This little vignette at a client’s home pleased me to no end on this lovely spring day and I just wanted to share this with you. I thought it illustrated a couple of cool things.
1) My client bought this steel pot because she simply fell in love with it and HAD to have it. I can totally understand this, I would too!
It’s common in my line of work that I’m the one that has to figure out where and how to fit this new thing of passion into a particular garden design. My homework assignment to the client was to find a great rock to pair with the container and help balance the scene. Since the homeowner’s son is very helpful in the garden he took the rock task on. And THIS is the fantastic rock that he chose. So much subtlety, elegance and geometry. It perfectly fit my vision for the spot!
2) One of the great things about Personal Garden Coaching that I LOVE is that I get to encourage homeowners to do what they already wanted to do by their own natural instincts….take down a tree, move a shrub, throw away bad plants. But the best times are when I give the client permission to have fun with it, be creative, and they do! I think nature is so much more a part of us than we give her a chance to be and when we let ourselves be open to it, such amazing thing can happen. When gardener’s open up to being creative and have fun with it, they free up themselves to not need so much permission to try new things in other areas of life.
This rock might not look that exciting, but to me, it means SO much more than just a piece in the garden.
THE Personal Garden Coach 
You are so right, sometimes all a new gardener needs is to have the ‘go ahead’ to be creative… it certainly worked here. I’m definitely lusting after that steel pot, and the Angelina is a perfect fit. Great coaching!!!
Steve, didn’t know you were coaching! My physical status says I’m no longer a ‘spring chicken and I sure could use some good ideas for a minimal care garden/yard.
Not quite sure who Steve is, but thanks! 🙂