Basket arbor, containers galore in Pam Beasley’s Memphis garden

Even the sanest gardener tin bask a small basket-case fun. Pam Beasley of Memphis has transformed an arbor into a cascade of woven baskets — 1 of the astir wonderfully quirky plot arches I’ve seen. (The terracotta cookware arbor astatine the Antique Rose Emporium is another.) It made for a memorable infinitesimal during the Memphis Fling circuit successful June, particularly beneath towering, pink-flowering crape myrtles.

A tisket, a tasket, she’s filled immoderate of the baskets.

In a cutting plot that Pam describes arsenic the bosom of her garden, a rustic arbor announces “Manor Woods Garden” successful ligament letters, a tribute to her street. Pam says her raised beds proviso flowers for arrangements year-round, with the assistance of passageway covers successful wintertime to widen the increasing season.

Honeysuckle clambers up different arbor, offering its saccharine fragrance to passersby.

Painted furnishings and exuberant flowers springiness a cottage plot vibe.

Pam has adjacent extended her colorful plot into a paved country — the extremity of the driveway, arsenic I callback — by clustering dozens of pots astir a bench.

A array adjacent held a tray of glasses for refreshments.

It was each precise welcoming, including a quiescent country nook with a occurrence pit, surrounded by hydrangeas and different shadiness lovers…

…like this lacy-leaved Japanese maple successful a bluish pot…

…and a glowing philodendron.

In her store workspace, muted vignettes of lamps and plot ornaments stock abstraction with tools and tiny terracotta pots.

Nested pots, seemingly afloat of nesting materials

It was a store immoderate gardener mightiness covet — particularly me. My ain store is jammed with not lone plot tools and leftover overgarment cans but aged camping instrumentality (why?), a dusty aquarium (why??), deflated footballs and volleyballs (why???), and tennis rackets we’ll ne'er usage again. I’m feeling a purge coming connected — conscionable arsenic soon arsenic it cools disconnected outside. No unreserved portion it’s 100F out, right?

Up next: The eclectic and playful Thompson Garden. For a look backmost astatine the Asian-inspired plot of Laurie and Tom Rieman, click here.

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