Best ever kitchen garden inspiration comes from the Betty Crocker Kitchen Gardens book illustrated by Tasha Tudor. Makes me want to get my rows in order!
I've also been enjoying a book about courtyards. My house is a C-shape, north and south wings coming off the main part of the building, so I have a courtyard area. I've been so inspired by gorgeous photos to treat it as such, so I'll need a water feature. Does a crusty birdbath count?
I am sure you could make even a crusty birdbath look great as a starter for the courtyard! It would have character already.
ReplyDeleteAlso forgot to say how much I love Tasha Tudor illustrations.
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A birdbath with character would look lovely in the middle of a lazily structured English cottage garden, I think.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, surely!
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Kimmie
mama to 7
one homemade and 6 adopted
I'm trying hard not to covet your book!!!! I love Tasha Tudor!
ReplyDeleteTasha Tudor is one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite gardening books for inspiration too. :) Mama lets me borrow it. ~'::
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm another BIG Tasha Tudor fan. What great things you could do in a courtyard!
ReplyDeleteI was fortunate enough to find this lovely book at a yard sale for 25 cents once.
ReplyDeleteSounds beautiful. Crusty ol birdbath? Sounds like a great starting point!
ReplyDeleteYes, a crusty birdbath counts!! All the sweet little birds who come to drink and bathe will be all the decoration it needs!
ReplyDeleteI love Tasha Tudor - that book is a real treasure.
a crusty bird bath is the best kind!
ReplyDeletesurround it with some kind of crawling, flowering plant and it will look like Tasha inspired it herself!
I have that book and just love it. Tasha Tudor is a favorite of mine. Thanks for reminding me of it. I'll have to dust it off and look at it again.
ReplyDeleteOf course it would! It would have such character! I also love Tasha Tudor's lovely illustrations!
ReplyDeleteI love the Mary Mason Campbell/Tasha books -- The Butt'ry Shelf Almanac
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I will have to check out this book. I enjoy reading your blog!
ReplyDeleteThat book sounds so lovely.
ReplyDeleteThe crusty birdbath might just be a keeper - but there is nothing like the sound of moving water - if it isn't drowned out by an interstate too close for comfort! I saw wonderful birdbaths tonight with large spherical centers in delicious pottery hues of jade, cobalt and umber - the water burbled up through the sphere and splashed quietly down the smooth sides of the orb and into a simple bird bath - understated elegance for only $300 or so! I'm sure you'll pull together something with snippets of 'this' and thrifted 'that' - and a re-circulating water pump isn't costly! Have fun planning your courtyard!
ReplyDeleteI know that book! Oy, it's lovely...
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for this posting. Even though I am a devoted Tasha Tudor fan, I had never heard of this particular book. I promptly located a copy on ebay and bought it. It just arrived and I am eagerly pouring through it. We recently moved from California to New Hampshire, and we're planning our first kitchen garden on the east coast, so this book is just the inspiration I needed! Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteGoodwife H.
Can you tell us what kind of camera you use and start a photography catgory?? smile
ReplyDeleteLove your blog!
Hoping to see a Crusty Birdbath post this coming spring. And perhaps a courtyard post as well?
ReplyDeleteI have fond memories of the horseshoe-shaped home that my grandfather liked so much that he built another home using the same floor plan when he moved from California to New Mexico. Courtyards are so very charming.
Birdy