Kew Gardens 9th Smile

Kew – not always blossoms …

What a great tree!

 

I love the wide and colourful variety

of grasses bending in the wind.

 

…and some lovely house leek,

and very old Bonsai Trees.

All photos taken by me at Kew Gardens.

 

Kew Gardens 8th Smile

Kew – a destination always worth it.

When ever you go,

it is exciting.

Every time there are different plants blooming,

there are more plants to discover and

I can practice and take pictures with my new phone camera.

You can never get tired of this beautiful Garden.

Some close ups

Rose

Waterlily

Lotus

Kew

Kew

Kew

This red ….

In the Alpine house

‘Stroh Blume’

Kew

‘Stroh Blume’

Kew

Fruit

Please click on the individual photo to enlarge,

All photos taken by me at Kew Gardens.

 

 

Kew Gardens 7th Smile

On a beautiful day another visit to Kew Gardens.

There is currently

an exhibition of Dale Chihuly‘s Glass Art in the midst of all plants.

It was a brilliant day with so much to see.

It started off with this amazing glass art sculpture.

While you walk around with me

you see his radiant colours of those glass art pieces

in the midst of plants in Kew.

They fit in so well.

Please click on the individual photo to enlarge,

All photos taken by me at Kew Gardens.

 

New Phone Camera

I have a new phone and therefore a new camera.

My phone is my camera.

In my garden I have a Maracuja plant which was first in my kitchen

and as the weather was better I took it out in the garden.

The next day there was nothing left of it,

all leaves had been eaten and just a little stem was left.

Whoever has eaten it, I hope it was a delicious feast.

Well I decided to take it back indoors and now I can see a very little shoot coming.

I took a picture with my new Huawai Phone zoomed in 6x.

On the bottom right on the picture you can see another shoot developing.

This is not really visible with the naked eye.

Only through the camera shot I noticed it.

I am impressed with this new camera /phone.

Today is …… #31

…. a day to be grateful.

I received some plants from a friend’s garden and added them to mine.

They were grateful and started to bloom.

 

And this little one visited

I am grateful to the beautiful plants who give me

pleasure and happiness in return.

I love sitting in my little garden to rest and enjoy all plants!

This Year’s Strawberries

… and again I had some lovely strawberries.

Each year I harvest them with pleasure.

Look at the lovely berries!

What a beauty!

They all tasted wonderful!

I am very grateful!

 

Garden changes

Inspired by Sally’s Blog – My beautiful things,

I really wanted to do my own Boody Garden.

I bought plants which should last a while and added my broken pottery.

 

As it looks now

 

I had some remaining bits

and I had to move my Parsley,

so I planted them into my old drawer.

Hopefully the Parsley comes again like last year.

 

It was so pleasant outside.

Sitting in the garden

listening to the  birds

is a wonderful recharge!

Kitchen Capers and my Primula

Liz from Leaping life blog inspired me with her Kitchen Capers.

Liz made her own loaf of bread.

I was itching to make my own bread too.

Looking up James Morton on you tube

I found an easy recipe – a mug bread.

 

 

The result was fantastic,

and half the bread was gone within minutes.

Thank you Liz for your yummy post,

I will certainly do it for next weekend again

as we were all so impressed.

 

My Primula was very busy making more flowers.

Look at the difference from my last post here.

Kew Gardens 6th Smile – Orchid Festival

‘He has made everything beautiful in it’s time.’

Ecclesiastes 3,11

 

and to bring the beauty from all over the world,

Kew Gardens is celebrating the Orchid Festival until March 10th.

It really is a festival of colours, sounds and beauty.

This year there are Orchids

from the world’s most biodiverse county: Colombia.

Breathtaking displays of orchids,

a sweet smell,

accompanied with Colombian music,

even the cacti have hats on….

 

Let me take you through with this donkey:

 

Animals made include a toucan,  a swimming turtle…..

A sloth

 

and a life sized Jaguar

 

There are 1000’s species of orchids,

different colours, different sizes.

Enjoy the show:

 

 

Please click on the individual photo to enlarge.

All photos taken by me at Kew Gardens.

 

 

God’s painting

My strawberry plant has been painted with autumnal colours

 

 

A joy in my garden

 

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Audrey Hepburn