Things I Love

Homes with open walls
Gardens that flow into the house
Afternoon tea

Things I Love:

Harvest from the garden
Cool mornings and warm afternoons
Grilled cauliflower with lots of garlic

Come Into My Garden

 

 

 

Some color in my cutting garden

My husband designed and constructed the garden for me a year ago on Mother's Day. Now a plethora of blooms are surrounded by espaliered apple trees and grape arbors. Steps at the far end lead up to terraces with veggies, raspberries and blueberries.

Nothing Like A Good Book

He found my stash of Agatha Christie...
and a secluded spot in our cutting garden

Strawberries in the Garden

Big crop of Strawberries coming in!
... and so far no slugs or bunnies!

Kitchen Garden

 

 

We finally took down the play system last winter and put it a new kitchen/cutting garden.

Turns out the soil is pure black gold (45 years of grass clippings and leaves piled here by the previous owner) and coupled with a perfect summer, created an amazing crop: zucchinis, cucumbers, peppers both hot and bell, tomatoes, beans, peas, cantaloupe, leeks, onions, grapevines, apples, blueberries... not to mention the flowers!

A Walk in my Garden

... on a beautiful April day

Back in my garden again

A riot of color
A little haphazard perhaps
It's survival of the fittest out here.

I've ignored my garden for so long
flowers long forgotten stretch to the sunshine and nod their heads at me
'yes, I'm still here'
the weeds have taken over
but at least they're green.

Honeysuckle mingles with the surviving climbing roses and fills the evening and morning air with it's heady fragrance.

I once had 17 climbing roses and too many shrub roses to count. The blooms are perfection, the scent heavenly, filling bouquets. But black spot won out, only a handful of roses left - I refused to spray and our wet springs did them in. But those that survived fill my cup every spring.

Rosa Rubia naturally resistant to disease. The flowers are tiny, but I love this climber for its red stems, grey green leaves and large rose hips that feed birds all winter.