Sunday 21 August 2016

Spring in the garden

Hellebores watercolour
On Saturday it was garden weeding day.
Hellebores from the garden
Henk was doing the hard work, chain sawing in the paddock the tree he felled last weekend and working on our new garden beds.
Only a few weeks away and we can plant the first seed potatoes and I can sow peas and carrots.
We still get heavy frosts some night, so I have to be patient sowing directly into the soil.
I have already started sowing under glass, mostly flowers for the summer garden.
This year I want to grow more cut flowers for my posies I sell at my plant stall outside the gate.
While I was weeding I noticed the Hellebores, each winter they flower very quietly under shrubs and their flower heads are tucked away between the leaves.
I love Hellebores, the colours are so delicate and I have purple and green Hellebores in my garden.
They don't last long in the vase inside, so I picked a few and painted a little watercolour to make into a card.
In the afternoon I took Ollie, my dog for a walk and I noticed the first Spring lambs in the paddocks and  I also took a photograph of Somerset Cob Cottage that was build around 1860 and it housed a family with 11 children!
Now it is a little museum.
Every Sunday I take part in Sunday Sketches.
Somerset Cob Cottage

10 comments:

  1. Your hellebores painting is so lovely! Enjoy your upcoming Spring as we say goodbye to summer here, sigh.

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    1. Thank you Christine for your comment, you can look forward to nights in front of the fire!

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  2. love your flower paintings ... so many lovely colors!

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    1. Thank you, I always visit your blog too and enjoy your drawings and paintings.

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  3. Your paintings are so pretty and sweet...the baby and with its mama so dear...and the little cottage a flash from our past. I bet the inside is really special with all the period pieces in it. Now, those weeds....I did not think you all had weeding in New Zealand. If only you all were so lucky :-) genie

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    1. Hi Genie, I love your comments! You always read my blog posts and it is so nice to have blogger friends I can share my daily life with!

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  4. Your Hellebores painting is lovely, Marijke! Such pretty flowers. :)

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    1. Thank you Serena, I love all the different colours in Hellebores, from very green, to white to very purple.

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  5. Such pretty flowers...a lovely job!! I love your blog banner too!

    Hugs Giggles

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    1. Thank you, the blog banner was a painting I did during a watercolour class of the model. I think she looks very French!

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