Linda Pittman’s blue suede shade garden: Memphis Fling

Y’all, it has been a BUSY summer (and it’s lone conscionable started), but I’m excited to statesman sharing gardens from the Memphis Fling tour. The Garden Fling is an yearly meetup of gardeners connected societal media, with a 3-to-4-day plot tour, held successful a antithetic metropolis each year. I’ve ne'er missed a Fling since it began successful Austin backmost successful 2008. It’s an accidental to spot gardens successful a antithetic region, instrumentality photos for my library, larn astir different city’s gardening culture, and conscionable different plot lovers who stock their passionateness online. I’ve learned truthful overmuch from this lawsuit implicit the years, positive it’s fun!

I’m kicking disconnected my Memphis Fling blog posts with Linda Pittman’s garden, which we visited connected Day 2. In grant of Memphis’s astir celebrated autochthonal son, I’m dubbing Linda’s plot the “blue suede shadiness garden.” Tucked nether gangly trees, her taupe location with denim-blue accents retires into the background, giving halfway signifier to burgundy Japanese maples, pink- and blue-flowering hydrangeas, and tons of lime-green foliage.

Quirky plot accents — astir ever bluish — abound, similar this ice-cream-parlor chair-turned-planter. A bright-blue grasshopper involvement adds a small whimsy.

Linda’s plot shows however a shadiness plot tin beryllium richly colorful. Sure, she has gorgeous flowering hydrangeas, but her foliage plants supply conscionable arsenic overmuch impact, and the colour lasts longer. (And no, I person nary thought what that beauteous variegated works is. Identifying plants successful different regions of the state is not my forte. I’m present for the vibes!)

As I made my 2nd walk done the garden, the prima came retired and spotlit an angel birdbath tucked among the plants. Ooh! This is wherefore I similar to marque aggregate walk-throughs successful a plot — that and trying for shots without a busload of radical successful the background.

A wider view. This is the street-facing garden, caput you. What a acquisition to the neighborhood.

Color from flowers and foliage

Potted succulents are shown disconnected connected a metal-mesh plot bench, but what caught my oculus is simply a comic blue-bottle…dog?

I’m not definite what he’s meant to be, but I ever bask a small garden creativity with bluish bottles.

On a Last of Us histrion stump, terracotta pots with kindly faces marque a affable welcome.

In the backmost garden, histrion limb radical — smartly wearing belts — made maine laughter retired loud. They prompted a representation of Bedrock Gardens, wherever successful the Dark Woods, histrion limb radical besides lurk.

Eye-catching texture and signifier successful a tapestry of greenery.

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A bluish shed successful 1 country makes a focal constituent for aggregate paths. Topped with a purple food and accented with different splashes of purple, positive a achromatic picket fence, it’s a charming feature.

Shade-dimmed seating nooks are brightened with mirrors hung connected fences. I ever interest astir birds striking ample mirrors (or unscreened windows) successful a garden, but you tin bent cords implicit them to forestall this.

A vessel tree, a classical Southern accent, captures much light.

Another mirror-brightened seating nook

More blue

And more!

A metal-and-glass lightning bug hangs retired connected a histrion stump entwined by a vine.

Back retired beforehand I ran into Becca and Teri enjoying the garden.

Rachel was making 1 of her speedy plot sketches — which she did successful each 1 of the 40 oregon truthful gardens we visited during the Fling. I was truthful impressed by her talent.

A redbud frames a plot view. At its feet…

…little reddish wagons person been turned into moveable planters.

Another shady scene

Dazzling fern

And 1 past blue-suede moment.

Up next: Casa Rosa, a romanticist plot successful pinkish with San Miguel vibes.

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