Happy Monday, I hope you had a good weekend! We’ve enjoyed some cooler temperatures the last few days which were perfect for gardening and working around the Potting Shed. I’ve been busy as a bee buzzing from project to project, planting and painting, details and photos to come soon.
Here are a few garden rules I like to follow . . .
Plant the Seeds
Play in the Dirt
Wish for Rain
Watch the Bumble Bees
Pull Weeds
Relax
Talk with Angels
Fertilize
Feed the Birds
Add New Flowers
Sip a Drink
Enjoy the Beauty
I ordered a Garden Rules sign from Antique Farmhouse several weeks ago, perfect for reminding yourself to find the joy in gardening among all your chores!
It’s the ideal width to hang on a shutter by the backdoor of my Potting Shed, so eventually it will hang there or I can move it inside. The backdoor has a large empty panel from the chalkboard side that’s a bit of a challenge to fill and decorate with something blooming. I hung the Garden Rules Sign on a hardware cloth frame with some vintage garden tools and cut some honeysuckle vine that’s running rampant with fragrant blooms in the field next to my shed, to frame the sign.
I’ve been planting containers and pots with annuals and vines and Mother Nature has been oh so helpful with the abundance of rain she’s provided recently. I know it won’t be long before I’ll be lugging the hoses around to keep everything watered.
The winners of my Earth Laughs in Flowers and Happy Earth Day Giveaway giveaway:
Tools: Cyndi Raines
Gloves & Seeds: Sarah @ Hyacinths For The Soul
Seeds & Notecards:
Granny Gay
Martha Franks
Amy Kaminski
I’ll be in touch with you all by email and get your goodies mailed to you! Thanks to all who entered.
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Congratulations to all the winners!!! Rain, rain, rain!!! We have had our fair share for sure…hopefully, in the middle of July and August, we will get a nice share then too!!! 51/2 inches is enough for now…and we could use some warmer tempts…too cold to put stuff in the ground!!! Hopefully, warming by the end of the week!! Have a wonderful sunny day!! ☀️☀️☀️☀️
Looking forward to receiving my goodies from you, Mary! Many thanks…they will serve as a reminder of your generosity as a “talent-sharer”…:) Many thanks…
Congrats to all your winners. Great rules to follow in the garden. I can’t wait to see how your new space you planted last year fleshes out this year, Mary.
Congratulations to all the lucky winners!
Congratulations to all you lucky winners!😎🌴 Have a great week!🤗
Thank you so much Mary! I’ll be looking forward to my gift in the mail. The potting shed is looking fabulous! We had frost this morning so no annuals for us yet here in Michigan but soon I hope.
What a lovely way to start the day!!! Such gorgeous pictures. Just love
your new sign. Perfect in the vines on the door. Congrats to the winners..
And as always, TFS!! Happy Monday 🐱
*Sigh* so many gorgeous photos, Mary , I feel like my soul has been renewed! I love your garden rules…Congrats to the winners! 🌸
My Monday started off wonderfully by gazing at the beautiful photos of the shed!…Good rules for the shed to live by and it always so beautifully adheres to!….Congrats to the winners! Happy Monday!…and yes, I felt like a popsicle while sitting at the fields in Huntersville…it was cold, but the worst was the wind!
Mary, your sign is a wonderful reminder to us gardeners that having a garden definitely takes work but in the end it is all for the beauty and enjoyment of that work. Thank you sharing all your hard work with us….we get to enjoy the beauty!
Congratulations to the winners!! Your potting shed and area are beautiful. Gardening was my husband’s passion.
Love the Garden sign! Congrats to the winners! Happy Monday
Thank you SO much Mary! I am doing my happy dance right now! I have a small display area by my front door that I change out with each season, so they will be on display and I’ll tell everyone that I received them from you! Love the shed’s new sign, it’s so fitting. Congratulations to all the other winners ~ What a happy day this is!!
Your post is an abundance of “Hyacinths to feed my soul”, Mary. I truly marvel at the beauty you create and sustain. I would love to be a little bird or bumble bee and spend my life fluttering in and among your pretty flowers. The rules are just perfect. I would be talking to my angel mother who spent most of her waking hours puttering in her garden. Makes me sad that I didn’t take the opportunity to putter along side her more in the later years.
I’m thrilled to be one of the lucky winners. I will sow the seeds and hope that they flourish in my Texas garden. The gloves will be well used and a constant reminder of your generosity and beautiful friendship.
Happy Spring!
Yippee!!! for the winners. We are wishing for more rain!!! Happy gardening!
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty!!! I’m enjoying your garden greatly, Mary.
We had frost last night & tonight is predicted to go down to 31º. No flower planting around here yet!!!
Congrats to all the winners!
Love the sign. Gardening is hard work, but oh so satisfying to the soul. What a blessing that you have a potting shed that beautiful. Congrats to all winners. Have a wonderful day to all of you.
Oh what a thrill it is tpo see your beautiful photos. I love the new sign and your frame is perfect! Good rules to follow for sure. Thank you for this little bit of beauty.
Darn, the garden rules sign is sold out:(
Congrats to the winners!
Love your new Garden Rules sign for your door, Mary! It looks perfect on your potting shed door.
Yea for the winners of your giveaways!! Hooray!
Beautiful color combinations!! franki
It snowed here yesterday…praying for sun. Your pics give me hope..🌞
Mary,
I love rules that are fun rules like your new sign for the gardening shed. Congratulations to all the winners.
Judith
Congrats to all your winners, Mary! Great rules to follow. My garden has been getting rain and cooler temps! Have a great week!
Love your new sign – and a big big congrats to the lucky winners!
Worked in our gardens the last few days – starting to look awesome again, yay!
Beautiful gardens, planters, climbers, potting shed. You definitely are blessed with a green thumb.
It sure looks like spring has sprung Mary! Everything looks perky and beautiful-enjoy:@)
What a lovely post, you are all set for summer, and we haven’t quit having frosts every night. Grins, gardening is also an expression of total HOPE, with the rules…LOL. Sandi
What beautiful pictures of a beautiful garden! So many lovely areas. :)
Beautiful, Mary. Just as soothing and nourishing as a garden. What is the material around your shed? A type of mulch? I wondered if it would work for me. We still have construction debris and bald (scorched) earth.