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Veranda’s First Ever Outdoor Living Award For The Montecito Garden Restoration Project

March 30, 2020 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 4 Comments

Exciting news!  The new issue of Veranda March-April has the 2020 Outdoor Living awards.  The first time ever!  And our garden was selected to be one of the eight awardees!!!  The talented garden designer who originally designed our landscape came …

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Filed Under: Article, Design, Garden Design, Gardens, Montecito Gardens, Press Tagged With: animals, baby chicks, bantam chickens, birds, chickens, duck house, duckhouse, ducklings, ducks, floating duck house, garden, gardens, habitat, Montecito

My definition of “luxury”!

September 25, 2017 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 15 Comments

luxury My friend who writes the blog "Splenderosa" asked us to write about our "definition of luxury"! Here is …

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Filed Under: Article, Blog, Design, Family, Friends, Gardens, Landscapes Tagged With: "grandparents day"', "my mommies wedding", animals, azalea, Balinese chicken coop, blogs, Brooke Giannetti, cats, chickens, chicks, creative friends, decorating, dogs, duckhouse, ducklings, ducks, family, friends, garden, grandchildren, habitat for quail, James Andrew, luxury, mentor, Nathan Turner, National Wildlife Federation backyard habitat, patina, pond, quail, Radisha, Splenderosa, Steve Giannetti, vacant lot, Velvet and Linen, you tube

The inspiration for our French chickens!!

September 13, 2017 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 5 Comments

Our granddaughter feeding the chickens! About eighteen years ago;  my husband Adam and I went on a trip to France. I had read a lovely review of a new hotel opened in Burgundy that sounded wonderful. The name was” Chateau Vault de Lugny”.  The …

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Filed Under: Blog, Landscapes, Travels Tagged With: baby chicks, bantam mille fleur chickens, Chateau Vault de Lugny, chickens in a taxi, French chickens, garden, geese, grandaughter feeding chickens, peacocks, predator-proof coop, roosters, turkey

The Garden Sphinx

August 15, 2017 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 9 Comments

This is an updated version of a post from 2011! Our house was briefly on the market then.  Then we took it off!  So glad it didn't sell!     I have always been a lover of gardens, especially the wild ones!  I love statues, birdbaths, …

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Filed Under: Blog, Gardens, Landscapes Tagged With: animals, antique terra cotta, decorating, entrance, garden, garden statues, gardens, history, Madame DuBarry

French Country Style

May 29, 2016 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 26 Comments

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, French Country Magazine, Gardens, Home Tagged With: antique bathtub, antique linens, antique table runner, antique textiles, antiques, French Country Style, garden, gift from Oprah, lime wash, magazine/book, natural pigments, neighbor of Oprah, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, patina, pigments from Roussillon

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

Quick duckling progress story!!! First ducklings of the Spring!

May 25, 2013 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 24 Comments

   This picture is right after they hatched!!     April 13,2013  And this is today!! May 25,2013 All 11 ducklings have survived;  in 10 more days they will be able to fly!! They are a little hard to distinguish from …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Gardens, Home, Landscapes, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: attracting wildlife, baby ducklings, duck houses, ducklings, floating duck houses, garden, nest boxes for ducks, new blogs about this, pond, protection from predators for ducklings, saving bably ducklings, spring, whe=hen I was little., wildlife pond

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