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Our un-staged garden

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Today is our first day back to school and the kids were so so bummed. I have my mixed feelings, that’s for sure.

So because I haven’t had much time yet to do anything else besides unpack, clean and purge out rooms and drawers, I thought I’d share our end of summer garden with you today.

If you’ve seen my summer tour (click HERE) then you have seen it in the early stages of blooming and with a table setting.

This time I decided to show how everything looks now and also unstaged. It’s the way everything looks when I walk outside with my cup of coffee in the morning, which is exactly what I did this weekend. You might have seen that already on snapchat (@cuckoo4design) while I was eating my breakfast.

I had my coffee and took some photos while our calico cat Lilly accompanied me. She’s our little cat-dog who occasionally now comes out of her catio (click HERE) to walk the yard with us.

Remember the below photo from the beginning of the summer?

bright colored summer patio table setting

That is obviously not what it looks like every day. It might look like that when we have guests or the family is sitting down to eat. Below is what it looks like every day and my neighbor’s can attest to that.

un-staged garden

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Look at the weeds in the cracks above. I better do some picking!

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She’s so so sweet!

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Our pride are the gigantic elephant ears every year. They are a lot of work to dig up and bring inside every fall but so worth it I think. Look at the leaf against my hand!

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My favorite ornamental grass:

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The below “bird of paradise” which I had bought for my summer home tour (click HERE if you missed it) did really well outside while we were gone. I had it hooked up to a soaker hose on a timer. I hope it will live happily inside in the winter too. There isn’t as much light inside for sure though.

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Everything else is severely overgrown and ready for fall.

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This sweet young man was not ready for school to start again even though he said he was when he was in Germany.
If you missed last weeks post for what I brought home from Germany, then you can click HERE to see it.

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And I could only snatch a shot of these two old grumpy sweet ladies with my flash. They weren’t into the photo session at all.

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Have a great week.

Tschüß

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  1. cassie @ primitive & proper says

    August 29, 2016 at 5:24 am

    your garden is beautiful… much prettier than mine when mine is staged! 😉 so lush and lovely!

  2. Esther Books says

    August 29, 2016 at 10:32 am

    I voted! I wish all votes were this easy 🙂

    • Julia says

      August 29, 2016 at 11:33 am

      Thanks so much and I agree.

  3. Sueli says

    August 29, 2016 at 1:46 pm

    Your garden looks soo beautiful. I like the naturalistic look best.
    xx

    • Julia says

      August 29, 2016 at 4:01 pm

      Thanks so much, it’s the perfect spot for my morning coffee and evening glass of wine

  4. Pete East says

    August 30, 2016 at 12:22 am

    The perfect place to unwind after a hard day’s work and have a serene morning the next day! I really love your garden.

  5. [email protected] says

    August 30, 2016 at 8:25 am

    I love how green everything is! And the kitties of course 🙂

    • Julia says

      August 30, 2016 at 8:09 pm

      I missed my kitties

  6. Miranda says

    August 30, 2016 at 10:07 am

    I love it a bit wild! Opposite is a Japanese garden where everything is in place. So cute that unstaged cat!

    • Julia says

      August 30, 2016 at 8:08 pm

      She is a pretty cute unstaged cat. I don’t think I could ever stage them, they’d tell me something else

  7. [email protected] says

    August 31, 2016 at 12:11 pm

    Stunning, just stunning. You wouldn’t want to see our unstaged backyard. Yikes!

  8. Thérèse says

    September 1, 2016 at 1:10 am

    I love people who love cats

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