Gardening Days

Gardening Days

Invest in heirloom quality tools that will last you a lifetime in the garden. Cultivate a rich ecosystem in your yard, and feel the benefits that hours in the garden bring, for you and other living things! This collection was inspired by our friend, gardener extraordinaire, Alana Cullen of Tafari Designs, who feeds her family […]

Bulb Garden

Bulb Garden

The girls and I panted bulbs this week. We prepared a small garden, and planted about 50 bulbs. Mostly Daffodils and Crocus, and some Paper Whites too. Some of the bulbs did not look so healthy, and I am hoping that this corner of the garden will have enough Spring sun and that the soil […]

August Break: Pumpkin Planting

August Break: Pumpkin Planting

A few months ago Cam became a willing participant in a pumpkin growing competition with some friends from work. For a couple of weeks he had a pumpkin seedling sitting on the window sill at work. He would mention to me now and then that he needed to bring his pumpkin home so I could […]

Fairy Garden

Fairy Garden

This week we continued to work on the Garden. As it is our second year working in the garden I now have a little more knowledge of what to expect to see. I have begun to formulate a mental list of annuals and perennials, and am getting a better sense of how to garden in […]

Spring Garden

Spring Garden

Today we commenced work on our Spring Garden. We have noticed on our walks around the neighborhood that the bulb shoots are popping out of the soil, determined to grow into Spring flowers. The green shoots are such a welcome sight. Yippee, Spring is not far away! When I was working on the Summer garden, […]

Enchanted Garden

Enchanted Garden

We are enchanted by our garden. A few steps out side our door, it is our very special, magical play space. A thing we cherished after years of not having a yard. Since moving to Ditmas, this little back yard has been a source of joy. Summer days were easily filled with gardening, pools and […]

Perfect Sunday

Perfect Sunday

It is amazing how the slightly cooler temperature of the weekend changed our days. Gone was the humid intensity we felt throughout Summer and instead was a perfectly warm (but not hot) day with a cool breeze. The crispness of the morning air had our Girls run for cardigans and tights, which actually was not […]

Picking Plums

Picking Plums

It is harvest time in our yard. The plum tree is laden with ripe plums, and fallen plums lay on the ground beneath it as food for the birds and bugs. Tonight after dinner Lila (The daughter of the owner’s of our house) was outside our kitchen window picking the purple fruit to make jam. […]

Flower Bubble Sundaes

Flower Bubble Sundaes

A few times a week, and maybe even every day, we are enjoying the plastic bucket ‘pool’ with bubbles. Today while playing in the bubble pool we had the idea to make bubble sundaes with flower petal toppings. Here are our cute girls making flower bubble sundaes….

Picking Flowers

Picking Flowers

From the day we planted the first flowers in our little garden, Maya has been itching to pick them. Many a time I have hollered at her “Don’t pick the flowers Maya, let them grow!”. Mostly she has listened to this and so our garden remained full of blossoms. I appeased her somewhat by promising that […]

Summer Sprinkler

Summer Sprinkler

The owners of our house, Pam and Keith, came home the other day to find us playing in the yard. It was a particularly hot day and Pam offered to hold the hose for the girls to play in. I then said that I had been intending to buy a sprinkler, which led Keith into the […]

Squirrel Nutkin

Squirrel Nutkin

Everyone knows how mischievous Squirrel Nutkin is, and so we can only guess that it was he who ate our sun flowers heads. Would you believe it? I woke to a scuffling noise the other night and when I looked out the window I did not see anything, but then in the morning when I […]

Fairy Garden

Fairy Garden

Maya, Maya, quite contrary how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockrel shells and pretty maids all in a row…. This week we added a bell, colorful buttons, shells and wooden beads to our fairy garden. We made button borders and bead totems and added shells all around…

Fairy Garden

Fairy Garden

Here is the Fairy House…..and garden! What happy Fairies we must have! Maya calls it the Fairy Botanical Gardens. We have also planted seeds which to our delight we are  watching grow daily.

Shannon’s Nursery

Shannon’s Nursery

We hopped in our new car and drove to Shannon’s Nursery to buy some flowers for our fairy garden. What an exciting adventure! To drive a car as well as buy flowers to plant in our back yard! It was a very very hot day and so the flowers and plants were wilting under the […]

Fairy House

Fairy House

Yesterday we started working on a fairy house in the garden. I built this basic structure using twigs stuck into the soil and then I wove old ivy tendrils through the sticks. I have a feeling this will be an ongoing project that will span the warm days, into months of creativity. I will document […]

So Much Fun

So Much Fun

The highlight to our new home is definitely the leafy green yard. It is a romantic little yard fenced by ivy and roses. A lush patch of grass in the center of a unique bunch of trees. Including fruit baring edibles, Figs, plums, raspberry and blackberries. Having not had a private outdoor space for nearly […]