Is Your Kitchen Island a Proscenium?

With a client yesterday, below, huge vase of fresh peonies.

More amazing, not florist peonies.  Grown/cut from a local garden.  Atlanta !
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At a memorial gathering several of the tables had the same vases of peonies.  All from the same garden.
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Secret to these Southern grown peonies?  Shallow planting.
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Peonies need cold winters.
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In this house with children, dogs & life the kitchen retained this still life, above, without styling.
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Exactly what good design does.
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Living life beautifully, amongst 'real' life.
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Garden & Be Well,     XO Tara
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Wendy Posard: Kitchen + Garden

When the garden is a feature of the kitchen I know the architect has gone beyond their education.  And delved into the realm of intuitive.

Flooring flows inside/outside and the scale is charming vs. large.  Other comparisons: happy vs. large, nurturing vs. large.......
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Necessity vs. luxury.
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"I can live without the necessities but I must have the luxuries.", a quote I first heard age 8, repeated by Miss Katherine Scott, a grand influence.
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Garden & Be Well,       XO Tara
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Pic is a Wendy Posard project.