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May 2009

Gardening blogs from around the world

by Carolyn Chadwick on May 26, 2009

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I love searching the web and discovering new blogs and useful information on gardening, fashion interior design! In actual fact all things beautifully designed … Through Twitter I stumbled upon Buddy Garden blog about container gardening, lots of photo’s, tips and highlights….

So underneath texst is copied fom her website and I have added her to the list of global bloggers on gardening! Enjoy the read and beautiful tips and stories from other gardners from around the world… very inspiring!

I enjoy reading gardening blogs from around the world. Here are a few that I visit regularly. Are you reading this blog and a garden and lover of beauty, and would like to get posted on my list, let me know? I’d love to hear from you and add you too.

L’Orto Orgoglioso (Lecco, Italy)
India Garden (Saharanpu, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Gardening on Cloud 9 (Hong Kong, China)
You Grow Girl (Toronto, Canada)
GardenJoy4me (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
Buddygarden (USA)
Ramblings of a bare-faced-gardener (France)
The reluctant Garden Designer (Brittain)
Concrete & Honey (Sydney, Australia)
Esther’s boring Garden Blog (UK)
Eden Makers Blog (USA)
InterLeafings (USA, California)

Please do let me know also if you know of other great garden websites or blogs… so we can grow the gardening knowledge even more… and boost the gardening inspiration globally!!! and create beauty worldwide!!!

Love and happy gardening, Carolyn

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Beautiful sea shells in a bed of rose petals

by Carolyn Chadwick on May 23, 2009

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This morning and a couple of days ago, I had collected some rose petals from the Rosa ‘New Dawn’ near the back door. So many were dropping on to the ground, which I thought was a shame.. so I decided to remove the petals from roses that were nearly going to drop! This is an art by itself, judging the right timing… but intuïtively you will know!

On the lounge set table I have a turqoise bowl, collected during a holiday trip to Paros, one of the Greek Cyclade islands, last year, which was perfect for drying the petals…. luckily it was very warm today, and I left them in the bright sunshine…. this afternoon when I came back from the city.. they had dried up beautifully… some more than others, but the fragrance they gave astonished me pleasantly…. gorgeous…

To perk the bowl up a little more I put 3 white sea shells amongst the petals, and hey presto a simple beautiful arrangement was created….

Enjoy and if you have a flowering fragrant rose in your garden then just do the same. You will feel which roses are ready to be collected… their petals just let go easily!!!!

Make sure you do not leave them in the rain, so bring them indoors in evening!!!

Rose petals are designed2b used to make your day more beautiful!

Keep creating beauty around you!

Love Carolyn

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Finished Garden design Bennekom, the Netherlands

May 21, 2009

Went to visit my client in Bennekom, the Netherlands, yesterday to check up on their garden. I had designed it last year and now after 1 year of the garden settling in and growing, I went by to check how the garden was doing and whether my client was satisfied….

It looked stunning… and [...]

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New Gardening Books

May 21, 2009

I would just like to post some new gardening books that I have come across recently. The picture above is called ‘A shelter inthe garden, playhouses, treehouses, gazebos, sheds and other outdoor structures’, by Pierre Nessmann
An inspiring book showing you how to create hidaways in your garden, not only for yourself but also for children [...]

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My beautiful garden update

May 19, 2009

My climbing Rosa ‘New Dawn’has burst open this week… there are so many fragrant flowers I can hardly count them. I have the rose near the back door and near windows… so that when we walk past you always catch a beautiful whift of fragrant delicate perfume! Sweet memories!

Great idea is now to cut [...]

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