June 17, 2011
In The Secret Garden…
Everywhere you look is a gift…
(Photo: c. Pamela J. Leavey 2011)
June 16, 2011
My mother had the the most amazing gardens when I was a child. She loved to be outdoors gardening and her labor of love always showed in our yard. That love for gardening is something that was shared among other members of her family and passed down in generations.
The Secret Garden is nestled in Newburyport and it belongs to my cousin who spends each day working in her garden paradise, tending to her perrenials with love and devotion.
When I have the time to visit with my cousin in the Secret Garden, I am transported to a place of peace and always feel a sense of being home. As the love of gardening has been passed down through generations of women in my family, so to have perrenials been passed along and kept blooming for generations. The Secret Garden has iris and peonies that belonged to both my mother and my aunt, even my grandmother.
My mother would tell me as a child that nothing was more important than tending the earth. She knew the connection of our need to treat the Mother [Earth] with love and respect…
(Photo: c. Pamela J. Leavey)
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June 12, 2011
The weather in the Newburyport area is chilly and rainy on this mid-June day, but just a couple of days ago there were butterflies in the Secret Garden:
(Photo: c. Pamela J. Leavey 2011 @ the Secret Garden in Newburyport, MA)
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June 11, 2011
In the Secret Garden…
(Photo: c. Pamela J. Leavey 2011 @ the Secret Garden in Newburyport, MA)
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June 7, 2011
I ran across a lovely little paradise of poppies in Newburyport the other day. I went back with my camera 2 days later…
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May 21, 2011
I took an old chair and placed it my front garden to create a bird station. The chair is visible from my desk and gives me hours of pleasure watching the birds. My cats both love it too, as they sit in the windows watching the birds come an go. Yesterday, Pandora spent most of the day at one end or the other of my desk watching birds and chipmunks at the feeder:
To create the bird station I tied a small bird house on the back of the chair with jute, and then laid large strips of bark from an old stump on the seat area of the chair (the caning was gone) and tied a pagoda shaped birdhouse onto the seat. I also added some bare branches for perches for the birds. On the large rocks in my garden I placed large shallow oval aluminum container that I weighted down with small rocks from the garden and filled it with water – it makes a fabulous bird bath!
I use songbird blend bird feed. The birds love it…
(Photo: c. Pamela J. Leavey 2011)
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