A New Giveaway and What I've Planted So Far

The winner of the vintage amber fairy lights is: William Bezek! Send me your info and I will ship them right out to you. This weeks giveaway is for another pair of vintage brass candlesticks. To enter, leave a comment on this post and if you are not already a follower, sign on to follow. The winner will be announced next Saturday and a new giveaway will be posted.


I've set up the English village in the new moss garden. Click for a better view.


Pansies in a face planter.


Pansies in the twelve apostles planter.


Pansies in the Lady From The Sea planter.


The Irish cottages are back in place by the raised planters.


I want to live in a cottage like this.


This one would work for me too. I can smell peat burning when I look at these.


I had a maple that was giving too much shade in this area and sadly had to cut it down. I haven't decided what to do to replace it so for now I stuck some cement mushrooms in the ground and planted Phlox to eventually cascade over the edge.


I planted Columbines in this planter along with a fern.


The Wisteria is blooming and it smells glorious!


I have it growing in several places throughout the gardens.


Here it is on the pergola back by the pool.


I am sure everyone is sick of Phlox pics but here is another one. Soon the blooms will be gone and I will be left with a prickly cascade of green.


This is another shot of the newly planted white Phlox. You can see it just below the mushrooms. Next year the white should be cascading over the edge of the stone.



Here are the radishes which are now decorated with a toad and some mushrooms. I can't wait for breakfast radishes.

I am anxious to plant so much more but it is still too early here. Though we have been having daytime temperatures in the upper 70's and even some 80's, this morning it is barely 40 degrees. Too cold for fragile annuals. I am going to plant lettuces today though.