Plant Pots in the Garden

Sometimes we want to have a clean garden. It means, we have garden with some stones, however we still want to have plants in the garden. We avoid the soil that will make the stone garden dirty. 

Some plant pots ideas

We can use some pots to put plants there. This is common in Indonesia. The plants we use here usually plants that need not the water much or minimum care.  


Here we can see some bonsai trees and a pot of succulent. They don't need so much water daily. Thus, the rest of water or soil don't make the stone dirty. 

French Affair - in style of furniture

Roset is a brand of furniture maker from France that at first produced walking sticks and umbrellas. That was in 1880.

Today, Ligne Roset is an international name for contemporary furniture. We can see that the furniture is adventurous, adaptable, innovative, modern, affordable and above all, comfortable.

one of the furniture

Each piece follows the company dictum: " anew design must be ergonomically correct, practical to make and use, at a price that is affordable."

It is possible to company to fulfill this by being forward thinking in its design and manufacture. Today Roset commissions leading edge European designers to create exclusive designs and then uses CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture) to the hilt.

Now, Roset is becoming well-established in many countries. The stores are open in Zurich, Beirut, Prague, Chicago, Moscow, Sydney and Melbourne.

Its introduction in Sydney and Melbourne is in conjunction with already well-known French furniture company, Grange. 

Quatre Saisons

Quatre Saisons is one of the largest private gardens in Western Australia open to public, Quatre Saisons or Four Seasons was named after a heritage rose with a lineage dating back to the 13th century and ancestor of many of today's roses.

This amazing garden presented by a Perth rose gardener, Donna Brown. She presents her rare and heritage varieties to the world starting five years ago with charity days and proving so popular it is now on display for two seasons a year.

Some of rose collection of Quatre Saisons

She gardens on a hectare of the four-hectare property. She is concentrating on rare and heritage roses and intensively underplanting them with annuals and perennials. The location is at Glen Forrest, 35 km from Perth. Now, the roses at Quatre Saisons are more than thousand and the numbers are creeping up.

Donna trained in fine arts, painted large colorful oils. So she is always experimenting with color schemes and each year sees a new parade of annuals following her latest ideas. She does mainly botanical works, including illustrating the National Heritage Rose Journal.

The climate there is perfect for roses but the soil is "terrible". Donna built up garden beds so she could fill them with exactly the soil she needs and keeps up heavy mulching.

Quatre Saisons is open October 1 to December 24, 10am - 5pm, Sunday and Monday, Thursday and Friday, and open again in autumn. Peak viewing time is late October and early November. 

Dark Colors for interior

Denim, navy, purple and charcoal are all ‘saturated’ shades, that is, colors which have been darkened by the addition of back or grey. At the deepest end of the scale, the colors become practically black themselves.

When the amount of added black is reduced, the color range brightens. Navy is transformed into royal blue, purple lightens to violet or mauve, while charcoal pales to mist grey or silver.

Grey is a current favorite and its popularity has ensured that a variety of shades is available from mist to charcoal grey, which is a strong favorite for carpets and furnishings. 

In theory, grey is the only true neutral as it contains only black and white, but in decorating you’ll find shades which have definite tinge of pink, green, blue or beige. Grey works well with yellow and red, but for a subtler look team it with honey or blue, or opt for a sophisticated scheme of grey, buttermilk and beige.

Dark blue has been a popular color for decorating ever since the ancient Britons covered themselves in woad. Modern Britons are equally attached to dark blues in their wardrobes. Denim blue is a color for work-wear that’s found the world over, thanks to the hardy indigo plant.

Though navy and related shades have always been popular for clothes, they are rarely used in the home, almost exclusively restricted to the front door. Yet navy and royal blues contrast beautifully with peach, they look smart with beige and honey, and with red they’re absolutely unbeatable.

Purple is a demanding color that’s either in or out of vogue – the last time it was popular in home decoration was the early Seventies when a purple carpet was the last word. If the use of dark blue in the home is limited, purple is even more elusive.

Full strength it can certainly be overpowering, but don’t overlook the appeal of violet-blue and lilac. As purple is made from equal parts of red and blue, the colors derived from it veer towards one or the other so color matching can be difficult.

If a room scheme includes a fabric which mingles violet with mauve, then both of those shades can be used. A plain lilac, however, is best combined with contrasting colors like primrose and green or a more closely related color such as pink, or even just white; matching tones of the same color is much trickier. 

Decorating Dark room

Artificial light is especially important in dark rooms. Choose fittings which cast pools of light to illuminate specific areas because general lighting will only make the room seem gloomy. Consider using lights with tungsten halogen lamps which cast a dramatically bright light.

In most dark rooms it’s usual to try increase the amount of light by using pale colors to reflect it, you might, consider using dark colors to create atmosphere in rooms more frequently lit by artificial light, like the dining room and bedroom.

Don’t overlook the potential of dark shades for paintwork in place of white or pastels; reversing the normal arrangement of deep walls and light paintwork gives an impact that’s especially suited to modern settings. 

Capitalize on a room that is naturally gloomy and go for a dark, dramatic décor. But don’t forget that somber colors absorb the light, so it’s best to reserve these schemes for rooms you relax in rather than those where good illumination is required for reading or work.

Don’t interrupt a dark wall with contrasting doors or moldings. Paint them to match the color of the wall and keep to shades of equal depth for carpets, flooring and fitted furniture to create an impression of space.

Pink fits to warm the room

Pink has a welcoming warmth in the home and it’s not a demanding shade like the red though it’s related.

Pink is more usually associated with feminine color schemes but its potential is too great to restrict to the boudoii. Pink is not just for bedrooms and bathrooms.

Its use is more general than you may realize: pink makes an appearance in magnolia (the second most popular paint shade after white), in fawn, and in some shades of peach and apricot.

Let it come out of the closet and into the hall, the living room or the kitchen – pink is too versatile a color to be shut away upstairs.

The natural contrast to pink is green and not blue (although it does have a close affinity to green; the two are ideal companions in many color schemes. We can see in the lawn, the pink flowers with green leaves.

Other popular partners of pink are lilac, yellow, and the neutrals brown and grey. As pinks vary from those with a blue tinge to those with yellow, it’s important to choose co-ordinates which have a similar emphasis unless you have an expert eye for color.   

Decorating with pink

Rose has several names, according to its level of darkness, like baby’s breath, clover or blush, candyfloss, cerise or raspberry. It may also be peach (rose-peach), brown (rose-beige) or cream (magnolia). 

The benefit for us, a pink can suit every style of décor and taste. Because there‘s always a pink that’s right for every room: 

Rose peach warms up a chilly living room, rose-beige looks distinctive in the hall, and cranberry makes a dramatic dining room. 

A bright pink surprisingly successful  in the kitchen because it can offset the formality of wood or laminate units. And  the palest like blossom pink are the classic choice for the bedrooms.

There’s a wealth of paler tones to choose from – perfect backgrounds to sett off furnishings, fabrics and other details in the deeper pinks.

If shocking pink ceilings or carnation walls are not for you, choose a subtle shade of pink with a touch of beige for maximum versatility in living rooms and halls.

Pick up the pink in furnishing such as bedlinen, curtains, cushions and rugs.

Reserve shocking pink and cerise for accessories, or use them to create impact in rooms like the cloakroom where you don’t linger for long.