tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21456894665264165792011-12-16T21:02:27.734-05:00A blog about visits to gardens and all kinds of other spots in between. Sometimes,along the way, God speaks to us in the garden...Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11028619535384593409noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145689466526416579.post-20025785580853893382011-08-26T09:30:00.001-04:002011-08-26T09:30:02.722-04:00

Last time we talked about Psalm 23 and how the shepherd provides for the sheep.  I introduced you to my friend Louise and her sheep farm.  I just have to tell you another cute story from Louise that brings another scripture verse to life, this time from the New Testament.      Louise had to continuously lead her sheep from one field to another so they could have clean fresh pasture land. 

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The Shepherd – Part I          I’m sitting on my back porch listening to the locusts hum and the birds call.  My lawn is a lush green carpet after all that voluminous rain.  As I look at how the rain brought the grass back to life after the long drawn out heat wave and drought, I find my mind’s eye traveling to a beautiful little farm setting.  As I walk along the old dirt road, I can envision

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The New York Botanical Gardens In June my husband and I had the pleasure of going on a bus trip to see the New York Botanical Gardens.  Who would think that such a beautiful site bursting with nature lies right in the middle of the city!  It sure was hot that day.  But inside the conservatory were some beautiful plants. Click here to view these pictures larger

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     Last Thursday was a gorgeous day. My husband and I traveled, with our daughter, son-in-law, and grandson, out to Lancaster County.  We stopped at a cute little farm that offers cart rides pulled by miniature horses.  Since horses are my favorite animal, I was excited to see my grandson enjoy this new experience.  I was all about taking photographs.  By the time we left, I was ready to

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Barley Mill Road in Greenville, De is the site of Mt. Cuba Center Inc., the former home of Mr. and Mrs. Lamont du Pont Copeland. This beautiful estate has become an educational opportunity of discovery. Over 1900 plant species, varieties, and cultivars on 600 acres of breathtaking gardens entice visitors into the world of conservation and native plants. I traveled with the Pottstown Area Garden

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The Pottstown Area Garden Club 2011 Flower Show was a huge success. In spite of all the rain that continually cascaded over the plants all week, members of the club and residents of Frederick Mennonite Community still were able to harvest some beautiful blooms from their gardens. The Pottstown Area Garden Club is celebrating its 75th year as a federated garden club. It is a member of District

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     It is 6:45 am and it has been raining cats & dogs for at least the last hour.  I lay in bed listening to the rain and wondering how this will affect the upcoming flower show scheduled for today and tomorrow.  The Pottstown Area Garden Club is hosting a Standard Flower Show at the Frederick Mennonite Community this weekend.  There is no cost to come and enjoy the displays.  It is free and

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Spring is Here! It’s been a tough winter. Lots of snow storms. And then rain that seemed to come daily. I haven’t been under the weather, just busy with work and family. Some of my family members had health issues and so I got bogged down with life and writing came last. So I have some blogging to catch up on! Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at a meeting of the Huntingdon Valley

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I enjoy going on various house tours in the area and then writing about them for all to get a glimpse of the beauty found on each tour. A few weeks ago I went on the Boyertown Holiday House Tour with some family members and we had so much fun! Since Boyertown Area Senior High School is where I graduated from, I always run into someone I know and haven't seen for ages. This was a great tour and

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Suzanne Geiss has a beautiful garden. I love all of the Impatiens she has growing all around her home. She tells me most of them grew where they are, on their own from last year. She truly has a green thumb. But that's not all she is good at....she is a product designer, a children's book author, a speaker, and an encourager. To read more about her click on the article title below. Local author

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     At a garden club luncheon last week one of the dishes served was this delicious salad with apples.  I asked my friend Doreen Duncan if I could share her wonderful recipe on my blog and she agreed.  As I ate this salad it made me think of my friend Toni Myers and her wonderful apple orchard.  She has all kinds of apple varieties available for purchase and her store supports missionaries

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     Outside my window is a divine dogwood tree. It is already starting to turn its leaves into some wonderful warm red tones. The tree is filled with tiny red berries. I’ve always heard that birds love the red berries and use them as food. But I had never actually seen any birds feeding from my tree.      Today changed all that. I don’t have a photograph, as it all happened too fast, and I wasn

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     A visit to a delightful garden brought me some "sage" advice.  Howard and Ann Sage shared their artistic impressions with some fellow gardners on a hot day in August.  In spite of the drought and heat their garden was green and fruitful.  I found tomatoes, beans, squash, and herbs growing in well mulched and watered beds.  The plants all looked healthy and happy and ......deliciously Yummy!

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It's been a hot, humid,incredibly dry summer.  Many gardens are feeling the heat and just don't look so good even with heavy watering.   So, I decided to take a break from gardening and go visit the zoo instead.  I thought I might find some nice gardens at one of the zoos but that didn't happen.  Their gardens were feeling the heat as well! But we gardeners enjoy all of nature's beauty. 

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     My potting shed was a disaster!  It was filled with junk from one end to the other.  There wasn't even a path to walk through to get to anything.  I felt like I was a candidate for the tv program Clean House.  Neicy Nash would have given me a scolding.      My 18 month old grandson, Austin, looked in the door and said "Trash!"  Trash is his favorite word and he revels in looking at any book

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     My family background includes ancestors with Celtic origins.  Great grandfather was from the beautiful Emerald Isle and Great grandmother was from Scotland.  No one knows how they met so many years ago but it is sometimes fun to dream about.  I think about visiting those lands.  I would love to view some gardens over there.     The closest I could come to visiting Scotland, so far, was in

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Visiting the Jersey shore is always a pleasure.  I love walking the boards and just watching the waves crash.  The force of the waves reminds me that only God can control nature.  His design is so Awesome! On the first weekend of June 2010 Ocean City held its 38th annual flower show on the boardwalk.  I love flower shows, whether large or small.  This one was not as large as the Philadelphia

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The Song of Solomon takes place in a garden.  A beautiful love story.   Those who love Jesus are called the Bride of Christ.  Someday He will tell us "Come away my Beloved" and we will so happily go to Him.  I found this video on You Tube and thought it was beautiful.  I hope you enjoy it.

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"On The Way to Cape May"...... Yes, we sang as we drove and we stopped along the way.  I had been wanting to visit this nursery in Franklinville ever since Lorrarine (the owner) came to speak at one of our garden club meetings.  She is a delightful person, always willing to share her wisdom and tips for the garden.  She knows tons and tons about herbs and I hope to post a link to one of her

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Berksmont News: Serving Berks County:  Spring Comes to Bucks County Posted using ShareThis I don't recall exactly how I found out about the Bucks County Garden and Home Show.  Last year was my first time to visit the show.  I found it enthralling.  This was a place to make a lot of gardening connections.  I met people from other garden clubs and met a few master gardeners as well.  I felt as if

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Berksmont News: Serving Berks County:  Passport to the World Posted using ShareThis This year's Philadelphia Flower Show was full of some amazing floral creations.  Click on the link above to read the article published in The Community Connection.  This was the first year I went across the street to the Farmer's Market to eat lunch.  They have a huge variety of food choices plus homemade baked

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The Garden Wayfarer: Gone to pot - Community Connection - Berksmont News Posted using ShareThis How many of you have used household items as decor or plant containers in your gardens?  I'd love to hear about your ideas.  Just click on the link above to see some unique ideas I've come across.

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Loving the subject of Biblical Gardens as I do, I sometimes surf the web for info on this subject.  I enjoy looking at photos that people take of gardens in general.  I came across this video on youtube that I thought was nicely done and hoped you would enjoy visiting the coolness of the garden and the fragrance of faith in Jesus.  Just click on the title of my post above and it will take you to

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Christian Devotions Daily Devotions: Visit their site to read the devotion "Deception".

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All this snow is so good for the earth.  It blankets the plants and gives them moisture over a long period of time.  Hopefully all of this wonderful, beautiful snow will assure us of a drought free summer.  All this snow also makes me think of the song that goes..."whiter than snow, yes whiter than snow.  Now wash me and I will be whiter than snow."

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The Garden Wayfarer: The beauty of the season - Community Connection - Berksmont News Posted using ShareThis

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Another kind of seed...             On a visit to the Montgomery County Bookmobile this week I came across a very interesting book.  It is entitled The Prayer Shawl Companion by Janet Bristow & Victoria A. Cole-Galo, and published by The Taunton Press.             It is actually a book of knitting patterns for prayer shawls and since I have been studying the Jewish prayer shawl called a Tallit,

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This is the kind of garden we gardeners dream of.  This is the garden of Mr & Mrs Hartman in North Coventry, Pottstown.  Mary Belle has laid her garden out with lovely brick paths in between the rows.  She has a huge variety of plants in luscious colors. By Pat Moyer DSC_0448.JPG These pictures were sent with Picasa, from Google. Try it out here: http://picasa.google.com/

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The Garden Wayfarer: Starting your seeds - Community Connection - Berksmont News Posted using ShareThis

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I think I received about 10 garden catalogues so far for 2010.  I love paging through these to see all the beautiful plants.  It is so difficult to decide just which seeds to select each year.  It is fun to try new varieties and see how well they do in my location. Let me know which garden catalogues you receive and which ones are your favorites.  And...why are they your favorites?  What new

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     The beginning of a new year is the time we like to think of new resolutions.  What will we do differently?  What will we try to do better?  The way things are in this economy we all like to think about saving money.  Gardening can help you with that.  If you grow your own fruits and vegetables you can save money on food, not to mention that they taste delicious when you pick them straight

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The Garden Wayfarer: PAGC Holiday House Tour - Community Connection - Berksmont News Posted using ShareThis

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Hanukkah John 10:22 NLT    It was now winter, and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication.       Nine lights on the hanukkyah shine in the darkness.  As I gaze at the flickering flame I think of Jesus and all He taught us as He walked on earth.  Jesus was Jewish and he celebrated the Festival of Dedication also known as the Festival of Lights.  On the Jewish

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Let’s try some homemade Hearty Fall Soup     Fall is the perfect time to make a delicious homemade soup for your family.  My daughter passed on this recipe to me from a friend of hers, so I’m not sure who to give credit to for the original recipe (I changed it a little bit), but I know you will heartily enjoy this delicious concoction.      Start by putting together this dry soup mix which you

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     On a recent day trip I happened upon a quaint little craft sale. Beautiful fall arrangements, signs, and harvest decorations were on display with a line of people anxious to purchase their favorite item. I didn’t make a full inspection of everything available as, this time, I didn’t feel inclined to make a purchase. But a few things caught my eye and set me to thinking.      A cute little

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A drive in Lancaster County makes a great day trip for the fall. Dad wanted to visit his brother, Uncle George, in Ephrata. Charlie and I decided to enjoy taking Dad out for the day. On the way to see Uncle George we stopped at a couple of farm stands and on the way home we stopped for a walk in Nolde Forest. The wonder of God's handiwork cries out to us in the beauty of the day. It was a drink

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Another favorite stop off along the Jersey Shore is a shop called Wild Bird Accents. The first time I drove by I notied all of the bird houses on display out front. That made me stop on the way back from my one of my favorite gardens, Leaming's Run. After going into the shop I noticed all of the driftwood. They have driftwood all over the place made into all kinds of items for the garden lover.

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Ahhh. Vacation time. Relaxing at the beach. Well, I don't always relax at the beach just because I go to the seashore. There are so many other fun things to do and even at the shore you can visit beautiful gardens. One of my favorite places down the Jersey shore is Leamings Run Gardens. It is a private garden open to the public. It is quiet and peaceful. A beautiful place to go. It is at least 5

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A few weeks back my husband and I took a trip to Pittsburgh. On the way there I just had to stop at a shop in Mechanicsburg that I found out about through garden club avenues. Our club had Susanna Reppert as a speaker and her late mother, Bertha Reppert, many years before her. Susanna is the current owner of The Rosemary House and Gardens selling all kinds of herb plants and everything to do

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Grocery shopping has become an unwelcome task. I just have so many other things to do that seem more important than grocery shopping. And everything is so expensive. But did you know that even while grocery shopping, one can't get away from gardening. What does grocery shopping have to do with gardening? You might be surprised to know that you can find lots of things that have to do with

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This is one of the gardens I visited while in North Carolina. Most people probably think of the Vanderbilt Estate as a mansion. Of course, it is that. But the gardens there are absolutely fabulous. Not only can you view many species of plants but they add a little fun with their whimsy in the garden. I couldn't get over this pink flamingo! I thought of my friend Cheryl when I took this picture.

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Finally! It is nice out, the sun is shinning and there is no immediate threat of rain. We have had rain in this area of PA for weeks now. My plants are waterlogged and some just don't look too good because of it. I actually had to repot some of them into a more sandy soil. Well, I guess I have to admit that those I repotted actually needed sandy soil anyway. But if it hadn't rained so very much

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