10 | Autor: Top Drawer
Earlier in the summer, we asked for your garden stories. You sent in so many that we didn't have leeway for them all. Over the past few weeks, we've published a few more in this column. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
"The youngest of three generations living in the same building in rural West Tennessee, I recall, just before her decease in 1950, my grandmother planting three peony bushes whose blooms we later on gathered each Decoration Day to grace her grave. Fifty years later, her daughter-in-law, my nurture, transplanted the bushes when, following my father's death, she found it indispensable to downsize to a smaller home. Both of the homes are now but memories for me, also a displace, but I always feel the miles and years disappear when peonies bloom." -- Sarah Davis, Murfreesboro
"When I was in preschool, I trailed behind my architect in the backyard, and he taught me the names of the flowers. A Crimson Greatness rose bush, full of red blooms, climbed a trellis at the side of our back porch. Daddy had to keep it pruned, or it would have grown across the roof." -- Jean Martin, Raleigh
You don't have to reside at the beach to enjoy that lifestyle. And you can get ideas on how to incorporate that fashion into your home by touring Coastal Living magazine's 2009 Hint House in Southport. We're telling you about it early so you can make plans to push down. Tours run Sept. 3 to Nov. 29. The house is in Seawatch at Sunset Harbor, a 3,000-acre waterfront community 30 miles south of Wilmington.
Placing a gargantuan pillar candle inside lights your table with romance and mind's eye. The same lantern hung from rafters, with light inside will design an
