Showing posts with label succulents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label succulents. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 November 2012

Aspidistra

Aspidistra Garden Centre is one of my absolute favourites in my area. I often go there in search of unusual plants that one will have difficulty to find anywhere else, and of course for some fantastic ideas to "decorate" my garden. Owner Willie Schmidt has a slot on the weekly TV-show Pasella in which he gives very good ideas on creative gardening. See the pictures below to have an idea of the creativeness he gets up to.  If you missed any of these episodes you can catch it on the Pasella website here but also make sure you visit the garden centre near Stellenbosch to see for yourself!!






The latest post on the website is about  veggie gardening in a 1m x 1m pot, here. The Captain and I have been preparing to make our own veggie garden in huge, discarded wooden crates from a wine farm. One idea I've had though, was to try the ordinary plastic crates used by dairies which one can also buy at a plastics retail outlet. Since I have two or three of these around I will follow Willie's advice on the 1m x 1m gardening (on smaller scale of course) and see how successful it is.

Happy day!

Thursday, 6 September 2012

Weddings - wedding favours

When it comes to wedding favours, my personal choice would be something that is not edible and if it must be, then in packaging like glass (see pic below). A small gift that will last for a few months to come, or even longer - just to remind your guests of the special day they shared with you.....

Like delicious Limoncello in beautiful glass bottles
  from here

.....or a small bundle of coloured pencils...
from here

...a handmade heart...
from here

Go green with packets of seeds....
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One of my personal favourites; succulents....
from here

...and a very cute idea; matches in a lovely glass jar.
from here

Have a Happy day!


Sunday, 20 May 2012

Beautiful terrariums

Terrariums have been the rage for some time now and I still marvel at this small, fascinating world, contained in a glass vessel . With winter upon us I've decided to cheer up my sunny kitchen window-sill and put a terrarium (or two...) there. Just looking around at some ideas, I saw some beautiful pictures. Here are some of them, to share with you....

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These are all gorgeous, don't you think?

Happy day!


Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Succulents


This lovely red pot with contrasting green succulents here


Beautiful fountain up-cycled to a planter here


Cute idea to up-cycle an old toolbox here



Lovely pictures of succulent gardening found here


This last one from my own garden; having used a big enamel dish as a planter for my favourite succulents
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