{Our Tropical Patio with Orchids in Indonesia}

• This time I am eager to show you Our Tropical Patio and Orchids in Wonosobo, Indonesia. 
• This will also prove that orchids only require the bare minimum for thriving well. 
• Come on in, step outside from our kitchen-dining area onto the tiled patio. 
• Our patio was walled in, for privacy as is very common in lots of countries. 
• Against that wall were boards of wood wool, on which orchids attached their aerial roots. 
• Also a larger planter box was there and some bonsai type tree in a pot.

• Orchid blooms are so rewarding!
• It gives you really the feeling of being in the tropics.
• At Singapore airport there are thousands of orchids in pots, all around. It makes you think you just went to heaven! But look at our own little heaven we had in Wonosobo, Indonesia...

• The green leafed plant (Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum) in the center, front to the right I will show in a future post as it has a story...
• Most of you recognize several house plants in this planter. Well, they grow like weeds in the tropics and we do pamper them indoors where they never thrive as well as in their natural habitat.
• High humidity; that is KEY.

• Tiled patio and this fixed large planter box and adjacent a little pot with bonsai tree.

• Another planter box and you see those boards with wood wool against the wall with the orchids.

• The entire wall was covered with those boards with wood wool and an enormous variety of orchids.

• Let's have a look at them.
• Have you ever seen them grow like this on a board of wood wool?

• They are a real study in beauty...

• All blooms are so different and also their leaves.

• Are they not a dream?

• We could not get enough of them...

• Such variety!

• Guess that fern is clinging onto the board of wood wool as well...
• By the way, above photo gives you a good view of that board.

• Such a soft cream with some tender lilac color...

• A completely different variety... in golden yellow.

• This one looks like an elegant, upside down cousin of the hyacinth...

• Not the best photo but I wanted to introduce you to this variety as well.

• Another beauty...

Like little bells.

At least you got an idea of the enormous Orchid variety we had.

They were no fussy plants for cultivating and such loyal bloomers.

We loved them and it sure made for a super spot for having our coffee after work; to unwind.

On Sunday we would read here and I did crochet on my filet lace curtains...

Yep, those rose curtains at the front door are made in Indonesia! {My French DMC Rose Filet Lace Crocheted Curtains}

Many fond memories of paradise, besides our consulting job, which we loved too.

Did I convince you now for getting an orchid, or two?

Related links:
{Our Home in Wonosobo, Indonesia} | Previous post by me
{Dieng Plateau Indonesia - Where We Worked} | Previous post by me
{Our arrival in Jakarta, Indonesia} | Previous post by me
{Fly with us to Jakarta, Indonesia} | Previous post by me
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{SORRY YOUR TEA IS GETTING COLD, COME HURRY IN!}

Yes, sorry YOUR TEA is getting cold... It didn't work out as planned for my 8:00 PM launch. It shows up on my NetWorkedBlogs but not on the sidebar... Since I will be reposting several subjects from the time when I was very ill and became paralyzed. So here below it is.

Please do enter, using this link for {STIR UP ANGELIC TEA FOR TWO} 

{STIR UP ANGELIC TEA FOR TWO}

May I invite you for a TEA FOR TWO? Just thought you would like that... For the occasion I made some special handmade chocolates in the shape of an angel and a rose. Stirring up an angelic tea party!

Also I would like to show you this very special high end solid silver spoon by Giovanni Raspini, Italy. A very unique solid silver spoon with two angels, I want to share with you today. It would become a lovely heirloom piece for your family, if this spoon, with twin angels, is given in honor of a new born baby or any occasion involving LOVE. Like I said before, Giovanni Raspini makes High End Silver Gift items that are equal to the Tiffany & Co quality and style. I feel fortunate for being able to bring their unique boutique style items to the American, Canadian and world-wide public. See my Zen Cart powered Mariette's Back to Basics Boutique link, below this post.

From France I have this heavenly angelic tea doily. A vintage treasure done in filet lace needle embroidery on handmade netting.

Sold out...

The silver twin angels do have company... Filet lace doily with angels and roses and a beautiful French cross stitch embroidery on pure unbleached linen in tone-on-tone and framed by my most favorite home town Gallery IROK galerie lijsten kunstuitleen FOTO ALBUM , in Horst aan de Maas, The Netherlands. They do a museum quality job and I will get back on that in a later blog, with more of their exceptional work. We're loyal customers for about three decades; even from the USA!

French Country

The Giovanni Raspini silver spoon is showcased together with my first wedding china from Germany, Mirabell White by Seltmann Weiden. 
Of course, even Replacements Ltd. does have some of its discontinued pieces!
The paper doilies are from Europe as you cannot find the 4" (10 cm) size pieces here... Everything is bigger in the USA.
Well, I must admit that we do live the Going GREEN way as those smaller pieces of China fit more items inside our dishwasher... great for the environment.

More angels on the solid silver napkin holder. 

You can also use it on a desk, for holding cards and letters! 

My passions are angels and roses and this is a nice way of showing that.

Sorry Sold out...

I TOLD you I love angels and roses and I even do EAT them alive... 

Are these hand made chocolates not divine? It is so much fun making them and even more fun to eat, as I use the 70% and higher special dark chocolate for making those. That is supposed to be good for your health as well! Will write more about that later... So much to do still! Subjects will be endless. But bit by bit you get to know what I'm doing...

French Country

Of course, I did search for the book with the beautiful TOI & MOI Angel embroidery. It is in French, but languages are no barrier for me, so I found it on the German Amazon and ordered it from there. 

As said before, this is the Museum Quality Gallery of Irok that does all our framing for three decades already. You can visit Ingrid's Irok Gallery blog below, she  also has a translator.

I like to make a mention here as to the fact that Irok also provides art work for the Hospice facility near our former home town. In that facility on July 22nd of 2010, Mrs. Dora Van den Bekerom passed away. She used to be the secretary of my husband Pieter, at the world's first and only Practical Training College about Mushroom Growing; the one he founded.

Therefore I like to name this blog in honor of her. She was a dear colleague to both of us, very loyal and she not once forgot a birthday. Since she went to heaven to re-unite with her husband who passed away of cancer in 1967 and is now living amongst angels; this will be quite appropriate for ending this blog...
Republished today.

Are you stirring up things with angels at your home?
Would love to know about it.

Related links:

Mirabell White by Seltmann Weiden, Germany