A Storybook Life

I wanted to share a recent letter from our email bag. Bill needed some help coming up with a few creative ideas for his new cottage garden project. He is trying to pull together a little cottage garden complete with raised beds and a Victorian style chicken coop, where an old above ground swimming pool [...]

Once upon a time…
There was a beautiful garden, found tucked away, deep in a wooded valley.
Journey with me through this wondrous secret garden treasure.
This is the story of Longwood, as seen through my eyes…

* All pictures by Pearl Sanborn (that’s me
I was very thankful to be able to spend the day at Longwood [...]

I don’t know how it is in your bit of the world, but in our little forest & surrounding village, the landscape is starting to become radiant with color. It’s almost as if a painter is standing above us, and with quick strokes of his brush, he’s changing everything around us into large swatches of [...]

“Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.”
Song of Solomon 7:12
There is something so romantic about a vine that is dripping with clusters of ripe grapes! Sight, smell, taste, thought, texture… [...]

Nothing says welcome like a beautiful wreath!

Wreaths are beautiful anytime of year, but during the Autumn season, you can fill your wreath with anything found in nature for a wonderful look! You don’t have to spend any money, and using items found around your home & garden, you will have a georgeous wreath in [...]