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Monterey Colonial garden update! Big difference!!!

May 24, 2016 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 3 Comments

Hi there!  I have had a lot of requests for more updates on the Monterey Colonial our daughter purchased a few years ago here in Montecito! The previous posts are at the end of this post! She removed some shrubbery crowding this beautiful …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Gardens, Landscapes, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: Anduze pot, boxwood, gardens, Joseph Plunkett, Montecito, Monterey Colonial

A blogpost from Brooke at Velvet and Linen about me!

July 15, 2015 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 5 Comments

This was a post a few years ago by Brooke Giannetti at Velvet and linen! an evening with penelope bianchi and lars bolander... Having never attended school for interior design, I've always wished that I had a mentor. There have been a few …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Friends, Gardens Tagged With: Anduze pot, animals, antiques, bantam chickens, Brooke Giannetti, decorating, garden, habitat, House Beautiful, Lars Bolander, patina, pond, Velvet and Linen

Garden update on the Monterey Colonial in Montecito!

May 4, 2015 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 12 Comments

The gardens have  been worked on extensively for the past few  months! Huge improvements!!! Not too much has changed in the front; Things are starting to bloom! The real changes are on the side.... what was a shady mess where nothing much …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Gardens, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: Anduze pot, before and after, garden, Joseph Plunkett, landscape, Monterey Colonial, pool, restored, terrace

The Olive Allée!!!

June 10, 2013 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 54 Comments

Definition: (from  Wikipedia) "Allée is traditionally a walkway  with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side , which is used, as its French source venir ("to come") indicates; to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a  "focal …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Landscapes, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: allees, Anduze pot, Bianchi, cypress, focal point, Grace Design, Margy Grace, Montecito, Oak allee, olive allee, on axis in the garden, South of France, Southern plantation, symmetry

Spring is Springing in Santa Barbara!

April 15, 2012 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 28 Comments

I posted the very beginning of Spring a while ago.  Some people say we have no "seasons" in Southern California!" Yes we do!!  Spring is in full swing!! DO WE HAVE SPRING??? YES!!!!! We have a handsome new deer trophy!  (wrought iron)  in a …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Gardens, Home, Landscapes Tagged With: Anduze pot, arbor, baby chicks, bantam chickens, Boston ivy, cat fur in the bushes for helping birds make nests, dovecote, duck house, ducks, faux bois bench, focal point, fragrant roses, gravel, Janus et Cie, old roses, olive allee, Penelope Bianchi, Provence, Rose Story Farm, roses, Santa Barbara, slipcovers, spring, Spring in Santa Barbara, spring slipcovers, trophy deer, trophy deer heads, vines in trees, wisteria, wrought iron deer head

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