Vegetable Garden

Our vegetable garden last year
Grape tomatoes,
Small red watermelon,
English cucumber,
Squash, butternut squash,
speghetti squash (small variety),
Eggplant

Backyard gardening 2

When we planted our River Birch last year I set up an area for Hostas. They are gone now, Grizz Bear (Husky) and small animals ate them ALL!




Fig tree











We had a small area that got very wet from the A/C that is behind this fence area. I got some swamp grass from someone local on FreeCycle and dug out the area. Plant is right at home and no more puddle!

You can see a portion of the Pergola that my husband built in the back yard, gate to garden in the distance. I put some stones for a pathway to the gate.

Backyard gardening

We have had these banana palms for few years now. We cut them back every fall and cover them with mulch. They come back in the Spring. This picture was taken in June. We got a bud and baby bananas from it a couple of years ago when we had an especially warm long Spring and late Fall.

Our adopted Huskies love the shade from the Palm tree, they also eat the tender tips of the fronds! When we are not looking, some of the baby banana palms dissapear!




We have a gate in our back yard that goes into our secluded vegetable garden. I put a hayrack planter on the fence, one on each side of the gate.

Magnolia that was planted last year

Plum tree

Back of detached garage showing our River Birch Butterfly bush, wax myrtle bushes and my raised herb bed that my husband made for me.

Shell bracket shelf

This is how I found the shelf bracket at Marshalls. It had gold and was painted different colors.

I painted the shell bracket shelf with my wall color (SW Pacer White) with some burnt umber mixed in with the paint to create the shadowed areas.

Then I pained all the high spots with the straight Pacer White color.

I attached it to the wall in my Guest room.

The shelf seems to grow out of the wall and has just enough definition to make out all the shell shapes. Great shadows with low lighting.

Clock collection

I have a few clocks on my buffet unit that I use in my living room.
You will also see a lit shell tree near the picture, that is a creation made by Liz, who's site Tropic Designs is listed on this Blog.

Clock wall #1 in my dining room

Clock wall #2 in my dining room

Just a few more clocks around my house

Comments on the Slide show of Nova Scotia

I thought I could go back and edit the slideshow, but I have no option for it now. I wanted to mention that this is the area where I grew up as a child. I love the ocean and this is where I fell in love with it! I lived on a farm and we had the best of the farm and fishing.

Nova Scotia slide show