Our Garden is blooming

Begonias just put on such a show every year and I pick bits off and plant them around the garden and they bloom year after year

Cosmos just about to burst its buds.  I scattered the seed in every available space in Winter including all the pots.  I had forgotten them until the fluffy stems came up everywhere.  I thought they looked like carrots, but knew I hadn't planted carrots everywhere.  What could they be we pondered, maybe love in a mist, but the love in a mist came up and looked a little different.  Then I remembered the cosmos seeds.  They kept getting taller and taller and now are almost ready to burst their buds ( Their beauty revealed next post)

We found the hanging baskets kept drying out very quickly and struggled in last years heat.  This year we planted them with pelagoniams and they rewarded us with this delightful display.  Pelagoniams and geraniums will grow in dry and harsh conditions.

The sweet peas are just as their name implies, the sweetest little delicate flower

More Garaniums growing in a pot,I love the colour of this one.

My Victorian lady admiring the pink bergonias

More sweet peas

The poppies are blooming very early this year.  Usually they bloom for Poppy day in November.

Painted lillies,an all time favourite and so easy to grow

 Statis is great for dried flower arrangements

The lovely smiley faces of pansies and viola

I am joining,Fresh Cut Friday at Rose Vignettes and  Cottage Flora Thursday today. Have a nice day x

Tea Time Tuesday

I am linking up with Rose Chintz Cottage for tea today, i am going to use my little rose patterned teacup and teapot

I have made melting moments to enjoy with my tea

My garden today

This is my garden taken all on the same day.  I thought it all looked so pretty at the moment, I would turn my pics into a collage.

I am linking up with Show off Your Cottage monday today xx

Pink Saturday

The Azalia is really starting to bloom with the start of Spring.  I painted the pot blue for contrast and a splash of colour.

Elegant victorian girl enjoying the pink leafy plant of which I have forgotten the name, but never fails to put on a show.  It grows easily from a cutting too.  I pick pieces off and plant it around the garden

Pink cupcakes on my market stall

Pansies are the prettiest, sweetest little flower, with their smiley faces and are quite at home in one of my vintage teacups

One of two Abutilons we have, this is Miller and we also have Abutilon Frazer. They are loved by the honey eaters, who hang from the leaves to taste the sweet honey from the flowers each morning before bathing in the bird bath

I am joining How Sweet the Sound for Happy Pink Saturday today

A little tour of my home

I am taking you on a little tour today of our home.

 I am linking up with Home sweet Home today for show and tell Friday link is on my sidebar

The Sunroom

Dining room/kitchen

Hallway

Another part of the dining room

Sewing/writing room

Sitting room at Christmas time.  I might not decorate Christmas this year in the traditional colours. I think maybe I will have all silver and white.  Just a thought, a little time yet to change my mind.

Bedroom

Some of my vintage collections. I love cutlery with bone handles, memories of Grandma's home 

Bathroom window made by our daughter.  It changes colour as the sun and light change.Collection of vintage bottles and jars

A collection of my blue and white china, I can't seem to stop buying it,usually from op shops and markets

Another part of the sewing room with the table I recently painted white.  I hope you have enjoyed the little peak into my home

My Hibiscus

The Hibiscus are all starting to show off their beautiful bright colours.

 The single white is always my favourite, I love its simplicity and its gorgeous bright red stamen

The marshmallowness of this one looks pretty enough for any display

I am joining Fishtail Cottage for Cottage Flora Thursday today

Roses for my vintage jars and bottles

I bought some gorgeous decals from Jo-Anne Colletti of http://www.vintagerosecollection.com/

Jo-Anne paints beautiful roses on everything.

I put a Soaps decal and a Bath Salts one on the larger jars and little victorian ones on the bottles.They look lovely with my newly painted side table,I think

I am also visiting House in the Roses today, Cielo has spoken beautiful words that touch your heart