The everyday life of an everyday woman. Friday, March 15, 2013. Click on picture to enlarge it for a better visual. New Zealand has officially been declared as being in a drought. Most of the North Island has had no significant rain since well before Christmas. Whoever would have thought we would be praying for a cyclone to head our way? Anyhoo,.

An agriculture student in France writes about organic farming, sustainability, and the environment. Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Anybody know a trusted website for scientific name of plants? I need it to be complete not just for some plants. I searched in google there are lots, but not complete. I need it to have complete taxonomic order information from kingdom to species an subspecies and ! Saturday, July 21, 2012.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012. A look at my garden with new eyes. I had cataract surgery last summer, and I am often distressed by what I can see now; spiderwebs on the ceilings, for instance. However, I am not distressed by what I am seeing in my garden lately. I have been working on my pottery for about 3 years. Learning, learning, learning, and while I am not done learning, I can finally take a time to pay attention to other things. Everything in my garden now is tough.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter; to count, to stand for something, to have made a difference that you lived at all. Friday, February 13, 2015. Original Antique and Vintage Romantic Lovers Prints. I love thee - I love thee,. Tis all that I can say. It is my vision in the night,. My dreaming in the day. Early 1900s print by W.

Learning gardening by getting out there and doing it! April 4, 2011. Still Live and Kicking! Posted by Ria under Uncategorized. I must admit that I have been simply itching to get back to blogging since Spring decided to creep around the corner, but have to make an apology for my lateness.

We just need to give them something interesting to spend time with. 4 of 5 stars to The Alice Network by Kate Quinn goodreads.

Life isnt black and white its brown and green with blue all over. Friday, July 3, 2009. The perennials in this container have been in there for about 3 years now. the container goes in the garage in nov until late april early may. last year the japanese painted fern was huge! A container renovation may be in order at the end of the summer season, which. do i put new plants in the container? Only leave the painted fern in there for next year, put the others in the garden? Gosh, .

It is a wonderful way to honor the stewardship I have over my plot of ground I have been blessed with. Thanks for stopping by! Monday, March 9, 2015. It has been a couple of years since I added to my little gardening room - life happens right! TIP FOR TODAY -. Thursday, May 2, 2013.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012. Peeking in September behind the Garden Gate. All is well with the world here and I think its high time to give you an update and pick my blogging back up. It is late September and finally things are cooling off and it is lovely just being alive outside. Out of control potato vine. Elephant Ears, Impatiens and Hydrangeas. Backdoor with murderous Garden Hose who has tried to kill me on multiple occasions.

Week two of the massive garden clean-up was well underway this weekend despite squalls coming through the Cowichan Valley about every hour or so. It completely masks the fact that all the way around the pond requires weeding, clearing, stick removal, and cut-back. But what a lovely picture, eh? Took over 4 hour.