Wishing all our gardening friends and their families a wonderful Christmas Day filled with love, laughter, happy memories and lovely blooms from your gardens!
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true …
With love on Christmas Day
Christine
xxx
Blooming on Christmas day …
I was so impressed with Christine’s post that I’m joining my gardening buddy on her Twelve Days of Christmas, as well as Diana of Elephant’s Eye for her annual Christmas Theme, The Twelve Days of Christmas! It is that time of year we can all reflect and look back on the highlights of the past year. It has been an eventful gardening year for me and I would never have achieved so much and had so much pleasure out of my garden if it was not for all our blogging friends! Thank you all! And most of all my special gardening buddy, Christine!! THANK YOU for all we share together!!!
I want to wish all our garden bloggers a Happy Festive Season! I’m going to be spending a lot of my time in MY garden!
Happy Gardening xxxxx
Today I’m joining my friend and gardening mentor, Diana of Elephant’s Eye for her annual Christmas Theme, The Twelve Days of Christmas! (I call it a theme rather than a meme, because Christmas is about so much more than just a blogging meme).
As Diana suggested, I’ve trawled through photo archives of the last 12 months and have chosen to express my Twelve Days of Christmas in photographs taken in my garden that depict highlights of the past gardening year. Photos are either of gardening moments that were special or particularly rewarding for me and in keeping with the theme, relate to the numbers one to twelve.
As my first “year as a gardener” draws to a close it has been fun and rewarding to go through all the photo archives and see just how far my little garden has come in the past twelve months. My photo essay for “The Twelve Days of Christmas” could also be called “The Twelve Months of Gardening …”
Each photograph relates (and is linked – see below) to a post done in the past year, except for numbers four and ten … these are related to a lengthy post I will be doing over the holidays, all about my latest “re-do” project. Do you see any differences? I’ve not shown the whole picture which is why the photos may not make sense just yet. All will be revealed soon, but I promise there really are “4 Jasmines creeping” and “10 Carex mounding”. You just can’t see them yet 🙂
1. One Hadeda Ibis visiting
2. Two Bumble Bees buzzing
3. Three Fuchsias dancing
4. Four Jasmine climbing
5. Five Birds a bathing
6. Six per-fect Pistils
7. Seven fragrant Lavender
8. Eight Clivia blooming
9. Nine Colours mingling
10. Ten Carex mounding
11. Eleven Daffodils glowing
12. and Twelve perfect Roses for my vase!
On the Twelve days of Christmas my Garden gave to me …
One Hadeda Ibis a visiting
Two Bumble Bees a-Buzzing
Three Fuchsias dancing
Four Jasmines climbing
Five Birds a bathing
Six per-fect pistils
Seven frangrant Lavender
Eight Clivias flowering
Nine Colours mingling
Ten Carex mounding
Eleven Daffs a-glowing
and twelve Iceberg Roses for the Vase!
Merry Christmas and Happy Gardening
xxx