The backs of flowers can be as interesting as the fronts.... it gives an entirely different view and a new way to capture each flower's individual characteristics.....
(a journal of my journey into botanical watercolors)
(a journal of my journey into botanical watercolors)
Fuschias are one of my favorite flowers. I have overwintered probably ~25 or more. Now's the time of year I need to repot and trim them do...
(a journal of my journey into botanical watercolors)
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(a journal of my journey into botanical watercolors)
Llega el verano y con él una de mis plantas favoritas. Una humilde mata que crece junto al tomillo en los suelos muy pobres y que sin embargo, contiene la esencia más deliciosa y saludable de la naturaleza. Es aromática, antiséptica, comestible, versátil, fotogénica. Se llama lavanda, un nombre balsámico...
'Dilly Dilly' Lavender is a spherical shrub packed with highly fragrant violet-blue flower spikes. A great choice for cut flowers and crafts, its round shape adds an interesting element to perennial beds and walkway borders. A hardy, easy to grow variety, 'Dilly Dilly' tolerates heat, drought, and poor, dry soils. Attracts pollinators and repels deer. (Lavandula x intermedia)
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While at Brimfield a few weeks ago, I found a few more lavender bottles... ...to add to my growing collection. Some o...
Meet the Easy Waves. Carried on plants with a habit both mounding and spreading, they create a big impression in containers, baskets, and mixed bowls. For uniform blooms that continue all season, gorgeous flowers that catch the eye from across the patio, and carefree growth, rely on Easy Wave® Lavender Sky Blue Petunia Seeds. Like all the Easy Waves®, Easy Wave® Lavender Sky Blue Petunia sets new blooms from the center as well as the ends of each stem, keeping the plant looking fresh and newly-opened month after month. Reaching just 6 to 12 inches high (depending upon how you choose to grow it) but prepared to spread up to 39 inches wide, this is a nonstop beauty for any sunny setting. Petunia Wave® has taken the gardening world by storm since its introduction a few years ago. Its spreading habit is just stunning, covering ground at the rate of several inches every single day, and trailing lots of big, colorful blooms as it goes. Easy Wave® Lavender Sky Blue Petunia doesn't reach quite as far as the older Waves, but it stands up "taller," offering a more manageable and attractive shape for hanging baskets, window boxes, and flowerpots of all kinds.
The summer strawberry garden 🍓
When our daughters were teenagers, we decided it was time to take a trip to merry old England, the setting of so many of my historical romances. While we were there, we stopped by the windswept hills that boast one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks: Stonehenge. Wow, was it cold that day (we lived... Read More
These fields were insanely gorgeous...I wish I could share the smell with you! post here
As summer nears its end and autumn is in the air i've been cutting lavender to dry to make little lavender hearts and sachets with.............i love the floral scent and the delicate shades of this plant... ............these gorgeous softly coloured fabrics have inspired my making........they are from the sausalito cottage collection by holly holderman for lakehouse dry goods and i think they are some of my favourite designs............ ............as well as making lavender hearts i made some simple lavender sachets too.......the fabric is perfect for these......if you don't grow lavender yourself you can buy it online (which i also do)....i need a LoT of lavender..................i bought the soap below in the south of france............it is not actually lavender scented but i love the look of it here........ ..............collecting decorative bottles, soaps and scents is something i love to do and have always done, to inspire design ideas and to just look pretty around my home, studio and now to photograph to share with my blog friends :)...............i love the floral fragrances too, especially when winter arrives and i can't pop out to the garden to pick a scented posy (though i do have lots of bowls of bulbs around the house in the winter time instead).................... ................three little lavender hearts.........now i have got over the initial 'cutting into' of these sweet fabrics i can get on with using them in a new patchwork design................. ...............i had a tidy up in my studio this week......only a quick one and i need to do a lot more, but i came across this cute little bag of wooden letters in my scrapbooking supplies cupboard....... ...............so i had a little play with them............. ................i have cut most of the lavender that i want to dry now and tied it into bunches and hung it up in the linen cupboard to dry............the linen cupboard was one of the things i was excited about when we moved here as it is a walk in one, with the original shelves which i imagined neatly stacked with linen and dotted with lavender bags.....it was like that for a while soon after we moved in but does tend to get filled up with storing other things now and then.............. ...............i love all kinds of lavender..............below is some dried sea lavender from france...... ................and a traditional lavender in a cloche from our garden................. ...............another picture from our garden below..............i love the lavender here with the white daises and the beehive which is really a composter.......... .................i am working on a lot of new projects at the moment, with several magazine commissions to complete so i will be cutting and sewing for the rest of today..........the weather has turned autumnal here but we are told the summer is coming back again later this week :).............the grandchildren go back to school tomorrow, in fact daisy starts school for the first time.......sigh.... (afternoons only for the first week).......how fast the time goes............... ..............i have lots of plans and projects for the autumn............i love the variety of seasons we have here in the uk and the pleasures that we enjoy with each one.............of course, making quilts is perfect for autumn and hand quilting is an ideal wintertime pursuit..............i'll be doing lots....... ..............thank you for visiting me here today dear readers, it is lovely to see you and i do appreciate your kind comments.........it is always a treat to hear from my blog friends and to find new bloggers too...........wishing you all a happy september wherever you may be.........back soon xxxxxxxxxxx
There are more than 450 lavender, varieties, but here are the best for filling your garden with color, fragrance, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
This blackcurrant and lavender pie is an outstanding flavour combination! The berries and herbs complement each other perfectly. It' the perfect way to celebrate the huge variety of summer produce.
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