Beautiful A Bench To Light Your Garden

If you have a beautiful garden, you can buy this wonderful LED bank to illuminate everything at night. It will light not as bright as the sun but will give your garden mysterious look. If you don’t have a garden you needn’t worry because this bank can adapt to any surroundings. You can put it at home and invite guests to enjoy these wonderful colors. You can change the colors or speed of changing according to your mood. The air is not getting warmer so you can use it without worrying about changes of temperature.

Beautiful Tropical Retreat in Lush Gardens

The Sarojin is a secluded boutique resort which provides elegant and luxurious accommodations, an award-winning spa, and gourmet cuisine in lush southern Thailand. The resort is charmingly ensconced in 10 acres of spacious and lush tropical gardens, with a salt-water estuary that lies within the grounds and a gentle fresh water streams trickle through the gardens. Upon arrival, you will immediately feel at peace, as though everything has suddenly fallen into place. The 55 spacious, contemporary guest residences are all designed in harmony with the environment, with sundecks, couples’ baths, plunge pools, and relaxation pools. All have private garden terrace entrances and private access to a calm, secluded white beach facing the Andaman Sea.

Dine alongside the Sarojin’s ancient Ficus tree, considered the spiritual heart of this Thai resort, and watch the sun reflect off the lotus pond. For a truly exceptional culinary experience, have a private dinner on the beach or alongside a candlelit waterfall. Meditate and reflect at the Pathways spa, known for its ancient therapies and modern amenities. If you are seeking greater adventure, the Sarojin is surrounded by southern Thailand’s national parks, where you can take a canoe safari, elephant trek, or view some of the world’s oldest primary forest.

Amazing Hanging Garden in Glass Bubbles

The new indoor gardening collection by Shane Powers for West Elm is just the inspiration you need. Hanging garden by using suspended clear glass planters allow you to create a high-style, low-maintenance indoor garden almost anywhere. Fill these with air plants, succulents or moss to create your own small spheres of earthy influence. A round, hand-blown glass orb with a wide opening allows you to grow succulents and ferns in the shallow planting space.

Residential Garden Design in San Francisco

This is a beautiful garden design and cool. One way to enhance the beauty of the home is to attend a garden in our yard. Houses become barren and gives the impression of calm. Especially when summer comes. For this reason Lutsko Associates made a garden in an urban housing in San Francisco.

The concept of this project is an open architecture for daily life, maximizing the impact and experience

Playing in the Dirt

We are wrapping up a non-stop, totally exhausting weekend right now.  A cookout, a garage sale, a Cinco de Mayo impromptu cocktail gathering, a birthday party, two tournament ball games  AND a whole lot of playing in the dirt. 

 

Honey put the end caps on the garden beds and I hung two darling solar power carriage lights at the gate.  I am simply smitten with this garden (so unlike me, for those who know me.)  That being said, I’m about to go stark raving mad over this horrific caterpillar called a cutworm.  In ONE NIGHT it took out two cucumber vines and an entire tomato plant (full of baby green tomatoes).  I cried real tears when I saw the devastation this morning.  I read all sorts of craziness online today about how to get rid of the monster but, to be honest, not much of it made a whole lot of sense to this novice gardener.  I sprayed all the stems down with Captain Jack’s Dead Bug Brew and Honey and I are about to go out there tonight after it’s good and dark to try to kill the darned things ourselves.  Any advise would be much appreciated.  [See my first garden post here.]

The other major accomplishment of the weekend was tackling the bed along side the house in the back yard.  It had these awfully overgrown shrubs, waaaaay too much stringy, ugly monkey grass and three lovely in-ground trash cans that were undoubtedly quite the luxury back in the 1968.  Honey dug out the bushes and monkey grass and Mother helped me plant annabelle hydrangeas (one in one of the aforementioned trash cans…ugh), confederate jasmine to train up the arbor, a little bird bath (Home Depot for about $30), hostas and some ground cover.  We then mulched right over the rest of the trash cans and concrete to give the illusion of one long bed.  I took an old frame from the basement and did a DIY antiqued mirror treatment to the glass (more on that soon) to fill in some of the space over the bird bath.  I’m not sure I LOVE that just yet, but it’s good enough for now.  Oh, and I strung up a little strand of solar powered lights on the top of the arbor.  That, I’m super excited about.

Last but not least, JuJu (Honey’s mama) took the boys (all three of them) to Target for water guns this afternoon.  They came back home grinning from ear to ear and a massive water fight ensued.  A good time was had by all!

  Wish me luck in Amanda vs Caterpillar.

xoxo

 

PS. Just got in from poking around in the garden and now I’m just soaking wet (it’s raining) and totally mad.  No sign of them.  Oh, and one of my sweet little carriage lights isn’t working and neither is the strand on the arbor.  UGH!

I Couldn’t Have Picked

…a better TEACHER!

After our day at Southern Belle Farm, the PCP trotted off to school with a fresh picked pint of strawberries for each of his teachers. 

I recycled cherry tomato containers printed out tags (using last year’s Independence Day invitation) to cover the cherry tomato labels that read “I couldn’t have picked a better teacher!”.  Topped off with some red twine, they are gifts ripe for giving.

Inside is another little tag that reads “Hand picked yesterday with love and care by the W family at Southern Belle Farm.”

Happy Friday, y’all!
xoxo

PS.  The wording is a shameless copy of the adorable printable from the ladies over at eighteen25 that’s been floating all about blogs and Pinterest for the last week or so.

Southern Belle Farm

Good Clean Fun

Fruits of Our Labor

Ripe for the Picking

Blackberry Palooza

Flattered for the feature at Design, Dining & Diapers and The Greenbacks Gal!!

How Does Your Garden Grow?

At home, finally!! 

After two years of sharing space in our community garden, we are so excited to bring our fruits, veggies and herbs home to a sunny spot in the back yard!

We have more space than in past years AND we can just step out the back door to enjoy the fruits of our labor.  Here’s how we did it:
- After clearing the overgrown weed infested bed that previously resided there, Honey constructed three raised garden bed kits from Home Depot, giving us a 12’x4’ planting area.
- Honey constructed a basic fence of 2’x4’s and hardware cloth and painted it black.  We left a 3’ border on all sides to be able to easily maneuver inside the fence.  The completed size is 18’x10’.  The obvious goal of the fence is to keep out the rabbits and other large animals roaming around but it’s probably already saved our tender little vegetables one thousand times from stray soccer  balls and children in pursuit.
- The littles and I shopped for all sorts of organic fruits, veggies and herbs to fill up our plots.  After planting, we mulched with wood chips from our very own oak tree that fell flat out of the ground a few weeks back. 
- We fertilize with E.B. Stone Organic Tomato & Vegetable Food and in past years have used Captain Jack’s Deadbug Brew to fight those pesky garden invaders.  I found both at Atlanta’s Pike Nurseries.
- I labeled our garden tags with vinyl letters.
- And, when the top came off the deck for the porch building project, we found a pile of slate stones left over from when the previous owners put in our front and back walkways.  We hauled a few over to make a nice little entryway.
- We’ve had two frost scares since planting.  In preparation, we thoroughly watered the garden and then covered the plants with newspaper tents. 

We’re growing squash, eggplant, red and green peppers, three varieties of tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers and okra.  In the herb department, we’ve got basil, cilantro, mint, lavender, dill, chives, rosemary and oregano.
 

It was honestly a LOT of work and took a LOT of time, but we couldn’t be happier about it.  We planted everything at the beginning of the month and have already watched our squash sprout from seeds and everything else double in size (at least).  We count the flowers popping up every day and can’t wait for them to turn into tomatoes and peppers.

But it hasn’t been all work and no play around these parts!  Yesterday sorority big sis and her littlest headed over from across town to play, lunch and catch up.  Just look at these two handsome boys…

And last night I celebrated THREE friend’s birthdays on a fantastic night out at a local pasta joint.

Have a great week!
xoxo


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