{THANKS to 166 Followers from 113 Countries!}

First of all I want to let you know that our Oxalis NEVER do yield a 4-leaf 'lucky' clover...

BUT, I certainly feel very lucky for being healthy again and being happy! Officially I did start my blog in November of 2009, but soon I got that ill that I had to halt my blog till I was no longer paralyzed from a rare auto immune disease. But now things work well and I enjoy reading all your comments and blogs; if time permits. You all know by now that our garden and home do take up quite some time and attention.

On April 2nd of 2010, I did put Google Analytics on my blog. Just did capture this history of one year for you to view. Sincerely I want to THANK all of you, for reading my blog and for visiting our garden, home and events. Tomorrow I will list a GIVEAWAY as my token of appreciation! Stay tuned...

Just on one single day there were 35 countries visiting...

I feel honored for seeing that many countries. Far more than the countries I've traveled to or worked in as a consultant. You can see my countries visited at the top of my blog, under Followers. 

113 countries in one year with 15,849 visits, according to Google Analytics.

One special Thank You to dear Friend Johanna from Silber-und-Rosen-Shop (Silver+Roses) who was the VERY first to leave a comment on my blog and has been a regular ever since. She is the author of a great book that she did autograph for me with a special message... I've done my 3rd blog about her, you can read that here: {Splendid book about Silver Rose Flatware} 

That's a lot of page views: 59,025...

Looks like our lives are going uphill again. Me being paralyzed in January, last year and slowly getting on track and Pieter having his open heart surgery in September...

THANKS ALL FOR READING MY HUMBLE BLOG!

{OXALIS in Our Garden}

Lovely shamrocks 'Oxalis', that start blooming around April and don't give up that easy. They are grown from bulbs and they do naturalize. Welcome again to our garden with a Garden Tour from Book an Event with us.

Oxalis Triangularis or Purple Shamrock
Deep maroon purple leaves with a deep rose patterning and unusual trifoliate foliage with light pink to lavender flowers.

{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...

Related link:

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