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COLUMBINE (Aquilegia) OSTRICH FERNS (FIDDLEHEADS) ALPINE POPPY WILDFLOWER GARDEN

"To a certain extent we raise a garden as we might a child, putting in the seed, nourishing it and gathering nourishment from it, pruning and weeding its growth, protecting it, loving it, worrying over it." ~ Robert Finch Early May Garden

NOTE FROM KAREN HALL (An Artist's Garden)~ The date Saturday 7 th February The venue VP’s blog and your own blog The event A dinner party ___________________ Guest List: Guest of honor: Karen Hall (Artist, Embroiderer, Designer Maker, and Gardener - Dyffryn Ardudwy , Wales) Vincent van Gogh Henry David Thoreau Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Claude Monet Anne La Flamme Karen Hall Vincent van Gogh Henry David Thoreau Rembrandt Claude Monet Anne La Flamme (Garden Mentor) _______________________ MENU: NASTURTIUMS FILLED with GUACAMOLE CREAMY MOREL SOUP TYROLEAN BEEF TENDERLOIN DEEP DARK CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE (A click on above will take you to the recipe) ~ 'Flow Blue' Dinner Party (click on Flow Blue for history on this charming china ) The 'best of the best' for a night to remember! ______________ Note : A rush to get dinner on the table for my honored guests by 8:00, left much unsaid. First, thanks dear Karen, who honored me at 'Mrs. Grumpy's ...

"Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic an meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. " ~ Karel Capek ~ Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) • Family: Aster (Asteraceae) • Habitat: fields, open woods, roadsides •Height: 1-3 feet • Flower size: 2-3 inches across • Flower color: yellow and dark brown • Flowering time: June to October• Origin: Midwestern U.S. ________________ “If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive." ~ Eleanora Duse

"By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight ." ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman For the garden is not only a place in which to make things grow and to display the beautiful flowers of the earth, but a place that should accord with the various moods of its admirers. It should be a place in which to hold light banter, a place in which to laugh, and, besides, should have a hidden corner in which to weep. ~ Alice Lounsberry ~ Exbury azalia, Oriential poppy, tulip, bleeding heart, trillium, Centaurea Montana, Bearded iris, Scarlet O'hara peony, Rembrandt tulip