Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Arched entry...
These doors are gorgeous and the green garden is not too bad either.
What a whimsical beautiful entryway.
image via pinterest
Early Spring
There’s a light rain outdoors as I stepped out with the cats
to see what is going on in the garden.
I noticed our two, very large rosemary bushes at the front were filled with blooms. These are the first since the extreme pruning I gave them last year.
The Hellebores are filling up with their shy, but gorgeous blossoms.
One by one, the daffodils are bringing drops of sunshine here and there in our garden.
Still blooming, the fragrant, star-like Narcissus are shining brightly.
With our unseasonable warm weather, I have early chores to do – weeding! But, it gets me closer to the ground, closer to the soil and to the budding flowers that I so look forward to each year.
Oh, how marvelous it is to share in the beauty God creates –
for his glory and for our appreciation.
I am sharing this brief garden update with these Delightsome blog parties:
Simple beauty in the South of France- photography
This home is so absolutely dreamy! I was so excited to find Living Agency as they seem to be the source of some of my all time favorite images!
What an amazing talent and a wonderful life to lead!
all images via Living Agency
Cottage Notes
Garden Dreaming
Our garden isn’t quite asleep this winter, with early blooming Narcissus, remnants of roses and sages here and there.
All the while, I have been dreaming and planning for the upcoming seasons.
I can dream walk through my garden and imagine the blossoms of spring and of summer, my memory filled with their beauty and fragrance.
I have been filling my imagination with ideas of ways to preserve their beauty and their fragrance. I have few places in my home with sufficient sunlight to carry off bringing too many plants indoors to prolong the sense of spring and of summer.
The light of the sun’s long, southern rays only stretch through a few rooms. I know this is a pursuit of gardening Kindred Spirits. I found that Tovah Martin too has experimented with bringing flowering, fragrant plants indoors in the wintertime. Tovah’s winters are longer than mine, so she is able to seek this pursuit early with amazing results.
“Fragrant flowers are rarely large, showy or brightly colored. After all, a flower’s main purpose is to attract pollinators. And with fragrance as a ploy, other advertisements become superfluous”.
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If not, I hope if set a spark of ideas to your imagination – perhaps you’ll stop by a store or nursery to pick up a hyacinth, a tea olive, a fragrant geranium to set by a windowsill so that you might brush by it to be transported in your heart and mind to warmer places and times.
I appreciate you stopping by, I will be sharing this post with these Delightsome blog parties:
Wishing you a Delightsome, fragrant week,
Cottage Time
For The Birds
Hurt no living thing, Ladybird nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerfully…’
Christina Rosetti
First thing in the Winter mornings, I can hear the chatter of the birds as they forage for their breakfast.
Several varieties visit my garden through the winter - Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Chickadee, Mourning Dove, Cardinal, Blue Jay, House Finch, American Goldfinch, White-breasted Nuthatch, Downy Woodpecker and Dark-eyed Junco.
The birds have spent the night expending their energy to keep warm through the cold nights and they need a little extra help finding food in the winters.
This is why I let a lot of my plants go to seed; I allow the berry bushes to retain their berries and I let the crabapple tree keep its apples. They seem to be a favorite of the Blue Jays and the Cardinals.
Along with the birdseed, I like the kind that are primarily the black sunflower seed and dried fruits, that I add to the garden’s offerings, I like to make homemade suet feeders.
I also like to place around my garden sliced oranges or apples coated with seed. These give the birds extra energy.
Clean water and keeping the bird feeder area cleaned and swept is good for the birds and also for my garden.
I count it a privilege to share my garden with God’s precious creatures. God has so graciously provided us with beauty and wonderful music through these birds, I feel it is an honor to work along side to care for them.
I hope you also enjoy the birds as much as I as well as give them aid during these cold winter months.
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Wishing you a very Delightsome week,
images taken from Pinterest
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