Time In The Garden

Enjoying the garden after weeding and watering this morning.   Have a good day in the garden friends.    Tallulaha

~ New Garden Treasure ~

We have decided to take a break away from the garden being that it was our anniversary and the Rose Bowl flea market was happening last Sunday. So we headed down there at five in the morning to find a treasure for our home. We had gone up and down the many allies of vendors and had seen a lot of goodies. But nothing really stood out there.

Being that we were already in Pasadena we decided to browse the local shops that might be open on a Sunday. We had came across this marble statue where she was sitting in the garden area of the shop. She is a 19TH century hand carved statue with the artist signature and most likely carved in Italy. There is a little butterfly sitting on her arm but the wings are missing so now it looks like a little Caterpillar and she also has a boo boo on her little leg.

Ray decided to give her a home in our back garden in the circular flower bed. She seems to be happy in her new home along with the other garden antiques out there.

The hydrangeas have given us many blooms this Spring and lets us know that Summer is at our front door with all the colorful blooms. This is Ray's favorite the white hydrangea below. He is always reminding me to give her an extra drink of water lol. And the pinks ones look nice in front of this antique urn.

In the area where we live they can be a challenge to grow with our heat but they look like they are doing just fine. This year I have learned to start putting leaves around the base to keep the roots cool.

Thank You all for dropping by the garden for a visit today and I hope you have a great weekend........Julian & Ray

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~ Our Get away From Work ~

Well here we are, still relaxing in our back garden with Summer about to begin . The roses and some of the other blooms will start to slow down once the summer heat starts. This is the reason why we have not been posting for a while. We just wanted to enjoy what mother nature has given us for a bit. This is the back side garden with a view of the wall, notice our little bird feeder hanging from the tree. We really enjoy watching all our little friends eating from their feeders, Hummbirds, Oriole's, Bluebirds, Yellow Finch's, Bluejay's ect...

We love to use vintage an antique garden ornaments through out the garden. Such as the birdbaths and cast iron garden urns, we have purchased through the years on our weekend trips. And our yearly trips to South Carolina too see Raymond's mother & father.

This is another section of the back garden where we planted some Texas privet to divide the back yard to create another garden room.

This bed is our newest bed garden, it has been planted with some roses, lavender, lambs ear and some acanthus. And we moved our front birdbath to this area. since we are currently remodeling the front garden and adding a court yard with a wonderful vintage fountain.

The Queen's Anne lace really took off and I had to thin some of it out because it took over some of the roses along the wall.

This urn was found at the Long Beach flea market two years ago and the price was too steal and we just couldn't pass it up.

This side of the wall garden hasn't really bloomed yet, but it is the last place where the sun shines during the later part of the day. Thanks for stopping by our garden and staying a while. It was great to be back blogging again.........Julian & Ray Today I will be linking up to I must appologize to some of you for not being able to leave a comment we are still having trouble leaving them on some of the different blogs. But I just want to say Thank You all for hosting this evening....

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