Color in the Garden

Hello everyone,

     I hope you all had a lovely weekend. We enjoyed a sunny warm Mother's Day here with lots of food and all of our family. It was warm enough to eat out on veranda-I love to eat outdoors whenever possible.

The garden is starting to fill in and the leaves are coming out on the trees and shrubs.

Hyacinths are scenting the air.

The bleeding hearts are blooming.

The snakehead- fritillaria meleagris are blooming and slowly spreading in the garden.

The hostas are putting up their fresh green and cream leaves.

Ice follies daffodils blooming around the old wheelbarrow.

Dainty little narcissus-not sure of their name.

Our tulips are starting to bloom-now I am wishing I had planted a lot more as not all the old ones returned.

These Red Riding Hood tulips have returned faithfully year after year. I hope I can get more of these for the fall planting.

The hillside garden is awash with the beauty of many different varieties of daffodils.

Well,that is what is happening in our garden so far. Tomorrow is going to be a hotter day so things can change pretty quickly in the garden. However, the benefit of a long cool spring is the flowers stay in bloom longer and have a more intense color.

How is your garden doing? I know many of you are way ahead of us here as we are just getting started in our garden season.

Today,I am joining the house in the roses for Show off your Cottage Monday.

I hope you enjoy your day!

Carolyn

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

Tomorrow is a special day here as we celebrate motherhood so I wanted to pop in and wish you all Happy Mother's Day.

This is a beautiful little book celebrating the joys of motherhood-it is full of lovely quotes and poems.

I hope you will enjoy your day.

The mother and baby ornament by Global is a treasured gift from my husband celebrating the birth of one of our children.

I love mother and baby pictures and the one above is one I especially love of our youngest daughter and her daughter Lila (a few years ago).

Where did the time go??? This is a picture of me with our seventh child when he was a wee one-I miss those days!!!

Mother's Day is one of my favorite days of the year- as my children " rise up and call me blessed" - right kiddos???

I am looking forward to a family brunch at our house tomorrow and it is supposed to be warm and sunny-yeah!

Laurie at Heaven's Walk wrote the most beautiful touching story on her blog and I know you will enjoy taking a few minutes to check it out. Laurie has a real gift with words and her whole blog is beautiful!

Happy Mother's Day!

Carolyn

A Garden Vignette

Hello everyone,

       I have been a bit scarce lately as there is so much going on right now. Hopefully,I will soon have lots to share for you gardener's anyway as the garden starts to fill in more and the lilacs etc. begin to bloom. We got some much needed rain the last couple of days so we took a trip to some garden centers to have a look at some new plants. I found this cute little boot at Cool Breeze in Summerside and had to take it home with me.

I planted it up and put it in our sun room for now.

It is a great spot to enjoy getting some new ideas from my garden books.

A cup of tea makes it even more enjoyable.

Take a break , sit and enjoy for a spell too!

I am joining Bernideens Tea Time Blog for Tea in the Garden and also French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday.

Thank you for visiting,

Carolyn

Happy Sunday

Hello everyone,

   I hope you are enjoying your weekend. I finally took some time to take some pictures for you.I like the little garden vignette above but it is still early in our garden for getting good shots but each day we move forward a little bit. We seem to be having a drier spring with more sunshine but the temperature has been cold at night. Now, that the full moon is past I am hoping it warms up a little.

On Friday evening we drove by these lovely barrels full of colorful tulips so I had to get out and take a few pictures of them.

I love these vibrant colored tulips for the spring garden but the rest of the season I am not so much an orange fan.

On another street downtown a small front yard garden was covered with blooming spring bulbs. They must have their garden well layered because it has good color most of the season which is harder to do in a small space.

I spent some time playing with my dishes again.

A pretty bouquet from our garden-I am happy to have some tulips blooming now along with the thousands of daffodils.

I was lazy this morning and enjoyed looking through some old Victoria magazines before church and didn't go for my walk so I am off to do that now before my brother and sister in law come for a visit.

Thank you for stopping in to visit!

Take care,
Carolyn

Early Spring Garden

Hello everyone,

      I hope you are having a good week. We are spending a lot of time in the garden getting it ready for our first tour from Japan in a couple of weeks. I took some photos in the garden today so you can see what is blooming now. It is coming along and a couple of weeks will make a big difference,I hope.

It is lovely to have lots of daffodils for cheery bouquets in the house.

I love to eat outdoors as soon as the weather warms up.

Pansies blooming in a pretty bowl.

I love these white and apricot daffodils.

A pretty spring teapot.

Just a few shots of our early spring garden.

I have to admit all this gardening makes me look forward to a good hot soak and early to bed!

I am joining My Romantic Home for Show and Tell today and The Rose Garden in Malevik for Show Off Saturday.

Thank you for visiting,

Carolyn