What do you think about Tuesday tea?
Mom and I started a garden club...which meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month. Normally, I'm back by 1:30, but we've decided to start doing some garden tours, which will take longer.
So, what do you all think about Tuesday tea? We can talk about what we did last weekend and what we're planning for the next one. And Tuesdays are a good afternoon for a little pick-me-up. Let me know if you like the idea : )
Not my photo...but very pretty.
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8 years agoI love the idea and will do my best to attend!
For our first tea, I'll be using some of my Old Country Roses by Royal Doulton.
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8 years agoI will see how the day goes. Appointments and some shopping. Hoping it all goes well. Tues is fine with me. Any day is fine even after noon tea on any day some one can make it. My crazy lilac with white and purple on the same branch. This a start from our last house and the mother bush also did this.
I will look for a fancy tea cup and saucer. I think I might have cut them all up for mosaics. :'(
Lavender Lass thanked Shades_of_idaho- 8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
- 8 years ago
We just got home and I unloaded the two bags of cement for making cement leaves of my rhubarb. I also bought more potting garden soil for my containers and also the bases of the cement leaves first. No sand available.
I am drinking my tea from a mug. No time yet to get to the loft for a pretty cup and saucer.
OH LL I NEED you to help me with my fairy garden. It is going to be in pots I guess or maybe I should just use one big round tank to do it in the potager garden at the far end. Tank is maybe 4 foot across. I never measured it. BUT BUT BUT Friday I finally found my fairy and a merlin to go with her. I have a gazebo but it is very small so need to make it look like it is far away up on a hill that the tank does not have. LOL So this is all going to be miniature. OK I think the tank is it. Easier to just put some flowers in the tippy buckets. There are some succulents planted in the tank and I forget what else it there. all of that can be changed. Like landscaping a mini garden.
My Fairy and her Merlin. Her arms and legs head and eye balls are all on springs so she will dance in the wind.
Soooooooooo I need to write to Joe's sister on news of the day. :'(. He is going back on chemo a different flavor than he has had so maybe it will help. Hope so and it does not make him too sick.
Enjoy your tea folks I am on the go again.
Lavender Lass thanked Shades_of_idaho - 8 years ago
LL do you see the round green tank by the lilac and fence? This is the hopeful Fairy garden. What do you think??? Will it make a Fairy Garden? That is Columbine growing at the base outside the tank. Hahaha and a great big dandelion growing in the tank I pulled out already. Lots of succulents. I can pull some out or re-arrange and add different varieties to. I have then all over this place.
I found a couple more things to add to it this afternoon. Got to get to bed.
Lavender Lass thanked Shades_of_idaho - 8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
Steph- I hope you feel better. I love lilacs : )
Shades- That tank will make an excellent fairy garden. And your fairy is quite unique! Your Merlin is cute, too.
Here are a couple of pictures with succulents in fairy gardens. Hope these help!
- 8 years ago
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