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[house_cat]

Do you know the source of the blue checkered duvet cover?

[Bonkers1]

I need the rattan dresser in my life.

[shoptilyadropagain]

My favorite is also the porch with the swing and adirondack chair.

[Nonametoday]

@Oznell 

I love every single one of them.  I have outdoor metal (which has oxidized to an aqua blue) frog, had it for many years.  I have Staffordshire dogs in my bookcase that I have had from a tag sale for a very long time.  I once had a screened porch with swings on either end, a ceiling fan on either end.  This reminded me of it so very much that the nostalgia almost overcame me, just very laid back and vintage with surround outside of short-leaf pinetrees, camelias and azaleas which were so deightful year-round.  I think the fans must have kept the mosquitoes away.  Not sure what but we never had mosquitoes with all the vegetation we had and a creek right off our property.

[AuntG]

The cool bedrooms appealed to me.

[Oznell]

Mmmm, @Nonametoday ,  romantic camellias and azaleas, that reminds me so much of New Orleans when I lived there. Am thinking that camellias can't really be grown outside of the South, or am I mistaken?

@house_cat ,  I don't know where that checked duvet came from, but it looks like the one from Quince is similar- 

"Classic Organic Percale Gingham Duvet Cover"

The blue color in that is "Blue Fog".

But you could probably find other examples by googling 'checked duvet cover'.

[Nonametoday]

@Oznell 

I don't think that camellias or azaleas can live outside the South but the azaleas have a cousin that can, and I can't recall what they are but I do remember that they are hardier than azaleas but as beautiful or even more so.  I have some camellias in my garden now but just not as well planned as those in that garden which was laid out by my mother who was an expert at that kind of thing.

[QVCisFun]

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@Oznell wrote:

Blue and purple larkspur...

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Nice vignette.  Really like the combination of all the colors in the scene combined with the aqua color (glass vases and table).

[Oznell]

@Nonametoday ,  yes, there are some azaleas that are cold-hardy, and in the north, you often see them combined in yards with people's beautiful rhododendren bushes... 

[Nonametoday]

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@Oznell wrote:

@Nonametoday ,  yes, there are some azaleas that are cold-hardy, and in the north, you often see them combined in yards with people's beautiful rhododendren bushes... 

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@Oznell 

That's it.  Rhododendren.  They are cousin to azalea and they look just like azalea but they are more winter-hardy.  Thank you, Oznell.  My brain has taken a sabbatical.