Our Garden Blog Posts

Our bodies are our gardens,to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce,set hyssop and weed up thyme,supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many – either to have it sterile with idleness...

Taken in Our Garden in Italy - November 21st 2012Macro Monday...

One of the last Zinnia's in flower in Our Garden in Italy - November 2012This week I am joining the Blo-Ma flowers and Macro meme.

Rustic Fence made by my husband in Our Garden in Italy.Fridays Fences...

Photo taken November 21st 2012.I went for a walk this afternoon planning to find something suitable for ABC Wednesday, which this week is for the Letter S. I got no further than halfway down our own garden when I came across the perfect choice,...

Photo taken in our garden November 2012.This photo is taken from my post today on News From Italy, I do hope some of you will be interested in visiting the link to see my other photos of mushrooms found in our garden recently.I am also...

Mushrooms, Toadstools, Fungi, Funghi, whatever you know them as, many varieties are poisonous and in Italy it is advisable to take them to your local Health authority for identification before even considering eating them. In fact loca...

Taken in Our Garden in Italy 03/11/12ABC WednesdayToday I am joining in the ABC Wednesday Meme for the Letter R with a favourite rose from our garden.

I am very excited to announce that News From Italy has been accepted by Expatblogs.com as a contender for one of their awards. May I please ask you to leave a comment there about News From Italy? This would be very much appreciated and help to improv...

Photo taken in Our Garden October 18th 2012An autumnal favourite of ours and we enjoyed them freshly roasted in an open fire over the weekend.Today I am participating in two memes. Macro Monday and Inspiring Photography ...

Taken in Our Garden 18th October 2012The wonderful Autumnal sunshine that welcomed us home from a trip has been showing the garden off and we have so many apples both on the ground and still on the tree. Everyone else around us also has plenty, wish...

                         We grow Kiwi in our garden and this photo was taken on September 21st 2012, they will be ready to harvest in early December. The full name is Kiwifruit ( A...

I am participating in two memes today, Flower Art Friday and Photo Art Friday, have a lovely weekend everyone, see you next week, with more photos from My World.

 Mandevilla Splendens, or Dipladenia Splendens is an evergreen vine from the Mandevilla Genus and is a native of Brazil. It climbs up to three metres by twining itself around things. Earlier in the summer we had guests buy us this beautiful...

                                 Wikipedia tells me that those of you that do not live in the UK, Australia, South Africa or New Zealand, will know this plant a...

No Swallowtail but there is another insect!One recent afternoon I spent some time happily chasing Swallowtail Butterflies amongst the Lucerne in our garden trying to get some photos.Wikipedia tells me that those of you that do not live in t...

July 13th 2012It has been an exceptionally hot and dry summer in Italy this year, what a year of extremes it has been in fact!  We have virtually given up on our orto (vegetable garden) this summer as despite copious watering it is a d...

Thankyou for the comments on my latest header which was taken in our garden last month, it is also the first photo in this post. As so many of you seem to enjoy my garden posts, looking at the statistics I am surprised how many, I decided t...