Christian – Country Living – Fashion – Home – Garden
Christian – Country Living – Fashion – Home – Garden
Ladies, We are immune to ourselves, are we not? What is most normal and habitual in my life is foreign and strange to another. This reality has stunned me on more than one occasion when I have met people who never spend time outdoors and who never take walks. How can this be? My mind …
Ladies, The mid-summer heat is in full force and aside from some sturdy roses, my garden has all but collapsed as of July. Which means of course that I have learned many garden lessons to take with me into seasons ahead. More heat tolerant perennials…check! More morning watering, check! More weeding….check. Less mixed seed packets …
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Proverbs 3:17 As of June, the blueberries are turning a ripe blue. I even rejoiced for the birds as I love seeing them swoop into the bush to pluck a juicy treat and often tenderly feed one to its mate. It thrills me to watch …
Ladies, For all of the insects that plague the Southern garden, there are as many early blooms. The humidity is descending as the temperatures rise to the upper 80’s already as of May 1st. But as my favorite cool air is now relegated to the nights of enjoying it through the open window, my days …
Ladies, The gardener must have a plan. But the plan can be “I am craving violas”. Yes, let the flowers romance your decisions. As winter suddenly turned into spring this year as of March, I found myself longing for a long-lost friend, those first blooms of spring during my childhood up North. Violas would appear …
Ladies, Making things beautiful is hard work. I stood in my winter garden yesterday in the February air looking at how beauty can degrade. None of the outcomes we enjoy happen as quickly as a scroll to it, or a page turned, or a video clicked. The truth of beauty is that it is sometimes …
Best Return on Investment in the Garden Ladies, This seasons best bloomers was between the double knockout roses and the hydrangeas. But the longest lasting blooms award definitely goes to my hydrangea friends. I’m swooning over their gorgeous blooms that lasted five months from March until August. After five months, the blooms started to look …
Welcome to my summer home in the countryside Ladies, Summer always makes me think of the Mediterranean. So aside from never-ending laundry from sweating through our clothes in one day, I design a summer home reminiscent of this look and feeling of being among the rolling hills of the French and Italian countryside and those …
Country women & gardeners have style essentials too Ladies, have you ever noticed how fashion magazines assume we all live in the city and work in offices? Their recommendations never seem to take into account the one who spends her days outdoors, among dirt, plants, animals, even children, working for her own family or a …
Learning how to design a garden starts with observing the garden… Ladies, I could have titled this article “The beautiful spot amid a tattered rental property and what it taught me” but that is long winded. This has been our rental property for only four months which makes the dream of an established garden, that …
