This Week's Finds

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Wishing you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day, dear friends! I hope you’re having a fun-filled weekend, wherever you are. The first official day of Spring is just around the corner, can you believe it? Of course, I couldn’t be happier! There’s only so many bleak winter days a girl can take before the old mood starts bouncing up and down, and the need for sunshine and color and flowers becomes overwhelming. Project-wise it’s been a pretty low key winter at our house (i.e. we’ve been lazy), with more planning and daydreaming than actual doing, but I now feel the need to get out there and play, and be productive and care for my garden once again.

Image via @figdesigncompany

At times I feel like I’m the world’s slowest renovator, with months if not years before my ideas become reality. I’ve learnt to be grateful and welcome the time because it gives me the opportunity to carefully think things through, and plan the course of our renovation. But the garden has been one of the trickiest projects for me to handle so far, the one with the greatest learning curve, and the biggest challenges. (I’m still aching for those hydrangea shrubs I couldn’t resuscitate during our first summer at the house, and we’re still waiting to get on our contractor’s good side and have him and his team help us clear out the overgrown vegetation at the back.) Anyway, while renovations can be lessons in patience, there is always hope, and I am beyond inspired by Sarah Raven’s class on cut and come again flowers, as well as by so many great Instagram accounts I’ve been following. This image (above) by Ash Hardison of @figdesigncompany is haunting in its beauty, and I would love to one day create something similar in our backyard. But in the meantime, here are this week’s finds, garden edition. I hope you see something you like!

A Visit to Mary Berry’s Garden

Maki Dinnerplate Dahlia Tubers