Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 April 2013

Spring For A Day

I swear that when I went into the garden yesterday morning some of my herbaceous plants in pots
were just about pocking through the soil.
With a little watering and sunshine 
 when I went back to look at them later in the afternoon they had grown 
an inch !!!


How good does a little sunshine on your head feel.
It seems to have been such a long winter.


I put out my garden chairs.
Had to throw a couple of my favourite
Cabbages & Roses Hatley Cushions
on the chairs, just checking that they go together well !
Then sat with a cup of tea
and just mulled over
in my mind all the plants I plan
to buy.
As I am sure I have lost quite a few again this winter.


Well just a very quick post today.
Finger's and toe's crossed we may have some
very exciting news next week.


Cannot say what, but here is a little clue.


Bye for now.
Have a good weekend.
C
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Friday, 15 March 2013

GARDENALIA INSPIRATIONS


 Thursday this week was a gorgeous bright sunny day.
It was so good to get out and in the garden for a good
tidying up.
The image below is from a lovely book of 
Gardenalia.
By Country Living.



This is another one of my picture books.
Great to pick up from the coffee table and get enthused a little.
Old garden tools are special.
Very old ones too valuable to use.
But great for displaying and adding interest.



I am not really  formal gardener.
I like random, messy maybe, eclectic style.


Even though I have my nice set of garden furniture,
it is little collections of odd bits that interest me most.


And bunting, oh yes, nothing like a bit of bunting to
add cheer to a garden tea party.


Back entrances, that sounds a bit odd ! ? anyway
with big pots and tables with 
little pots.
I love.


I like a little order sometimes, like this neat  row of
containers, full of perennials.


An old staircase has come in handy
for rows of Hyacinths.
Pink is not a favourite of mine.
But they look and probably smell divine.
Pink and yellow makes me feel weird.
Do they go together ?
Not for me.


This table looks interesting.
Looks like it is made up from odd pieces of wood.


I love my trees.
I always plant trees when I move into a new home.
I would much rather sit under a tree with a gentle breeze,
and enjoy my lunch or afternoon tea,
better than sitting under a hot parasol.
Do you find they make you hot ?
Must be to do with the colour.


Now I really do love this image.
The colours are light and fresh.


Now this old London Stock brick wall is 
lovely.
I would love a walled garden in these bricks but it would 
cost a fortune.
The hot pink Geranium is pretty in its hanging pot.
I do have a few benches that I have collected over
the years, old and rusty they may be, but I still dot them around my own garden.
Old cushions beckon for us to
have a little sit and ponder on
all the things we ought to be doing.


This is the lovely book that I have featured
in this post.


I wonder if you are getting in the mood for spot of gardening yet.
Or have you been hard at it already?
Lets hope that we get a good summer this year.
We really should do as we have had a hard winter.
Bye for now.
C
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Tuesday, 26 June 2012

The Garden

I have been sweeping my garden, something I do enjoy funnily enough!


This garden was bare when we moved in.
Over the years, with no plans at all.
I have created a garden of little gardens.


Little fences to keep the dog's off the lawn.
And pagoda's to hide large expanses of patio
have become shaded garden's for my pot plants.


The climbing plants over the Pagoda
have made little window's.
Another place to hide, to sit and look and listen to 
the bird's.


I have little table's and chair's dotted around the garden.


All provide a different aspect of the garden.



And the little bird house's my husband made a few 
year's ago now...are still there.
The paint has endured some tough winter's
but they still look good.
The never did make it up onto the wall!


All the rain has made the garden so green and lush.
Probably the best it has ever been.
And morning's like today are
wonderful.
Our Sun has been missed.
I hope that Indian Summer
comes to stay.
Bye for now...
Love
C
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