Garden House Gallery 

Garden of Maudism   Table Top Gardens  Story of St Rita

   The garden house sits at the end of a woodland trail. As a folly, It's a 'Working' folly because it serves as a gallery for my watercolors and some of my favorite things. It is also a place of peace, of quite, secluded and comfortable, it is a place for meditation, to connect with nature, with your own spirit away from the noise and turmoil of the world.

   I use the power of flowers and aroma therapy is often a part of the experience. The entrance was once a Paris storefront. Most of the glass was missing so I created new panels for it with colorful Japanese lanterns for the morning sun to come through. I made no further attempts to clean it up. Outside a pair of my table top gardens flank the entrance. Inside the niches, I found an architectural salvage yard, are telephone niches from WWII era houses. I painted them and had them lit to display treasures and favorite small things.  The plaster statue is St. Rita once cured my cat Taco of cancer (See: Story of Rita and Taco)

   I enclosed the back of the house and built raised where I had intended to raise organic exotic Asian vegetables from seeds bought on eBay but one turbo cucumber overpowered everything else. Next year I will do flowering vines and cut flowers.

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