French House Number Plaques – Serie 1
- The hydrangeas seen on this rustic enamel house number plaque welcomes you to the frontyard a lovely French cottage with gorgeous hydrangeas. Nice idea to match your house number plaque with your landscaping or the flower emblem of your region or state.
French House Number Plaques – Photo 1
- A simple number on a blue picket fence…
French House Number Plaques – Photo 1
- A tiled house number plaque cut thru so you can see the house wall behind. The house facade becomes part of the plaque.
French House Number Plaques – Photo 3
- A nicely shaped forged house number plaque with a painted seagall. This is a regional touch to reflect the many seagalsl of the Atlantic coastline village where this picture was taken.
French House Number Plaques – Photo 4
From the Art of the Home French Decoration Files: French House Number Plaques
Love the Hydrangeas, where can these plaques be purchased?
I felt the same way, Margaret, as I grow the Hydrangea in the shade border near my front door. It was bought as a memory of my mother. I had to fuss with it for the last eight years because of an accidental event on a local farm where I lived for five years. I had put the hydrangea at that time quite young where it could get the most hours of sunlight to help it grow sturdy. Between the corner of the wide garage door and the narrow side door it had the full sweep of the sun motion for about eight hours; also there was a pump handle on the inside of the garage right behind it where I filled my watering cans.
Alas, one day the water pipe that ran from the mountain and under the pastures and lawns to our household broke down and had to have a section replaced, The hydrangea had to be removed for awhile when the pump and the pipe on our end of the route had to be checked before everything was filled in again underground. When the landlord did this, he filled in the soil with extra sand and some lime to keep the site pliable; and, without thinking about it,when I put the hydrangea back in place: it turned pink. I learned however that aluminum sulfate would return its color; so, when I moved to another neighborhood of row houses,I began the project of gradually adding the aluminum sulfate to see what would happen, It was a gradual process of the flowers becoming rosy and then blue but having to deepen from baby blue to a deep dark end result, checking each year for results and not adding too much alterent that would change the chemistry of the surrounding plants as well, This season, I finally achieved it. You see, the total effect is from blue flowers like Siberian bugloss, and white flowering muguet du bois beneath rhododendron and bleeding hearts and a red lily on their way to the hydrangea in blue for a red white and blue presentation by the time that we get to Bastille Day. There is another blue specimen from the native plants that I bring home each year on Mothers Day from the Brandywine Conservancy after they thin the plants in the natural landscape around what is also know as the Wyatt family museum housing the paintings of three generations of the Swiss-American family.
Ps. I used to have a place in the country for ten years that had everything from the lifetime of another plant collector who owned a fruit orchard. There hydrangeas grew in a row in the shade on low ground that flooded in Spring out beyond the barn. I never went out there to pick them or take care of them for fear of snakes in the low overly wet conditions. This proved to be a correct intuition on my part when one day the leader of our barn cats left us a present on the door mat outside the kitchen door to the wash porch. Dead but ugly.
Margaret, they can be custom-made in France and I wish I could tell you where to find them in the US but I don’t know. We will be looking into it and we will certainly let you know if we find something out. Thank you for your feedback!
Great story Dianne, your hydrangeas must be “magnifique”. Thank you for sharing!