{Walk Our Wood Trail With Me + Helen Curtis Azalea}

You might wonder how our Garden Tours from Book an Event with us, are being done... Just follow me and you will see. It is a wooden trail that goes through our back garden, also across the creek and several wooden trail parts in the wood garden as well. Pieter put a lot of work in laying those. Each year they get treated with wood preservatives. Let's start from the gazebo to the left and we'll be back for coffee/tea + cake later...

• The trail weaves around trees. Notice the many bird houses we have throughout our property?

• There is the the Azalea Helen Curtis coming in sight...

• It is 17:00 o'clock and the sunlight is perfect for catching this beauty. Helen Curtis is a pure white Rhododendron (common name Azalea) with double flowers and a hint of chartreuse.

• Birdhouse for a wren... with Carolina jasmine vine.

• The greenhouse is in sight...

• Our compost bin for all vegetable and fruit peels...

• There is the pond...

• All pot plants have just come out of the greenhouse and need to get back on their spots. Pieter can no longer do that himself, since his open heart surgery so we wait for our Mexican helper. It is too much to get them up hill alone.

• We walked past the pond and use one of the three bridges across the creek, into the wood garden.

• The trail goes on and there are several wooden parts as well.
• Okay, back to the gazebo for coffee/tea + cake!

Hope you enjoyed it and got a better idea now...

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{205 Winfield Road Then and Now} | When it was still swampy before Pieter laid this wood trail and build the bridges across the creek...

{Chaenomeles Japonica - Japanese flowering quince}

• From mid March already our Chaenomeles Japonica has been blooming with the prettiest of apricot colored blossoms. A very rewarding dense shrub that blooms year after year and is not fussy at all.
• This one is planted within sight from our gazebo and those of you that can participate in a Garden Tour from Book an Event with us, can see it while sipping tea.

• It makes quite a different photo in twenty minutes time for having sunlight or without...

• The above photo is from 2001! We've had it for quite a while.

• You can see our gazebo here above...

• That's the neighbor's home to the right...

{Hyacinthoides Hispanica Excelsior - Spanish Blue Bell or Wood Hyacinth}

These porcelain blue beauties in our garden do turn to a more lavender color towards the final stage of blooming. Either way; they are stunning and fragrant too. They thrive well and rodents do not eat their bulbs and they're also deer resistant. They too are part of the garden tour with Book an Event with us. We have them near the gazebo, on our property line.

Hyacinthoides hispanica Excelsior make excellent cutflowers as well. Here they are shown in a vase on a handcrochetd placemat that I've made.