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Some flowers in bloom which my little daughter and I planted.
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I love Alyssum and have it growing all over.
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This is an Australian Tree fern. I adore it so much. Apparently they only grow 2 cm per year. The previous owners planted it here and it’s still going strong.
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A project my little daughter and I are busy with. We planted the flowers a weekend ago, and decided the the broken bench must stay. We planted Sweet peas around it in the hopes that the sweet peas will grow up the bench and would attract the fairies. 🙂
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Lavender. What can I say, I love Lavender and have huge bushes of it growing all over.
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The garden frog who seems to spend his life pondering.
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I deliberately walk on the Penny-royal just for the smell. Don’t you just love Penny-royal too?
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A little fishpond in the front which needs some work. The frogs are loving it though.
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The big fish pond in the back.
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A work in progress. This little waterfall runs into the fishpond you saw in (3) I’m trying to get it to look as natural as possible. I love having flowing water around. Love the sound and the feel.
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Lavender after a shower and Penny-royal. Heaven. You have a lovely garden and frog friends have personality. 🙂
Thanks Tess. I put the two frog friends there for my little daughter when she was much younger to amuse her, but they have grown on us, so they have stayed. I don’t usually go in for that sort of garden ornament. Thank you for the visit 🙂
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🙂 I don’t like big, obtrusive sorts of ornaments in the garden but little one that peek out when you’re not expecting them are cute. Frogs I like. 🙂
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Thanks for the inspiration! My garden/yard right now is pretty much a blank (and overgrown weedy) slate, so I can only hope I have something half as lovely to show off by this time next year. Beautiful!
Good luck and enjoy every minute of building your garden, eschudel 🙂 Thank you for the visit.
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I’m dying for jealousy!!! (Joke) well, I absolutely adore your garden, sooooo lovely! I love lavender and the keeper, as well! 🙂
I’m so glad you do 🙂 Thank you for the visit 🙂
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Absolutely lovely Michelle! I am a fan of Alyssum and Lavender too!
So glad you like it too, Nancy. Thanks for the visit 🙂
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Very beautiful Michelle. Your garden is very peaceful. Thanks for sharing it with us.
It is peaceful, than you so much Gail 🙂
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Now that beautiful garden has lots of love intertwined among the stems and pedals.
It has, thank you Harold 🙂
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Beautiful, M.You must show more photos of the fish. They look spectacular!
I will. I battled this morning with the reflection on the water. I’ll try taking a decent pic again tomorrow. The big ones are Koi and there are a few smaller comet fish in there too. There is a very stunning black and orange Koi, but he is very shy. I’d love to get a good shot of him 🙂
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Do the koi have names?
sadly, they are nameless… 😉
Then maybe they deserve to be named?
I gave all our fish names of planetary moons.
Thus; Titan, Oberon, Ganymede, Io, etc.
A few are named after literary characters. One, who only has a single eye, is called Pallol, after a Julian May character.
I can’t claim they respond directly, but they all come to the near side of the pond fro breakfast when I open the door leading onto the stoep every morning. 🙂
I love that you named your fish, Ark. You’ve given me some thing to think about. I also think they know who their food giver is 🙂
It’s said Koi are the easiest fish to tame and I have heard or read a few tales where individual fish have responded to their given name.
Never seen this but I reckon it is quite likely.
I found naming the fish makes them more part of the menagerie. Might sound nuts but there you go. Of course it also hurts a bit more when one of them dies.
But this infrequent if their living conditions ( water quality being number one) are sorted out.
But you know all this stuff, of course, so who am I preaching to !
BTW. Do your spawn? And have any baby fish survived?
Some of our fish are getting on a bit.
One, Titan, is solid black. I bought him as a gift for the Missus. He was a baby, about the size of my hand.
Cost 400 rand! he is quite a special fish.
He has never been sick or picked up any sort of disease and shows no signs of slowing down.
He is 16 years old!
WOW! 16 is a wonderful age. I have a post which I did sometime ago (will find the post) where one of the koi was dying, I put him in the bath and managed to get him going again, took quite a while; he is still alive now and he always comes swimming to the top when I go there. I actually chat with him, as daft as that sounds. My fish do spawn, that is why I seem to have so many I think.
A beautiful garden you have Michelle. And so nice that your little daughter is getting connect with nature! Way to go.
Cheers 🙂
Thanks so much Dilip 🙂
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Lovely collage of photos of your garden. Would love to take a walk through the garden with you! I can smell the perfume of the lavender … Nice post, Michelle. 🙂
Thanks so much, Iris. The Lavender smells divine. I have huge clumps of it in the house too. 🙂
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Lovely, I can just smell it now!! Smile and hugs. And to your littlest too for her special touch to the garden!
Thank you, she does have a special touch in garden.
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Stunning pictures as always! I need to re-do all of my landscaping. It is 16 years old and needs to have some structure put back in…things go wild after a few years of growing. We have lots of autumn clematis on the fence for screening…now it is trying to grow everywhere! Sweet pea is one of my very favorites, although I have not been able to get it to grow in my yard. Might have to try again. 🙂
Good luck with your landscaping Amber. Hope the sweet peas grow when you try them again 🙂
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What a beautiful garden 🙂
Thank you Anna 🙂
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Your garden looks so perfectly lovely, Hopestar. Mr Frog on guard, and the little pondering froggie are really cute. What a joy it must be to spend time in your little paradise. 🙂 xx
It is a joy ad 🙂 Thanks so much.
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Lovely garden! I could use your green thumb in my backyard!
Thanks so much 🙂
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I’ll walk with you any time. I love your goofy frogs and all the other wonders of the garden. 🙂
Thanks so much Doran, that would be a nice walk 🙂
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That is an amazing garden. I love the frogs and the fish! It’s so perky, but at the same time peaceful…
Thanks Genevieve, it has its paeaceful spots and then as you said, the quirky 🙂
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Lovely garden and equally lovely is your post…!!! You are bringing nature closer to your daughter, which is a great stuff….Wish your garden grows more and more, perpetually…!!!
Thank you so much 🙂
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What a fabulous garden. It must be a great sanctuary for you, sitting there and enjoying your hard work. 😀
I am so grateful for my garden, Raewyn 🙂
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What a wonderful garden, Hope! I love lavender and allysum, too. But I don’t love WP toady as its broken links are giving me fits. I’m just leaving my link in the comments for those who’d like to visit: http://sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2014/05/02/weekly-photo-challenge-spring/.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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Sorry about the WP problems. Have a lovely weekend too 🙂
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Your garden looks like a little slice of heaven and I bet feels like it, too. xx
It does feel wonderful 🙂
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What a beautiful garden you have… I love lavender and Penny royal… but my favourite is water features, nothing quite like the sound of running water to set the mind at peace…
I agree with you Bulldog. I love the sound of running water.
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Your garden is beautiful, like a public garden, youshould charge for peple to see it. 🙂 I am sure it is hard work too! Keep it up and we look forward to see more! So beautiful!
Thank so much Ute, so glad you like it 🙂
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How beautiful my sweet friend…
Andro xxxx
Thank you, Andro 🙂
Wishing you a lovely weekend.
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I love your garden Michelle 🙂
Andro xxxx
Thank you 🙂
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Beautiful images of a beautiful garden!
Thanks so much Rene 🙂
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What a beautiful garden, Hope. I love the idea of the seat. It’s to beautiful to get rid of it and I can imagine how it will get when it’s full of green and flowers…so romantic 🙂 Pawkisses 🙂
Thanks you so much angel. I will take a photo of the bench if the plan works out 🙂
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Thanks for the invitation to walk in your beautiful garden. It really is quite lovely; a work of art 🙂
So glad you enjoyed it Andrew 🙂
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Beautiful pics and garden! I want to have a garden, to be involved with it, to nurture it, but, it’s too much work. I’m lazy, by choice. My brothers and sisters garden very well, maybe I will one day.
Maybe you will oneday 🙂
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Loved the tour! I’m moving to an apartment soon and my garden is the main thing I will miss.
Maybe a few pot plants around your new apartment will help? Wishing you well with the move 🙂
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I did! 🙂
Hope you enjoyed the walk 🙂
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