Let Me Take You To Our Garden!

I usually frame my thoughts in the garden.

When I was a small girl, I remember I was planting plants in empty cans of milk. We lived in a small house, without a garden, in a crowded area. It was always my dream to have a garden where I can plant flowering plants and Bermuda grass.

our fish pond

giving my helping hand to my husband :)

a garden with a heart.

my husband built the sandbox for our son.

That dream materialized when I got married because my husband owned a house with a big garden and a fish pond. I wrote about places that I have gone to. This time, I want to write and to show you around our home garden.

tomatoes.

feeding our pets.

keeping our garden secured! Hahahaha!

our son is also a nature lover.

When I first arrived in The Netherlands, our home garden was very masculine! Hahaha! I told my husband that I like some grasses in the garden so our son can play there. My husband moved the cactus he planted in the middle to give room to the grasses. During summer, we love to lay down there.

when I am totally alone, my God and nature are my constant close companion.

clothesline is special. It brings me back to my simple former life with my parents in The Philippines.

our grapes.

My husband and son planted roses in the garden on Mother's Day of 2014.

Visitors are welcome to consume :)

picking strawberries.

Because life in The Netherlands for most of the time is spent indoors, particularly during cold season, it is like a month of partying and celebration during summer season.
We have a barbecue grill in the garden. My husband built a sandbox for our son. We have a fish pond for Koi. My husband has I think more than eight Koi in our pond.

I love its sight.

where I watch my son's formative years.

in the garden, I am aware what is new and what is former.

for me, they are beauties, not mess.

In the Netherlands most of the residents have a small garden. It surprises most of our visitors to see that we have a big garden. Now that I am living in this house, the former masculine garden became feminine! Hahaha! We have many flowers, I decorated our dirty kitchen, and there is always laundry hanging on the clothesline during summer. I really love my clothesline. Clothesline brings me back to my old life, my simple life with my parents in the Philippines.

When my son is at school, I spend my time in the garden. I usually frame my thoughts in the garden. It is a lovely thought for me: when my husband is at work and my son is in school, my constant companion is my God... And nature. If ever you are near, I can invite you to have a coffee with me or with me and my husband, right in our beautiful garden.