Whimsy...

Pansy Tea

I have a few pansies to plant and I thought 

I’d have some fun with them before I do. 

 

I love the artwork of

 Cicily Mary Barker. 

Her sweet flower fairies 

and their accompanying 

poetry is simply Delightsome!

In honor of winter and spring’s garden happy faces, 

I set this tea for you and for me.

I found these sweet Pansy plates last year! They're such fun!

I 'planted' a few Pansies in a trough generally 
used for drywall mud. I saw this used on  
one of Sarah Richardson's shows a while back.

Moss stones and birds were 
added to enhance the garden theme.

I am using my sweet teapot with Wild Violets
 - the color was just right.

At each place setting I put a Pansy 

in one of my green bubble 

Depression Glass goblets.

Also, I used these butterfly napkin rings -
they add just the right touch!

Your visits always bring delight!

I hope this Pansy Tea brings a smile to your face

and brightens your day.

The Song of The Pansy Fairy

Pansy and Petunia,
Periwinkle, Pink -
How to choose the best of them,
Leaving out the rest of them,
That is hard, I think.

Poppy with its pepper-pots,
Polyanthus, Pea -
Though I wouldn't slight the rest,
Isn't Pansy quite the best,
Quite the best for P?

Black and brown and velvety,
Purple, yellow, red;
Loved by people big and small,
All who plant and dig at all
In a garden big.

Thank you so much for your visit, 

I am sharing this post with these Delightsome Blog Parties:

The House in the Roses' Show Off Your Cottage Monday

Lady Katherine's Tea Time Tuesday

The Plumed Pen's Tea for Two

Rose Chintz Tea Time Tuesday

Martha's Favorite Teacup Tuesday

A Breath of Fresh Air's

and Silken Purse's

Teapot and Tea Things

Artful Affirmations Teacup Tuesday

Sweetology's Tea Time Tuesday

Miss Spencer's Teacup Thursday
Between Naps on the Porch's Tablescape Thursday

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Garden Notebook

Second Act

or

Prelude

I was sharing with my neighbor this past weekend that I felt this year my garden was like an orchestra tuning up for a beautiful symphony. I walk around and see the garden filling up with plants and blooms - buds are just at the brink of opening.

Some have made an appearance as if to say - stay a while -there's more to come. 

The Columbine

The Helleboro

The Iris

Jacob's Ladder

Mock Orange

Pansies

The Peonies

The Roses

Queen Elizabeth

Knockout Rose

One of the roses that was given to me by my gardening friend,
my neighbor says he remembers this rose growing in his
grandmother's garden - I hope to identify it this year

Memorial Day - a very fragrant rose - the first few
are very large - it is a little washed out looking in this photo -
direct sunlight - it is really a deeper pink

You will see more of this rose later this evening in my
A Return to Loveliness post

Yellow Roses and Yellow Iris are getting very close to blooming

Coming Attractions

I saved the containers from Rotisserie Chickens

thinking they'd make good mini greenhouses. So far so good.

After the seeds immerged, I placed them outdoors to get morning sun.

I am sharing this post with these garden parties

Tuesday Garden Party
Bloomin Tuesday

Outdoor Wednesday

Cottage Flora Thursday 

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Daffodils

Golden Drops of Sun

I have been watching certain 

daffodils in our garden - thinking they'd 

be the first to bloom. Then I saw

these gorgeous drops of sunlight

already showing their brilliant yellow!

Today is such a gorgeous day! 

With our unusually cold, rainy 

winter a bright-sunlit day

is definitely nourishment to

one's spirit!

Pansies are some of my favorite flowers.

I call them my little happy faces. 

They always make me smile.

I have a lot of work to do. 

Along with the early blooms there's 

the winter weeds.

Our garden was wild when we moved

here and it's a herculean effort

to keep it from going back!

I hope where you are the sun is shining

and that you take a moment to lift

your face to it - smile and give thanks!

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: 

and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Psalm 104:30

I am sharing this post with these Delightsome

Parties

Tuesday Garden Party

Outdoor Wednesday

Fertilizer Friday

Cottage Flora Thursday

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