#garden stone path

[gomioujo]

Pathway Landscape San Diego This is an illustration of a sizable craftsman spring stone landscaping project on the sun side of the yard.

[richtigezahnpflege]

Exterior in Dallas An illustration of a large, elaborate, two-story brown brick building with a shingle roof

[cheerddanshi]

Fountain - Traditional Landscape An example of a mid-sized traditional full sun backyard stone landscaping in spring.

[britishnickyy]

Pathway Landscape Design ideas for a large traditional full sun backyard stone landscaping in spring.

[whitewizard89]

Exterior in Dallas

[vintagehomecollection]

Creative Gardens, 1986

[illustratus]

[yorksnapshots]

The Roman walls of York, England.

[1lifeinspired]

Oak Brook Garden Tour with Lush Plantings - Town & Country Living

[not-poignant]

15 and 27 for the soft asks! <33

15. Comfort food?

Gird thy loins it's like 4,000 things:

Sue Lewis chocolate first and foremost but I only get to have this like twice a year.

Homemade prawn cocktails (*sobs in I'm so whi-hi-hiiiite*)

Lemon and sugar crepes

Chips with chicken salt (no, not like shoestring fries, no, if you're not Australian you probably haven't encountered chicken salt, it's complicated, the Australians know)

Cadbury Black Forest chocolate (I literally ate some today, I wonder why... *stares at the US in commiseration*)

Good tiny mandarins

Good tangelos

Fresh pineapple

Actually a lot of different fruits we're gonna be here a while

Fresh apples and local honey (very pagan very yum)

Dim sum (yum cha)

A good bubble tea, especially the Okinawa that Presotea does

Whopper Junior from Hungry Jacks with heavy onion (and heavy pickle)

Ham + cheese + onion toasties

Iced Mocha

Strawberries + melted dark chocolate from San Churro's

Shio and tonkotsu ramen (and menma, lots of menma)

Those really nice korokke, the crab and cheese ones, from South Korea

That one sushi place in that one suburb that does the tuna sushi and it somehow manages to be the best thing I've ever had in my entire life

The cheesecake I had in England that one time

A good (good!) lemon meringue pie

(Remember when I said we were going to be here a while) Rice pudding

Chocolate mousse

Mum's chocolate self saucing pudding

Calippos in Summer

Pralines & Cream gelato from Gelare

...okay I gotta stop I GOTTA STOP

Mapo tofu

Bun bo hue with extra spice

OKAY I'M STOPPING

There's more though.

GOOD BREAD

HAha I promise I'm stopping

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27. Do you like to garden? Have you ever grown something?

I love to garden! And I have grown many things. I am growing many things this year actually. I'm too disabled to do as much as I'd like to do. That part sucks. But because it's a passion of mine and it's so rewarding, I do prioritise it.

So my entire back garden was created from scratch, literally it was a sandpit because this house basically didn't exist until we moved into it. So xeriscaping / landscaping is something close to my heart. I typically focus on local native plants because of our fragile and specific ecosystem, for local pollinators, but as time goes by I've also fallen in love with many other plants from other climes and places too.

The front garden has more 'exotics' in it. This year, from seed, I'm growing dahlias, zinnias, Californian poppies, basil, snapdragons, poached egg plants, foxgloves, marigolds, spinach and cucumber. In the back garden in pots we also have karapincha (curry plant) given to me by my Sri Lankan sister-in-law, from her curry plant. I've kept it alive in a pot for about 15 years or so. I also grow aloe vera (more like I can't fucking kill it), citronella (begone!), lemongrass, rosemary, thyme, oregano, and sage (until it finally died this year). Also daffodils and gladiolus from bulbs.

I am super proud of my garden and its many changes. It's a good place to raise a puppy. It's a great place to watch the world go by. It was once sand, and now it's a haven of Eucalyptus trees for many different species of honeyeater and wattlebird. It makes up for the fact that I'm too disabled to go anywhere and do anything most of the time. Even if I only leave the house to do something other than a medical appointment about 4 or 5 times a year, at least the garden is there for me!

I actually post way more on my Instagram!

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From the soft asks meme!

[mothmiso]

July 2024 (2) (3) (4) (5) by Mairéad Ni Rodaigh

Via Flickr:

(3) Today we walked the Molly Loop Walk on the Cooley peninsula in north Louth taking in the ruins of old cottages on the mountain. (4) This former pub on the way in (or out) of Dundalk is where my husband spent his first two years. His parents, like many of their generation, then emigrated to England. He went to school and college, always coming back on holidays, before returning permanently in the early 1980s.     

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

*staring very intensely at the neighborhood* what do you look like when you're not a simplified website map

[scoutingthetrooper]

[thezimster]

Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland OR.

photo by

Walt Zimmer

[vintagehomecollection]

The Cottage Book, 1989

[inspiredlivingspaces]