On vacation last week at the shore in Rhode Island,
we drove up the driveway to find some nice
garden beds surrounding the rental house.
The pool house or casita as Barry explained
was originally just a bathroom, shower and laundry.
It was expanded with a living area, full kitchen,
a bedroom, a patio and an outdoor shower.
The garden bed near the casita's front door
had an old-fashioned mixture of dark-purple-leaved
Ninebark, Asiatic lilies (not blooming), daylilies,
hardy geraniums, pink Spirea--and a resident frog.
A stone path led under the first arbor
covered with Wisteria. Barry said he
had recently trimmed it back after
it bloomed prolifically
in long, cascading blooms.
It still sent out long tendrils
we could watch grow each day from
the kitchen table inside the big house.
A second arbor led to the path around
the side of the house in the shade
dappled with sunlight as seen
on this lime green Heuchera.
Another turn in the path led under
a third arbor and into a
small lawn full of sunlight.
An old rock wall
defined a deep drop-off.
Pines and two old trees framed
the view of Ninigret Salt Pond and
the Atlantic Ocean a mile away.
A perfect place to play after the beach!
