Friday, December 24, 2010

Wishing everyone a blessed Christmas!

Merry Christmas to al my blogging friends!


Sleep tight my beautiful gardens see you in the spring!
Baby it's cold outside!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

~More beautiful mums on my porch~

Love Mums these I will plant in my gardens to come back again next year.

Potting bench on my wrap around porch.

This Vintage potting bench on my wrap around porch. is where I plant seeds and repot plants while visiting with friends.

~My favorite place to be Home~

Come and sit

Change is Good!

Fall is almost over and winter will soon be here just a few pictures of my beautiful gardens and home to remind me that it's not the end but the beginning of a new season and I have bigger and better things to look forward to when Spring arrives.

I love this picture it shows some of the things I love the most about my home. The wrap around porch with the original tongue and grove boards and the old clap board siding the wonderful old glass in the windows you can see the waves from the years of weather and sun just beautiful!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

~Beautiful Mums in my gardens~

There is something so romantic about mums, the colors are so soft they are such a happy flower. A great flower to end the growing season and say good bye to summer. Notice how the colors of mums blend so well with the beautiful Autumn colors of the leaves.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Fall in my Gardens

Hello friends we were blessed with a beautiful fall day in the 60's so I went out in the gardens to clean up and prepare for winter. While cutting back some flowers I found some were blooming to my surprise and I wanted to share my beautiful gardens one more time.
Hope you enjoy!
 Happy Fall!
Come and Sit and have a cup of Coffee.

My Day Lilies started blooming again last week.

I cut my coneflowers back and found more blooms hidden inside the old ones.
Grass with fall blooms

My Beautiful Roses

Some Beautiful Mums!

Some beautiful Annuals

Tuesday, October 12, 2010


I love Fall
I found this giant hanging mum and had to add it to my gardens.

I have several growing in the gardens and they smell wonderful!
When everything else is dieing back for the winter the mum's are all in full bloom. The different colors are amazing!

Thursday, September 30, 2010

My roses are performing now that the heat is gone and fall has arrived they will keep going until the frost then will sleep for the winter.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Happy Fall!

Fall means cooler temps and shorter days but also Fall brings vibrant and warm colors to the gardens. The beautiful mums are opening to put on a show to warm the Heart and soul!

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Birds playing in the birdbath.
My Best buds my Boston's Maggie & Lizzie and my boxer Roxie. They are always in the gardens with me.
A Hummingbird moth hanging in the gardens they love the same flowers that regular hummingbirds do.They are very amazing creatures!

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Someplace to sit and relax


I painted my furniture this year my favorite turquoise blue it's such a crisp happy color. I love to sit here in the garden and watch the birds and butterflies.

Blackeyed Susan




The blackeyed susan's are all open early this summer they are one flower that can take the heat. We have been very hot and dry here in the northeast we had July heat in June and it has continued with no break.
August is going to be interesting!

My Roses


One of my beautiful roses.

My new Sun Porch


Beautiful soft yellow walls airy white sheers frame the sun porch. The daybed is a yard sale find for $10 the pillows I made well there are the 4 green ones I did buy at the dollar store. I have almost every color chenille bedspread I can put my hands on. Here I used a white one and a pink one folded at the bottom. I did just find a beautiful turquoise blue one which I have on the bench folded with turquoise baskets under for magazines and sewing projects that I can work on while relaxing on the daybed. Everything in the sun porch is about nature and the gardens from the flower material I used on the pillows to all my little birds and some pictures of roses from my friend Irena's gardens. I love shabby chic decor so my goal was to use soft pastels and vintage finds. I painted all the furniture white to give this room a soft Victorian feel. Oh no men allowed! They have their man caves I have my Shabby Chic Bright Sun Porch!

My Wrap around front porch I decorate it like another room in my home.

One of my favorite places my wrap around porch. I sit out here in the evenings I get full sun in the mornings. I also spend lots of time on my new sun porch I just had put on the back of my house both are decorated with flea market and yardsale finds. The gardens in the front are 5 years old they continue down both sides of my house and into the fenced in back yard. I live in the mountains of western MD inside city limits but it is very much a country setting other then the sidewalks and alleys between the streets. The street I live on is brick one of a few left original in thiz historic town. My gardens in the back yard are 2 years old and the newest this summer I planted just outside of my sun porch. I planted roses along the wall that will fill in some are climbers and will grow up the sides. I can see the gardens from the windows when I relax in the sunporch after a long day at work or working in the gardens. I love to read and spend time with my dogs on my sun porch.
Come visit my other blog http://suesjunktreasures.blogspot.com I have posted some of my flea market finds and some junk I have made from old found treasures.