Garden Chair Building - Inspiration and Dreaming for Our Backyard
Photo of a pair of Wave Hill Garden Chairs from Wave Hill's official site here . This is not my photo above. Back earlier this year - after a trip to Paris with Nat - I went on and on and on about our visit(s) to Luxembourg Gardens. It was really the highlight of our trip together. I posted about how they were (as the French do!) using cocoa bean hull mulch , their tree boxes , growing vines between mature trees , their special metal path edging , how t hey have enormous stands of Chestnut trees that they prune in a special way , and their pretty spectacular espalier garden . And...in addition to swooning over all of those items, I posted about the chairs at the gardens . Those chairs. Really quite special. There are a couple of worthwhile 'histories of the Luxembourg Garden Chairs' posts on the web, but this one from Fermob - the distributor of the chairs - is the one I'd spend my time on. It is interesting to me to think about how a garden like Luxemb