March: How Does the Garden Grow?

Here is a little update on my garden.



This little rose is the first one to bloom on the big old rose bush. I cannot wait until the entire bush will be blooming. My other rose bushes have beautiful rose buds as well.



Two newly planted raspberry bushes have tiny buds, too. Perhaps we'll have a few raspberries this year already.



The orange tree is about to start blossoming as well. Hopefully this year we'll have a few oranges (the tree is very young and last year, we only had one orange, which wasn't very tasty, unfortunately).



And finally, here is a picture of my celery and radishes. Because they grow in a pot, the slugs haven't gotten a hold of them yet.

Lavender Bouquet

The other day, I trimmed a lavender bush in my garden, as it grew way too big. The trimmed branched had lots of pretty flowers, so I decided to make a bouquet out of them. To my lavender, I added some green branches from another bush that I trimmed that day. Here is my little lavender bouquet.

Fruit Assortment Plates

I received these lovely dessert plates from my mom. She brought them to the USA all the way from Ukraine. I remember admiring these plates when I was little and my mom kept them in her cupboard. Every plate has a unique fruit picture, which looks as if from a renaissance painting.
There are five small plates (unfortunately one was broken back in Ukraine) and one big serving plate. The plates where made in the GDR (German Democratic Republic), and since the German reunification took place in 1990, I assume these plates are at least twenty years old. My mom, however, says she bought them back in the 70s. It doesn’t really matter how old these plates are; what matters is that I am very happy to own them now. Thank you, mama.










For the first time, I am joining a blog party. I’m linking to “Show and Tell Friday” at Cindy’s blog, called My Romantic Home. I absolutely love her blog, and I am sure once you see it yourself, you will love it too.