Thursday, June 03, 2010

Mummy's "Garden"

Coming from England where the whole country is a garden, we had to have something of our old life here on Ile Bellevue. But when Mum bought the condo one of the appealing aspects of it was the fact that there was no garden to maintain; no grass, no weeds, no over grown trees, etc. But something was missing. Our white wicker chairs seemed lonely. But instead of going over the top, Mum kept it contained and only filled her blue pots and a few hanging baskets. Something new she added to her garden was a hanging basket of cascading strawberries that have found a home in our bird bath. So Mum got her bright, happy flowers, but no weeds, or grass to cut!
We love looking out onto the once plain balcony and admiring Mum's hard work. The morning sun shine warms the plants but they aren't scorched as the sun moves around and out of the direct line by the time it heats up. We especially love watching the grass and begonias resting on the air conditioning unit, dancing when ever the unit turns on.

This is Mum's side of the balcony, she sits in the left hand chair with her feet up on the foot stool (the orange and yellow things).
This is my side.
One of the hanging baskets with geraniums, and lobelia, and ageratum.
Another hanging basket.
The Hanging basket, that's not hanging...
The strawberries! You can see a nice fat, juicy one growing just above the right hand rim of the bowl.
The dancing grass and begonias on the A/C unit!

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