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we're looking for a garden- equipped with fountains and statues- somewhere in kentucky! have no idea where to find one... please help if you can!

This might help:

2008-05-07 06:13:39 by Ash♥Ken

www.buddhadecor.com offers Garden Buddha Statues amp; Fountains. Buddha Garden Statues depict Buddha in a Meditation Pose, amp; Standing amp ...

Hi
I'm looking into making a garden fountain for a new setup I'll be making, and I need a black basin. I was wondering if anyone would be selling any, or would know where I could find a good, cheap one. Preferably plastic, and I would really like it to be curved. Kind of in a U shape, because I want it to go around a small statue. It doesn't need to be huge, maybe a few feet wide(not including empty center, if curved), and a few feet long...it's no matter how deep it is, as long as it's good for a fountain.

Home Depot and Lowes both sell them in the garden department and they come in many sizes and shapes. Although most of the curved ones are kidney shaped, they fit around a statue beautifully because I did exactly that with one in my own yard.

2009-03-13 11:19:17 by Anna

Price: $50.00

So far I have:

Narrow stairwells & doorways (for, like, say you build your own home)
Tapestry rugs
Bells
Tea (and having 'High Tea')
High iron gates at the front of the property
Flower Gardens, complete with statues & fountains.
Large lawns
No cabinet, no shelf kitchens(i.e. 'worktables' with dish slots, pothanger & spice dishes)
Double doors for the kitchen & front door, arched doorway in all other downstairs entrances.
Has a library (aside from "converted bedroom")
Has a parlour (aside from the family room)
Window seats
Large windows
Lots of mirrors
Small meals
Proper manners



So, other than these things, what else can you think of that are distinctly European things that can be inconspicuously incorporated into an Americans home and/or lifestyle?

Mercedes benz, Audi, Jaguar to name a few.
I love the way they hold the fork in the left hand to eat.

2009-08-05 21:29:27 by Life is a highway

Price: $67.99

Circulates 210 gallons per hour for bird baths, spas, and other water features
Includes 20-foot power cord; 2-year manufacturer warranty
Water pump for small ponds, garden waterfalls, fountains

What I want to know is, can you actually see this scene in your head as you read it. If you can't, what could I do to improve it?
Its the beginning of a historical literary novel set in the 1850's.

CHAPTER 1

The rain lashed hungrily against the draped windows of the sickroom as I sat beside Mother’s bed. It was one of those days when the world seemed gray, although to my view everything had been gray for so long that it didn’t make much difference whether it was raining or not. I looked at Mother’s wasted face against her red pillow, a mixture of bitterness and pity rising in my throat. I took her translucent hand and ran my fingers over it. Her bones felt fragile, brittle, like a tiny bird’s. She stirred at my touch and her eyes opened.
“Clifton?”
“I’m here.” The last of my bitterness faded as I looked at the brown, circled eyes dominating her white face.
“Do you still resent me?” She whispered, trying to sit up.
I pushed her down.
“What is there to resent you for? I asked with a bitter laugh. “That the girl I loved was a common whore and you knew it before I did?”
She turned her head away.
“Clifton…”
“It isn’t your fault. I know and—”
“Clifton, I need to tell—”
It’s aright Mother. I’m not angry anymore. I—”
“Clifton, listen to me for one moment without interrupting.”
I took her other hand.
“Yes.”
For a moment she just stared up at me, her eyes racked with some kind of pain and struggle. Her head fell slack against the pillow and she whispered,
“There’s something I want you to know—about, Lotte.”
I stiffened; the odor of her medicine suddenly seemed stronger.
“I don’t want to discuss her.”
Her bird hands gripped my own with more strength than I knew she had left.
“You have to listen to me.”
I looked at the flush taking over her face. She was getting too excited. I bit my lip hard.
“Alright, I’m listening.”
Lotte—“she pulled her hands from my grip— “told you the truth.” Her voice was shaking. My body locked into a rigid stillness at her words.
“What do you mean?”
She turned her face away.
“Stottan— forced himself on her…”
The chair beneath me lost all illusion of stability.
“How do you know?”
“I overheard he and his friends talking while they stayed at Northcott Manor.” Her voice was a wisp of sound.
I became intensely aware of the beating of my heart, as if its rhythm was the only thing anchoring me to sanity.
“Stottan hasn’t stayed here for over three years,” I said in a carefully blank voice. I felt shame for myself and rage at her crash over me until I could hardly breathe.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” My voice sounded strange, as it where coming from someone else.
“I—I didn’t want to be you to disgrace us by forming an alliance with that girl.” Her voice sounded like it was about to fall to shreds. Her tiny body began shaking with sobs, but the sound of them seemed distant, and all I could feel was a red heat building up in me until all I felt was anger. At her, at myself, at everything. I stood up and looked down at her sobbing form.
“Do you have any idea what I said to her? I told her that I hated her, I called her a whore…” Mother writhed at my words, but any trace of pity had left my soul. She should suffer, she deserved to suffer.
“She was with child,” I said in a voice of quiet steel. “But she couldn’t have find a position to support it with—no decent person would even greet her in the street, much less hire her after of the lies Stottan told,” My voice lost its quietness. “The lies you knew could have contradicted.”
“Stop it…” Mother’s voice was like a tortured animal. “Do you think I haven’t suffered enough already?”
I walked over to the window and pulled back the red drapes. The rain had slowed to a drizzle.
“No, you should burn in hell for what you did.”
Her sobs intensified.
“Clifton please—”
“I’ll go get Father, I said, and left the room.
Father went to tend to her, and I climbed the stairs to my rooms on the third floor and walked out onto the balcony that adjoined my suite. Wetness dripped down my face. It was raining hard again and every drop seemed to sear down my flesh. I ran my raked my fingers through my hair. Lotte…
I had no idea where she was. She was probably dead, or stuck in a gutter somewhere selling herself to support her child. Stottan’s child. How could he have done it? How could anyone be so cruel? At that moment I could have killed him with my bare hands and sang about it. She had been so childlike, and the brute had—I slid down against the wall and lay against the stone. My body heaving with sobs, my tears mingling with the rain. It was my fault. If only I had believed her. I crawled across the stone and over to the balcony railing. Grabbing the top I pulled myself up on it and looked down at the soggy lawn with its manicured gardens and statues and fountains. I looked down at the concrete below me, and all the anger and shame and guilt inside me joined forces and screamed at me to throw myself onto it. I deserved it. I d

Long, interesting, real, and very picturesque. On top of that, I like it!

2008-12-02 12:24:24 by I Know Everything

Besides a fountain, bird bath, or statue, are there any other garden focal points I should consider?

I'm new to gardening. Right now my backyard has a strip of pachysandra, some hostas in permanent shade, and a small bed of annuals next to the garage.

I'd like to have some object as a focal point and build a small bed around it - either next to the low fence in bright sunshine, or near the pachysandra with a dark green background of pines and maples (the backyard ends in a low wall and drops off, so you're looking at the middle of maple and pine trees).

A water feature is an excellent focal point. People who enter your yard will instinctively move toward it.

Water features don't have to be complicated or difficult to maintain. You just need an outside power source. There are solar-powered water features, but obviously they must be in a very sunny location.

Although this is not my photo, I have an urn just like this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardleger /2271511904/. Water flows from a basin underground and flows on the outside of the urn back into the basin. Very pretty sound, very pretty effect.

You can place rocks and plants in a large circle around the urn and build a path that leads to it; then put a small bench near it. People will gravitate to it and sit by it.

2008-07-05 14:47:08 by slishou