Boo, loved seeing your garden and inspiring ideas!! (by the way, better check your spelling for 'Calibrachola', unless it's a latino gang version
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Brenda, I had seen that shutter idea in a magazine somewhere and really want to eventually do one too, I like yours a lot, the vibrant blue really makes it pop!
And Susie brought up that picture of one of the best threads on DG! If I remember correctly, that gorgeous patio was submitted by a guy you was a trucker, he answered lots of questions between his stretches of travel and showed pictures of how it looked in the winter too but he eventually disappeared and that thread just took on a life of it's own, eventually going to a part 2. It still gets bumped so new ones can enjoy it too.