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Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html
Showing posts with label Our Palm Trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Palm Trees. Show all posts

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Our Golden Mist Home and Quercus Virginiana Grand View Gold

 It is the BEST time of the year for our Quercus Virginiana Grand View Gold...
Saturday morning April 15 with full sunshine! 
Benjamin Moore Golden Mist paint for our home with the Interlock Metal Roofing in aged copper slate and Quercus Virginiana Grand View Gold to the right of our home.
Yep, the golden oak had a lot to do with the paint color... 😉
Lots of pot plants on our patio.
Here you can see the entire Quercus Virginiana Grand View Gold
Sure it will even be more golden in the next week or so, see links below for the 'perfect' view.
Yes, our Eastern Phoebe is residing once again on the very same nest (we left it there as I'd read they return to their previous nest!) and has babies.
Last year's nest and you can see their beaks up—ready for Mom or Dad to bring them food.
They love their romantic surroundings by Vintage Woodworks...
This morning I captured the babies and we are not quite sure if there are 3 or 4 in the nest...
Pieter did purchase this beauty for becoming a potplant for our patio.
White Dipladenia it is called.
Dipladenia is in the Mandevilla family but it is a bushier plant whose stems grow down and hang.
This photo I made this morning to give a view of the bay window area and even you see the gazebo on the left.
There are lots of leaves blown off the Southern Magnolia tree...
Yes, on Friday, around 1:00 PM we had torrential rain + wind!
With our Benjamin Moore Golden Mist paint color, we of course had to have yellow pansies...
The same planter on the left is filling in as those got planted somewhat later.
A detail with some rain drops from yesterday...


Related links:
Our Home Freshly Painted | previous post by me

Sunday, October 2, 2022

My Escada Sport Shorts Then and Now

 In my previous post MontrĂ©al Old Port and City Hall ←click link—I did wear my Escada Sport shorts.
Writer and blogger friend I admire: Paula Alexandra Santos ←click link—commented on my outfit, seen in the short video...
Everything the same—except I forgot to get my Burberry folding umbrella 😉.
Keeping that in the pouch of the car seat...
My Escada Sport shorts with matching leather belt.
My Dutch Loints sandals, from The Netherlands and over 40 years old.
Back side where you can see also the linen slouch socks—sustainable and eco friendly pieces.
Escada Sport belt.
Escada Sport shorts in size 34 or US size 4.
Of course they are more faded than in the above video from 1998...😏.
Always loved wearing this soft yellow shirt from Time Square Sportswear–Denver, Colorado, USA.
100% cotton!
Very subtle logo embroidered on the front: ATLANTA
My all time favorite little handbag GABRIELLE.
That hails from the mid 70s from a store in Panningen where I lived when first married...

Related links:
Mount Royal Park and Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montréal, Canada | previous post by me where I also wear the entire outfit...
COME Cross the Tengger Sand Sea to Volcano Mount Bromo, Indonesia | previous post by me wearing the Loints sandals
True Indigo Indigofera Tinctoria in Pieter's Favorite Color  | previous post by me wearing my Loints sandals

Friday, July 22, 2022

Pieter Captured our Estate + Progress for me to View While in Limburg

 After doing the usual watering in the morning for keeping plants and shrubs alive, using the electric pump and water from our pond, Pieter made another round for me to SEE how our Estate looked like.
June 7, our Magnolia Grandiflora 'Namnetensis 'Namnetensis Flore Pleno',
A near perfect bud
Looking inside
Our Fiberglass Window Boxes alongside veranda and bay window area of kitchen on June 8.
These are our double greenish white flowering petunias; Blanket® Double Chardonnay Petunia Plants ←click link
Our Moonflower, a night blooming Ipomoea
Near our Vinyl Picket Fence Hibiscus syriacus 'Diana' - Rose-of-Sharon 'Diana' 
Our double blooming Hibiscus syriacus Jeanne D'Arc
Fiberglass Window Boxes on retainer wall near driveway on June 9 with Golden Lantana that trail down.
Detail and you see an empty can of wood preservative for Pieter's Wood Trail Mega Task...
He spent quite a lot on that trail, going back and forth to Home Depot.
These photos are all from June 9, around 8:40 after breakfast time.
Looking all so lush!
Our Palm trees.
Palm Trees with the tall Italian Cypress.
And all Pot Plants around...
Happy and well cared for Pot Plants and Palm Trees!
Our Home seen from the back, taken from the gazebo area.
We both love the sight of the house without that humongous live oak there.
The bare spot still needs to fill in with grass but in a couple of years, that too will be done!
The progress of the Wood Trail on June 11
Detail with the axe to the right for attacking roots that were in the way...
Pieter's shadow is visible with his iPadPro.
Another short 1:55 minute update on Pieter's progress, captured on June 11.
Oh, I KNEW that he was aiming for having it all DONE when I would come home!
Photo taken on June 14, around 8:15 after breakfast.
Showing all the cut up 22 inch boards, that Pieter got at Home Depot.
By having several rotten boards he was short of several in the end.
We used to buy those 22 x 22 inch squares with boards from Lowes in 1993 through 1996 but they are no longer available.
Only 3 seconds, video taken by me on June 21 and to the right you see the blue tarp that went over those 
cut up 22 inch boards from Home Depot, to protect them from heavy rain.
The FINAL part seems always to be hard. 
Photo from June 21 shows clearly the elevated way of this newly laid wood trail.
The rotten boards and beams that were buried in the ground still needed to be gathered up along the trail.
We also need to get rid of the black bottomless trash can, left on our property by some workers...


Related links:
Our Agapanthus and Wood Trail | showing our first Wood Trail laid out
Pieter's NEW Love—While I was in Limburg | previous post by me
Pieter Capturing his Progress on the Wood Trail while I was in Limburg | previous post by me
{Our Hibiscus syriacus 'Diana' - Rose-of-Sharon 'Diana'} | previous post by me
{Our Hibiscus syriacus Jeanne D'Arc & Our Life in Italy} | previous post by me

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Our Garden in May

 May is still a pleasant month here in the South; not yet too hot and plants and shrubs thrive.
Our Yucca lily is putting on a show again...
Yucca lily is a happy potplant and rewarding us annually with blooms!
So are our loyal Oxalis!
Snapdragons are quite happy and perform if they get plenty of water...
Happy yellow!
Oakleaf hydrangea or Hydrangea quercifolia.
Oakleaf hydrangea with Rose Arbor and Gazebo...
The bumble bee that flew around did not want to pose for me...
Yes, our kitties live in Paradise.
Lounging here under the Quercus Virginiana Grand View Gold, left is Tiggy–Tiger and her brother Spooky to the right of her.
Palm tree is doing well and our fragrant Magnolia Grandiflora 'Namnetensis Flore Pleno' is blooming.
On May 19, Pieter made this photo of a bloom of our fragrant Magnolia Grandiflora 'Namnetensis Flore Pleno' and it measures 26  cm or 10.5 inches in diameter!
And it is double, two layers of petals.
Happy kitties lounging after supper!
Still sunshine around 18:00 o'clock and I love the shadow of the palm tree on the garage door.
The driveway is very warm from the sun and Spunky girl is stretched out, her brother Spooky in the grass...
Gazebo visible in the back and a tiny greenhouse in the distance to the right of it.
This is from the front, as I walked around our property and on the wood trail.
My first exercise on May 17, after my severe mid–back arthritis pain...
When I opened the repurposed mailbox (bird house now!) in the wood garden, the Carolina Wren flew out and I saw that she had now Baby Birds!
Read more in my previous post with photo of nest with eggs→: Husband Pieter Finished Restoration Work on our Bridges on Wood Trail
So glad that Pieter timely did remove the white egg, the brood parasitic bird one, just before they hatched, without disturbing her! 
Did not want to leave it opened too long, nor disturb the 3 Baby Birds; two beaks are clearly visible here.
Do you have birds nesting in your garden and/or around the house?

Related links:
Variegated Yucca Lily Blooming | previous post by me

Friday, April 29, 2022

My Pieter Turned 93

 Yes, today is a very special day as my Pieter turned 93!
Thanks to a great Cardiologist and complete change of medications he lived beyond the grave message we received from our previous cardiologist; who actually neglected him.
Prayers also DO help!
Just to show you our ABUNDANCE of fresh flowers back then...
All varieties of Calla lilies and sweet smelling white Lathyrus.
I used all kind of Baccarat crystal vases for them, also Baccarat perfume bottles.
Below is a 1:33 minute short video from our vases with garden flowers on Pieter's 74th Birthday.
At 0:46 you see our white fragrant peonies.
Immediately followed by pink roses in my Rose China with sprigs of Forget–Me–Not.
A DREAM! 
We have no roses left, and if you see how many we had back then...
Guess the competition of the now huge oak trees and others is way too fierce.
And we miss the spent mushroom compost already for two decades!
That was the very best from mushroom cultivation.
A Happy Pieter on his 81st Birthday on Dutch Queen's Day celebration in Atlanta.
This was good 4 months before his heart attack and open heart surgery on September 3. 2010.
Wearing my Escada suit that we saw while in Budapest but could not afford it then, at full boutique price.
Found it later on eBay.
Around Pieter's Birthday, our Quercus Virginiana Grand View Gold is at its BEST.
One of our Palm Trees is right in front of it in this photo.
Sadly today was the funeral of the late Georgia Congressman, the Honorable J. Roy Rowland who had a special U.S. flag flown over the U.S. Capitol for both of us on December 30, 1993...
April 23, was Pieter's 29th Birthday as a United States Citizen!
Post shared on FB Page
Shared also on my FB...
Pieter had a very special and happy Birthday!


Related link:
Our Garden at the Time we had Access to Spent Mushroom Compost | previous post by me with video from Middle Georgia Magazine
{1993 Today, the American Flag was flown for both of us...} | previous post by me 

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