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At A Glance: Cold And Rainy

rained out.

Posted on: October 19, 2013 13 Comments

At A Glance: Good Looking Legs

Charisse planter box legs-boxes from Branch

French rose tuteur with seat

orangery box legs

A herm of Pan featuring one leg

Rustic faux bois planter box legs

big legs

scrolled steel chair legs

antique gothic style steel planter legs

no legs

Dutch painted teak garden lounge chair legs

Buck’s pergolas on their way to Florida tomorrow-the roofs needed shipping legs. What could give you a leg up designing a pot or a garden or a landscape? What would help choosing a container or a sculpture for the garden? Do you have a tree to plant that needs a leg up out of a non-draining soil? Look at the legs. How you choose to interact with the ground is really important.

Posted on: October 13, 2013 7 Comments

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At A Glance: The Details

The pictures of the details of the construction of these massive pergolas is not just for our records. We will send a complete set of pictures to the contractor who will be charged with assembling the structures once they get to Florida. Though I have described this Branch project yesterday with few pictures and few words, the actual length of time and the attention to detail has been serious and long. At the risk of boring you beyond all belief, these pictures help to better tell the whole story.
welded lattice

measuring

assembly

raising the barn

panels in place

Note the 2 by 4’s between the vertical panels. Great care was taken to square up the four posts before the roof would be dropped on.

Big enough to house a forklift

finishing the roof

Once both pergolas were finished, cradle structures needed to be built for the roof structures. They are too wide to lay flat. The maximum width of a flatbed truck is 8.5 feet. We are over the legal transport dimension limit. Not a problem. Terry, Michael, Sal, Dave, Enrique, Owen, Scott, Steve, Geri, Dan, Max, and Buck worked together to bring a big idea for the landscape to life. Start to finish. Am I happy with the result? Truly? Yes.

Posted on: October 6, 2013 15 Comments

Filed Under: Garden Ornament, The Branch Studio, Picture This Tagged With: the Branch studio

The Pumpkin Patch

The pictures from Rob’s trip to the pumpkin patch are eloquent in their description of the change of the season. The pumpkins and squash are brilliant in their mature coloration. The fruits of the harvest are juicy and robust.

At the same time that the pumpkins are coming into their glory, the vines that nourished them are fading and blackening from cold. At the time of the harvest, the vines have completed their life span.

Rob says this annual trip to cut pumpkins is one of his favorite moments in the gardening year. As usual, he chooses materials for the shop that reflect his point of view about what is beautiful. There’s not much more to say, other than the fact that his photographs tell a story I never tire of hearing.