Tea Time and Spring Flowers

One of the our daily highlights is having Afternoon Tea

Yesterday afternoon with fresh cut Fragrant Daffodils from our garden with fresh Camellias.
On my side table with the beautiful Hand Crocheted Lace topper.
A gift from dear Susan from the blog: Ava Grace's Closet and you ought to visit this sweet blogger friend!
My other dear blogger friend Celia M. High Heeled Life & Resilientista would very much approve of this Self Care Moment!

Healthy Living and Relaxing with Green Tea, Mixed unsalted Nuts, Seaweed (Costco) and Rice Cake from Whole Foods Market.

A close up of that healthy portion...

Believe it or not, two of our feline brothers LOVE each a piece of Seaweed and Bandido-boy also eats one or two Cashews!
In reply to blogger friend Jim from The Road to Parnassus I have added these photos from the type of Green Tea used...

Organic Green Tea
A Blend of Sencha & Matcha

My photos got taken with very dark weather so that's maybe the reason the tea looks strong...
Having fresh flowers is one thing but the lack of sunshine for good photography is often another!

Thanks for visiting!

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{My Rice Cakes FIT in this Dutch Rusk Tin} | previous post showing you my Rice Cakes...
{Meaningful GIFT from The Fairmont Empress Victoria} | previous post showing you the table topper...

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{My BLISS = Tea, Chocolate & Flowers}

For taking time to sip tea together with preferably chocolate and some fresh flowers really is My BLISS!

Don't you agree?

These fragrant Narcissus Obdam we had on March 5th...

A time to slow down and savor the goodness of chocolate with tea.

Having a nice conversation and feeling blissful!

Wishing you all a lovely week ahead and thanks for stopping by.

Related links:

{Fragrant Narcissus Obdam} | previous post by me
{Lady Alexander Rose by Queen Anne & Obdam Narcissus} | previous post by me
{Fragrant Double Narcissus Obdam} | previous post by me

{Gift Amaryllis Fully Blooms on Mom's Birthday in Heaven}

A rather sentimental day... We went to the funeral of a dear friend June and February 12 is also Mom's 2nd Birthday in Heaven.

A sunny day however and a beautiful Gift Amaryllis from sweet friends, given on my birthday, was fully blooming.

Such beautiful flowers really do lift up ones spirit!

A little miracle to see one by one 5 huge flowers unfold.

Sitting on the window sill in our Kitchen.

There is even a second bud, a bit lower, so we might see again an outburst of multi flowers!

Their stamens are very beautiful too.

What a joy such a gift!

In regard to my previous post, about living now with a Pain Free Back, I can add that also this Youtheory Turmeric supplement is available via Costco in the U.K. So for my European readers, that is another option to get it or mail order it through amazon.co.uk (just click on the hyperlink above) for a very reasonable price. Far better priced than the ones offered at amazon.fr and amazon.de as they ask outrageous prices around € 200 per bottle!

{Happy Birthday with a Pain Free Back} | previous post by me about my Auto Immune Disease

{WHY are our spring bulbs NOT blooming?}

Happy to be feeling a LOT better and after one week I had a complete night sleep without excruciating upper/mid back pain. What a relief!

While walking yesterday around our property we were discussing WHY in the world we don't see flowers on our Snow Drops; Crocus and Daffodils?!

Pieter thinks it is because of some interaction between the roots of trees...

Makes one sad as we had hundreds of bulbs that performed so well the first couple of years.

We miss seeing our vases filled up with fragrant daffodils.

Even though we do have the chocolate letters with our cup of chocolate...

Does any of you have this problem of only having daffodil foliage but NO blooms?

And NO, we have NEVER EVER cut the foliage off!

Happy February!

Hate to say that my back pain is back again after just one day of relief...

Planting & Care | Bulbs need phosphorous being mixed into the soil below where the bulbs will be located! Bonemeal or superphosphate...

{Highly Fragrant 1939 Sweetness Daffodils}

Due to my severe back pain, I just recycle this 2012 post of January 28...

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• Yesterday we had two big nosegays of fragrant 1939 Sweetness Daffodils. One for a dear friend and one for us to fill a white ceramic vase. What a bliss for having those in January. That is extremely early. Do any of you have bulbs blooming right now? 

• 1939 Sweetness Daffodils and china from the Daffodil of Royal Albert Friendship series...
• This china pattern can be found at Replacements Ltd, click the above link.

• Fragrant Sweetness Daffodils; Sunshine and Tea...

• Dark chocolate Pomegranate from Costco.
• Amaretti cookie hearts from Mariette's Back to Basics

• Teapot is a French Pillivuyt

• The ceramic spoon to the right is an American Favorites Porcelain Spoon from Avon. It is the 1988 pattern with Daffodils.

• The sterling bon bon or nut spoon is a H44 H J Howe with daffodils.

• 1988 Avon Daffodils spoon

• Matching cocktail napkin with daffodil embroidery.

Sorry that you cannot smell their fragrance...

Related links:
{DAFFODIL OF ROYAL ALBERT FRIENDSHIP SERIES} | Previous post by me

{Dahlia}

Just an old fashioned beauty!

Something so lovely during a summer day...

Little miracles!

{Our Fragrant 1916 Heirloom Thalia Narcissus & Spooky-boy}

On March 17, I could make some lovely photos from our fragrant heirloom 1916 Thalia Orchid Narcissus, accompanied by our Spooky-boy. 

They really look like Orchids these Thalia Narcissus!

Not that many flowers this year but still beautiful with the blue Ipheion in the front.

Our Spooky-boy joining me and posing in front of my camera...

Beautiful blue stars; Ipheion is a lovely spring flower bulb.

Our felines live in paradise!

Spooky-boy is a dreamer...

Related links:
{Ipheion A Constellation of Blue Stars } | previous post by me
{Heirloom 1916 Thalia Orchid Narcissus & Ipheion Star Flower in Our Garden} | previous post by me
{Our fragrant 1916 heirloom Thalia - latest of our Daffodils} | previous post by me

{Fragrant Narcissus Obdam}

One of our most favorite Heirloom Narcissus are the Obdam. They are also fully double and a dream in a vase...

Lovely cream with yellow and I love the greenish petals!

They really make a lovely vase and are so fragrant for enjoying indoors.

You clearly see the hint of green...

Let me show you these greenish petals more up close.

Such a beauty; don't you agree?

They should stay like that for weeks, why are flowers wilting so quickly?

The Obdam is really multi-colored!

Wish I could reproduce the fragrance for you...

Here is where they live, in our wood garden, across the center bridge.

This year they did yield twice a nice filled vase but some years, the buds just dry up and never open...

Do you have some fragrant double heirloom Narcissus like these Obdam?

{Tulips as Patio Pot Plants}

Since Voles do actually snack on Tulip bulbs, we decided to grow some as Patio Pot Plants!

Lovely color and there was just one early bloomer!

Photo is from February 23...

One forerunner and the next planter box contains some Angelique tulips that still have to bloom.

Will share them with you whenever they are ready!

{Fragrant Heirloom Daffodils & My Chocolate Addiction...}

Just being frank and honest; YES I am addicted to DARK Chocolate... On February 23, I did enjoy my LAST (!) piece of dark chocolate letter 'M' with my hot tea. They are all gone and I'm about to make me something chocolaty to enjoy. Do you like chocolate as well? Yes, I know I'm diabetes type 2 but I will NOT give up my dark chocolate. Hell no!

That's a dream, even with the sunshine lacking... 

Fragrant Heirloom Daffodils and a CHUNCK of Dark Chocolate!

If any of you out there love those chocolate letters, try to get some on sale at The Dutch Store Vander Veen's in Michigan, USA. 

Because of those dark days I had to go out on our balcony for having some light...

And there is the sun!

Perfectly teamed up with the  Mason's Mandalay Chartreuse vase and teacup.

Those Heirloom Daffodils are oh so fragrant!

Lovely for having some different fragrant varieties outside as well...

Lovely view from our bay window during breakfast...
We just made a long walk at 4:30 PM till 5:30 PM and look how warm it still was:

Yep: 28°C or 82°F at 16:23...

{Crocus near our Vinyl Picket Fence}

Since the huge pine tree has been cut down and the big oak tree trimmed up there was lots of space now for planting more bulbs near the Vinyl Picket Fence. So husband Pieter put out some Crocus...

We had so much rain that it was difficult for capturing these yellow crocus on camera...

This is February 23 and it made us happy to finally see some color!

This is the view from our bay window in the kitchen and the yellow daffodils are also starting to bloom.

That crocus patch could even have been bigger!

Our grass looks all winter like that, so dreary and dead...

At least these crocus are happy flower bulbs and blooming for weeks on end.

Let's hope spring will pull through finally!

Happy new week to all of you.