment at the time.

    Your place is looking great!

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