Well, let me start at where this idea began. I was thinking about my hosta garden. Garden of The White Dove.....what else could it be?

And I ran across mention in Architectural Digest about sketches of clothing worn by Audrey Hepburn back when she played Holly GoLightly in the Truman Capote story BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S.,,,,but, the link would not open in AD online, so I googled Giverny book Hepburn. Because I got mixed up, Givenchy and Giverny, you know how it is being a gardener....sounds good to me. Only the article title is LUNCH AT GIVERNY.

And that is when I saw the PBS series she did--Gardens of The World--and I remembered watching some of them. That is not the point of this story though.

Audrey Hepburn did that whole series and Giverny was one of the gardens. Wonderful! Claude Monet's garden there has many times been inspirational, and I'd like to revisit that TV series.

But that is still not the point of the story.....which is....

This blogger went into a thrift store (why do some people get all the luck, and all the fun of finding such things)....
and found a DIORAMA of the garden at Giverny according to the program done by Hepburn. Perfect match.

I looked at that diorama as pictured in the link I'm going to give you. It was a three dimensional drawing come to life. What a great idea.....

And this is when I realized I want to create a DIORAMA, model it using my garden photos, and bring it to life as a three dimensional ...... game board? doll house? no. I guess MODEL is the correct word.

My very own Diorama of Garden of The White Dove.

Then I can have as many visitors to my Garden as wish to come. Distance no object.

You know, I picture Dougald spending his winter indoors way up there in cold country.....and a similar diorama might be just the ticket. We already know he has a railroad running through his garden. Now a MODEL garden with a MODEL railroad.

Jonny has to include the ravine in his. Ken, oh my, will we get to see that garden? And Don Rawson with lots of curbing on all his beds. We'd get to see McTavish and AlmostHooked top the whole mountain with hosta in BC.

A diorama of every personal garden? It would be 100% better than Google Street View but that would be another idea to explore. I mean, why not have that 3d aspect to gardens and public monuments as well. I get dizzy thinking about it.....oh my, the POSSIBILITIES.

.....and now I must go peacefully to dinner. I'm having a sugar low I think.

What kind of diorama do you envision?

Edited for grammar....sigh.....I feel better now after a good NE baked beans and dogs Saturday night dinner.

Here is a link that might be useful: Lunch At Giverny

This post was edited by moccasinlanding on Sat, Sep 27, 14 at 21:39