Greetings from Plum Cottage this first day of January 2025. I hope you all had safe holidays and pray that 2025 will be a blessed year for you.
The fireworks were not as bad as I expected last night and really only lasted about 30-45 minutes before all was quiet once again. In years past, fireworks have lasted till around 2 am. I did see some wonderful sparkly colors happening out my scullery window and they made up for all of the noise.
The header photo is of the garlic vine covering my wash house. There is also Hamelia patens, bougainvillea, Alamo vine, and a couple other vines I can't think of the names of at the moment. The garlic vine blooms several times a year and it is not the flowers that smell of garlic, but the leaves when you brush up against or crush them. I've had this vine for many, many years. I love it. Except it does grow pretty fast.
Here are a couple of pictures taken in August 2023 when it all got a hair cut.
Here's the way it looks now from inside the secret garden.
This is taken from the driveway.
Here is a closeup of these beautiful flowers.
Here is a link from Hot Tropicals with info about this vine. I live in zone 10a s.e. FL. Garlic Vine
Well, that's it for this first day of 2025. I saw a hummingbird today, lots of butterflies flitting about, and I received an invitation from a new young friend, to go to an orchid festival on the 19th, which I am looking forward to. Being able to see clearly all of the wonderful colors will be absolutely wonderful. I am excited.
During the holidays I watched a wonderful movie 'A Cinderella Christmas Ball'. I want to watch it again, it was really good. I will close this post with a line from the movie.
"Every day is a gift from God
wrapped in new paper."
Let's be thankful and enjoy each new day that we are blessed with.
Have a blessed 2025.
FlowerLady
3 comments:
Hi Lorraine! It's good to see you back in blogland. I hope that you have a healthy and happy 2025! God bless you in the new year! See you again soon.
I'm going to look for that movie before they take the Christmas movies off the air. I'm sure that will be right around the corner, hopefully I have time to watch it.
I stayed up late on New Year's Eve only because of the fireworks. My poor Beulah is so afraid of fireworks. Last Fourth of July I had to go out with her in the evening after dark if she needed to go potty for at least a month. They can be very frightening to our furry friends. When I was a child all the fireworks were set off by the fire department in a city park but now in our state people can buy them and they're shut off all over the neighborhoods it's really quite scary especially when it's a dry summer and fires can start from them. It's funny how our perspective changes on things once you're an adult. I don't love fireworks anymore. They're pretty but the dangers outweigh the pretty in my opinion.
Have a sweet New Year wishing you good health and blessings from the Lord.
An orchard show sounds like a lovely Winter break even if you really don't have cold winters. The garlic vine is blooming so pretty. I wish you a very Happy New Year and hope you post more often of your secret garden.
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