Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: garden

  • Summer Harvest

       Several months ago I wrote a post about our Easter Egg Tree we made using branches from our little peach tree in the yard. Well, those blooming branches that stayed on the tree made quite a yield this year— and we’ve got pounds of beautiful blushy fruit to show for it!    It’s been…

  • Small Things With Great Love

    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” — Mother Teresa   Sometimes in the morning I go out into the garden, just to look things over. See what seeds have sprouted up. What flowers have waned. Where there is a bare spot that needs something,…

  • Secrets of a Cottage Garden

        Our garden isn’t finished. In fact, it never will be. Like all living things, it will keep growing and changing, new parts will come, old parts will die. Good intentions will go wrong, some things will be a pleasant surprise. The cottage garden, for me, is like a continuous painting project— and one…