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Turn a patio or deck into a year round sunroom

by Tricia

My brother is on holidays this week and on Monday he came to visit. It was a fairly nice day – not too warm although it was humid, so we sat outside in my garden for about an hour and a half.

Since the weathers been kind of odd this year – either lots of rain and storms or hot and humid, I haven’t spent a great deal of time sitting on my patio enjoying my garden this summer. It was nice to just sit in the garden and to not be doing garden work!

My brother and I talked about a number of things as we hadn’t seen each other for a while. He talked to me about plans for his garden and he also mentioned that he and his wife had been thinking of tearing down their deck and making a glass enclosed sunroom to enjoy year round.

I thought his sunroom idea was fantastic and I immediately starting thinking about how he and his wife could decorate the room with loose flowing curtains on the windows to give them so privacy when they wanted to be out of the eye of their neighbors.

My brother wasn’t that into my curtain idea as he really likes the idea of having the sunroom totally open, but if I ever turned our enclosed back porch and possibly part of our patio into a sunroom I think I’d have some flowing curtains that I could close for privacy.

I’d also decorate the sunroom with furnishings like some of the fantastic pieces of modern furniture from NYC Concept Furniture.

They have some beautiful sofas and sectionals that I think would look great in a garden themed sunroom. They also have some lovely tables that would work well in an open concept room.

Their selection of designer modern furniture is of high quality and it’s all been made in Europe. They’ve obtained a wide variety of furnishings for the living room, dining room, bedroom and other areas of the home from designers in Germany, Spain, Italy and Belgium.

Being in Canada I’ll probably have to get furniture for my possible sunroom locally, but if you are in the Greater NY/NJ/CT are you might want to take a look at what NYC Concept Furniture has to offer.






Filed Under: Accessories, Decor, Great Sites, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Renovating and DIY, Shopping Tagged With: all glass, Belgium, Concept furniture, curtain, decorate, designer, Europe, flowing curtains, furniture, garden, Germany, glass, Italy, modern furniture, NJ, NY, NYC, open concept, patio, porch, quality, sectional, selection, sofa, Spain, summer, sun room, sunroom, tables, variety

Rudbeckia bud about to bloom

by Tricia

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rudbeckia bud about to bloom

I love the way Rudbeckia (also known as Black eyed Susan) buds unfurl as they prepare to bloom. They look like some kind of alien creature about to be born don’t they?

Filed Under: Blooming today, Photography, Recreation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: about to bloom, alien, black, Black eyed susan, bloom, bud, creature, flower, rudbeckia, unfurl, Wordless Wednesday, WW, yellow

My Hydrangea can’t decide if it’s pink or blue

by Tricia

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Last year I bought a Hydrangea plant for my garden.

I think I bought it in August or September so it didn’t do anything last year except settle itself into it’s new home. I believe it’s an Endless Summer Hydrangea and it was definitely labeled as a *pink* hydrangea.

It started to bloom about two weeks ago, and much to my surprise it’s flower clusters are not pink, nor are they blue … they are bi-colored!

Confused Hydrangea - blue and pink at same time!

My Hydrangea is severely confused!

I guess I’d better decide if I really want it to be pink or blue and then get out there and amend the soil appropriately. I believe you need to add lime to the soil if you want pink Hydrangeas and Aluminum to the soil if you want blue Hydrangeas. I’ll do some research.

If you have hydrangeas, did yours ever do this? Isn’t it strange?

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Filed Under: Blooming today, Garden Buzz, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Summer in the Garden, Toronto Tagged With: add aluminum to soil, add lime to soil, aluminum, ammend, bi-color hydrangea, bloom, flower, garden, Green Thumb Sunday, GTS, hydrangea, Hydrangeas, lime, pink and blue hydrangea, plant, soil, Summer Hydrangea, surprise

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