I Love Tea Cups

I Love Tea Cups

Saturday, May 24, 2014

*Memorial Day*


Hello everyone,
I'm still catching up after our Garden Tour and I'm overcome with the wonderful experience. Gardeners are the best!!!!
Today the kickoff weekend to Summer and Sweetheart and I are  enjoying a quiet weekend at home. 
We bought a new flag to hang in the front of our house. 
As you will see in this post I love our flag. 
My most favorite Memorial Day was in 2006 when we visited Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. HERE  

Our new flag flying in the wind.







Thanks for visiting and have a safe weekend.
Joyously,
Betty
Linking:
Met Monday at Between Naps on the Porch
Mosaic Monday at Little Red House

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Before, After and Potpourri

Hi everyone, 
What a week! I'm finally on the mend from working in the yard for  three months. This week I just posted my garden tour for everyone to enjoy. I'm working on my kneeler non-stop.HERE and cleaning the house, paying bills and doing more planting. I was given 11 miniature roses from the rose society. I also planted some geraniums I had in the galvanized pails next to the little stove.
Remember the cute cherubs in the bird bath?
Before
Here they are all dressed up for the garden tour.
After
So Sweet*
This little kitchen stove is apartment size and does work. 
Our granddaughters would play with this stove by the hours during the summer. One day I found them brewing tea with some JALAPENO PEPPERS from the garden. I ran out and told them to wash their hands and don't touch their eyes...LOL!  No, No, No, that just won't do!
Before 
I wanted to share the urn in the fork of the tree and the galvanized pails with alyssum and geraniums.
After
The tea party is ready and the little stove is decorated for a fabulous day in the garden.
Roses in full bloom.
The perfect bud. More potpourri.
While I visiting a friend I took this photo. A hummingbird drinking from a hand pump fountain. It's amazing.
I love this photo. 
These lovely cherubs are so dear to my heart.
Thank you for visiting.
Joyously,
Betty
Linking to:
Mosaic Monday at Little Red House.
Met Monday at Between Naps on the Porch
Inspire Me at A Stroll Thru Life
The Scoop at Cedar Hill Farmhouse
Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Daydreamer
Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style 
 Katherines Corner for Favorite Things, 
 A Delightsome Life for Home and Garden,
  From My Front Porch To Yours for Treasure Hunt Thursday
Fishtail Cottage for Garden Party
Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage
Home Sweet Home at The Charm of Home
Show and Tell at  My Romantic Home
Love of Family & Home for Inspire Me Please  

Monday, May 12, 2014

Rose and Garden Tour 2014


"The Garden of Angels"


Hello everyone,
Our property is eight-tenths of a acre. The front yard is low maintenance with Camellia Japonica, Hydrangea and Camellia Sasanqua 'Yuletide' and a large Maple tree.
This is the sign that greeted our visitors as they entered our garden.
 The front porch was bedecked with a beautiful potted plant I bought at Home Depot.

 Flowering Pear and Raywood Ash trees line the driveway. Walking under an arbor covered with a 'New Dawn' climbing rose brings visitors into "The Garden of Angels" with a view of different entertaining spaces.
The kitchen area is for cooking and canning. An enclosed patio provides a place for shade loving plants and a fern grotto. The seating area is for conversation on warm summer evenings and watching TV.
A fragrant circular rose garden is surrounded with potted herbs and a Dutchman's Pipevine leads to the hand built pergola.
 The pergola provides a place for tea time or evening dining and is surrounded by lavender, roses perennials and annuals.


 Other benches are placed along the path under an old shade tree.
Sally Holmes rose and purple lupins
The large lawn area is bordered by a curved English cottage style garden with decorative statues, perennials, several types of roses and shrubs providing color spring, summer and fall.
 An additional park bench sits under a flowering plum tree.
 Growing along the fence are grape vines, and a plot where a summer vegetable garden is planted. One olive tree provides the best cured green olives. Behind the garage is a small area for potting plants and storing extra garden supplies. The vendors were in the back of the property selling mosaic garden decor, bird houses and wind chimes.
The rose society sold a 100 miniature rose along the side of the garage.
 The cupids got dressed up with some sweet white Alyssum and Graham Thomas my David Austin rose bloomed profusely.
Ingrid Bergman, Simplicity, St Patrick, Dream Weaver, Tiffany and my peonies were showing off at their best. I just  planted strawberries and  Bat Face Cuphea in the front part of this bed.
Summer Kiss and my Butterfly Bush are doing wonderful.
 This is a great Gardening year.
"Gardening is a journey-always changing and always so rewarding.
This is one the of the beautiful bouquets that were sitting on tables.
 I have so many photos I just couldn't put them in one post.
 This is Garden Party  and a Thompson Seedless Grape vine in the pergola area
 A vendor with metal garden are work was very popular.
What an amazing day for me. It was a dream come true. 
Hope you enjoyed your tour and please come back soon.
I have more to show you.♥
Linking to:
Inspire Me at A Stroll Thru Life
The Scoop at Cedar Hill Farmhouse
Rose Chintz Cottage for Tea Time Tuesday
Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Daydreamer
Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style 
 Katherines Corner for Favorite Things, 
The Vintage Farmhouse for Creative Things 
 A Delightsome Life for Home and Garden,
Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps on the Porch
Love of Family & Home for Inspire Me Please  
  From My Front Porch To Yours for Treasure Hunt Thursday
Fishtail Cottage for Garden Party
Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage
Home Sweet Home at The Charm of Home
Show and Tell at  My Romantic Home
Joyously,
Betty

Summer Wreath


Hi everyone,
It's Monday morning and I feel like a new person. Wow it took a week to recover physically from my first Garden Tour.
In April I made a Wreath for my front porch to greet my guests for the Rose Tour. HERE. Well the wreath was a little small for my large porch, so it decided to make a new wreath.  
"Summertime and the Livin' is Easy"
I had an old sunburst grapevine wreath and I added two long stems of dogwood and the same burlap bow from my first wreath. To add more texture to the wreath I added a neutral colored ribbon on the top of the burlap bow and a sprig of white fern. 
Before
After
Now my front porch is bedecked for Summertime.
Please come back tomorrow for photos from
My first Garden Tour.
Linking to:
Met Monday at Between Naps on the Porch  
Make It Pretty Monday at The Dedicated House
Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings-The Heart of Your Home
Have a great day!
Joyously,
Betty  

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Happy Mother's Day


Happy Mother's Day to all!
Wow what a whirlwind of a week I've had. Last Saturday I had my garden tour and Sunday a potluck for the Rose Society. Monday was clean up and it has taken me all week to recuperate. 
I want to share a sweet tea pot and tea cup to serve one. A dear friend is moving away and gave me this as a gift. 
The sweet angel holding a rose is a gift from my sweetheart. He found six little angels at a yard sale and I used them as decorations on little tables around the yard on Saturday. 
Little things mean so much to me...  
My pink geranium is blooming and she is so pretty in my vintage bird cage. I have it on our new patio table we bought for our garden tour. 
Mother's Day is your day
All day 
Have it your way 
Happy Mother's Day
Joyously,
Betty  
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