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 🙂
On the Twelve Days of Christmas my Garden gave to me …
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
23 replies on “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
Awesome post. It must have taken ages to find such perfect photos.
Lovely version of the 12 days of Christmas
Marvelous Christine…..this is so wonderfully done…Happy Christmas. I am joining in next Wed. Nothing quite as clever though!!
Great photos!
I love the Fuchsias – I always think of ballerinas when I see the blooms, so ‘dancing’ is exactly right!
Merry Christmas!
That was no easy challenge but you’ve pulled it off beautifully, Christine! Well done! I love the birds bathing! And the white roses, and…ha, you get the idea! Very pretty! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
How clever and enchantingly beautiful too…some ingenious verbs in there too. Happy Happy Christmas – what an uplifting post. Thank you
Beautiful summary of the year, but how can you compete with those chickens in the pool with the human :-)? Seriously, Merry Christmas, Carolyn
Love this Christine, your flowers are stunning! Merry Christmas!! Cheers Julia
The high numbers are the hard ones. But you have already covered the whole twelve. How wonderful your garden looks. Making your mentor proud! It is a fun way to trawl photo archives, like a shaft of sun in the forest, catching the gems.
I would guess this is going to fly high on your stats, as one of your most popular posts?
🙂 Thanks Diana, you are SO sweet!! Glad you are proud (I have a huge smile on my face here!).
PS: Will let you know about the stats.
Each photo was a real treat and it was impossible to pick a favourite. Fabulous post! Have a very Merry Christmas!
You to Bernie!! I LOVE your “Twelve Days posts, your photos are fantastic!
AHHH!!!!! Wow!!!!! How AMAZING!!! THIS – my friend, this is my favourite post EVER!!
What a beautiful collection of photos AND each one painstakingly selected!
FAB! Love it! Well done 🙂
Oh wow! Thanks my friend! Thats so sweet!!
I bet you could also do a “Twelve Days” posts??
Totally love these spectacular photos! I especially love the shot with the two buzzing bees and the close-up shot of the pistils. The way that you captured your garden these past twelve months is especially beautiful. I hope to see some more of your future posts with a bunch of engaging pics. Thanks for sharing such a beautiful year of gardening!
Love this idea. Great job!
Jeannine
I loved it Christine. All twelve days. The ibis had to be a treat to show up. All the photos show how much beauty you have in your garden. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
What a cute idea! Your garden looks so beautiful! The picture of the bees is incredible!
Great post, Christina! Lots of beautiful things have happened in your garden over the past year, and thank you for sharing them with me.
Gorgeous photos!
This was a beautiful post. And may you enjoy a Wonderful Christmas!! 🙂
Very nice Christine! My head hurts thinking about combing through my 2011 photos trying to find specific numbers of things. I think mine would end up being: “a few (something somethings), a few more (something somethings), here’s some (something somethings),” and so on. 🙂
haha, that’s the second time you made me laugh today 🙂
But yes, I hear you. I almost got to the point where I thought of lining up 9 “somethings” to photograph to make up the numbers … 11 and 12 were hard too 🙂