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Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Monday, May 21, 2012

My rustic garden

HaPpY MoNdAy all!  I thought I would start the week off with a pretty blog about my new garden spot.  I found this georgouse little bench seat on ebay for a very, very cheap price...and I won! yay!


Isnt it just toooo cute??? It has such a rustic, homely, french farmhouse feel to it.

I had the perferfect spot for it outside my dining room window. I still need to tidy up around this are and I also want hubby to build a wooden screen to hide his 'beer fridge', not exactly somthing i want on display next to my pretty garden.
I had a ton of old terracotta pots and an old cast iron pot dug half way under dirt in the back yard where 'polly' our little chicky used to be.
Here is the result...






Below is One of my most favorite flowers EVER...daisies! Forever timeless and so homely.


an old tin with herbs, with my basil behind...

Little T and miss Mimi helped me, of course to plant.  They even wanted their own little plants that they grew from seed.  The first one is little T's {I just love that he's written 'daisy on his chalky part}...


...and the 2nd is miss Mimi's...
I'll update in a few weeks how they are growing.


 Below, my thriving mint.  It smells devine!


This is the old cast iron pot, growing my Italian parsley...cute huh?


Simply theraputic!  To see flowers and green outside my window with the sun dancing through the leaves gives me a huge smile everyday!


Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature. ~Kelly Sheaffer






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Friday, October 7, 2011

homegrown-homemade pumpkin soup


Look what I grew!  Ok, I know...anyone can grow a pumpkin but...look at it!  Its huge!
I was so excited to bring this inside and chop it up for some healthy, hearty homey soup.

Just look at how orange and fleshy this thing is.

I chopped that thing up ( there was soooo much it took about half an hour to chop, lol), popped it in the pot with some onion, garlic, ginger, mixed herbs, some salt reduced vegetable stock and a  potato....simmered it for an hour, blended it up and....

....homegrown, homemade pumpkin soup!  It was the yummiest soup EVER!!!!, Realy it was.  With some home baked bread, and a dollop of basil pesto...it was devine.


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