Garden Miracles After the Late Frost

On March 31, I've taken photos from some more tender pot plants on our patio and around the gazebo.

Having lived a sheltered life all winter, inside the greenhouse, they were now ready to move outdoors.

Spooky boy is always following you, like a loyal doggy... being a feline though.

Azalea is so HAPPY as one of Our Pot Plants!

Cleaning up the patio didn't make sense yet, or you could repeat it every day.

Catkins falling and frozen and dead leaves...

A very happy Hibiscus, the latest 'RESCUE', as Pieter loves to bring home neglected and abused pot plants from Home Depot and by placing them straight into a larger pot with good potting soil and being sheltered inside the Greenhouse, it LOVED us right back!

Our Staghorn Fern came out of the greenhouse for living one more year on the remainder of the special saved stump.

However, the stump is being worked over by the woodpeckers and such so each year there is less and less!

In the back you still see the frozen Japanese Magnolia leaves being brown.

This was such a delight on March 31!

Our variegated Bougainvillea was in FULL bloom while in the greenhouse...

Joy for the blooming Bougainvillea but what a SAD sight was this totally frozen Pommegranate tree...

BUT - Miracles do happen in nature!

This photo and the next are taken on May 8, and sadly there is only ONE Bougainvillea flower left...

But LOOK:

Next to the Bougainvillea this young Pomegranate tree has gotten completely NEW LEAVES!

Still you can see some of the dead, brown ones from the March 16 Frost.

Oh, one of our cat boys comes following me of course!

Closer to our Greenhouse, there is the 2nd young Pomegranate tree and here you see the very same young green leaves with some of the wilting frozen and brown ones.

That makes one very happy!
Both of us LOVE this Antioxidant SuperFruit.

Need to get out and weed our garden as on May 20 we will have people come for a Garden Tour, a fund raiser of one of my Knight Owls Choir members.

And yes, we did perform on Saturday the 6th at 14:00 and at 19:00 o'clock at our local theatre.

Together with the younger Mockingbirds; Hummingbirds; Knightingales we sang, danced and performed.

The full DVD of both performances will be available by the end of the month so finally all choir members can enjoy it too!

Husband Pieter was very impressed by this 20th Anniversary Revue.

All because of one single woman, our talented Leader Kelly Knight (hence our names Knightingales and Knight Owls...).

What a great asset to our community!

Will soon be catching up with your blogs and thanks for your visits here.

Related links:
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Naylor Hall in Roswell Georgia for Dutch KONINGS DAG

Yes, I am late for posting this but that is due to the upcoming Revue with our Choir...

Will soon be able to visit others and to catch up on life!

But yes, husband Pieter and I did go to the annual Dutch event at Naylor Hall in Roswell, GA near Atlanta.
Always great to meet with the Dutch community here in Georgia.
Both of us feel very proud that they are one of the Ten Largest Foreign FDI Investors in Georgia!
Click the pink hyperlink and see that they rank 4th...

Thursday, April 27 on a bright sunny afternoon!

We had rain showers in the morning...

We had come the long drive to Roswell once again.

Stopping at Costco for picking up our DVDs with old 8mm movies.

Checking in at the Hyatt Place Atlanta/Alpharetta/North Point Mall first and than only a few miles driving to the lovely Naylor Hall.

We arrived there as FIRST guests for Valet Parking!

Not a good photo due to the harsh sunlight...

Husband Pieter who would celebrate a special double-digit Birthday two days later!

Feeling relaxed for being in time. The traffic was not bad at all for once!

Yes, wearing some orange for the House of Orange...

We were here 8 years ago with Pieter's Goddaughter and her partner Toine.

Special memories!

The Valet Parking crew standby for the majority of the guests.

Wearing my Escada jeans and blouse.

Comfortable for the long drive.

You can see more photos here from the Naylor Hall FB Page,  just click the link.

We still enjoy the complimentary orange tulips!

Thank you for your visits and soon I will be 'off duty' and visit you!

Related posts:

{Orange Tulips compliments of Cut Flower Wholesale - Atlanta} | previous post by me
{HM King Willem Alexander by Elske Wilton, Portrait Artist} | previous post by me
{Dutch King's Birthday Celebration in Atlanta, Georgia} | previous post by me
{Curaçao Airport on Coronation Day King Willem-Alexander} | previous post by me 
{Usually we celebrate Dutch Queen's Day in Atlanta} | previous post by me with Pieter's
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My 2nd Fleur de Lys Crocheted Curtain is Hanging

Well, by hand crocheting those huge Fleur de Lys Curtains; I learned anew about PERSEVERANCE.

Feeling so very happy to have this 2nd Fleur de Lys curtain up and hanging; after only some 50 hours of crocheting!
On March 14, Speed Crochet... My final 1.5 Fleur de Lys.

After all, it was only HALF the size of the first one I did crochet in about 100 hours.

The crocheted table topper with roses was a gift from my dear friend Ellie.

An elderly lady Mia Keizers, in her 70s, did crochet that one.

The woolen rug also has the Fleur de Lys pattern.

Both of us are very pleased with the new curtains.

Husband Pieter even called it our home's prettiest room. Also with the view we have from here.

Our proud collection of Delfware houses, earned on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

If we only had the time to sit here, relax and read...

Having done this task, I need to catch up on so many other things!

And we are getting slower as we age.

Cannot complain though.

Thanks for your visit!

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