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How gardening fills my life with hope. And secret garden conversations with God

Anita Mathias — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:01:08 +0000

I more or less decided to buy our house, after seeing pictures of it online: it had 9 of the 10 things I was praying for. And one of these was a massive garden. Much to my husband’s annoyance, when we viewed the house, I asked to see the garden first. I fell fast in […]

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Images of my Oxford Garden in May 2013 ( and my tame rabbits!)

Anita Mathias — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:12:41 +0000

The garden, 1.5 acre, was quite beyond us last May. Daniel (and Jonathan) have been helping us since August, so it’s a lot more manageable–and, in my eyes, beautiful, this year. Some images from our garden in May. Tulips are beautiful, very easy to grow, and varied. Our rabbits enjoying the back lawn. […]

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Our Garden on Easter Sunday

Anita Mathias — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:37:10 +0000

The wintry weather has delayed the daffodils, so we have mainly Hellebores.

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In Praise of Gardening

Anita Mathias — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:40:37 +0000

(A hellebore from my garden on Easter Sunday last year) Here’s a lyrical passage from Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Gardening provides rewards far beyond the vegetable paycheck. It gets a body outside for some part of every day to work the heart, lungs, and muscles you wouldn’t believe existed, providing a healthy balance to […]

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Bees, Blessing and Permaculture

Anita Mathias — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:16:00 +0000

Chives in full bloom in our herb garden We have a hive of Buckland bees, a mild, docile breed at the bottom of our garden. A hive of bees in the garden apparently “blesses” the entire garden. The flowers pollinated are bigger and brighter. Vegetables pollinated by bees are bigger. The harvests of fruit increases exponentially, tempting […]

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What my garden teaches– Part I (with latest images of my garden)!)

Anita Mathias — Tue, 29 May 2012 21:24:00 +0000

Chives in full bloom in our herb garden The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth,–One is nearer God’s heart in a gardenThan anywhere else on earth. I feel the deepest peace, the deepest joy when I am alone in my garden, and the birds sing. What ecstasy!! A […]

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The First Rumours of Spring in my garden!

Anita Mathias — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:06:00 +0000

Bluebells (wood hyacinths) popping up These snowdrops have been in flower for several weeks. Tiny yellow flowers on this shrub.Please identify!! Winter aconite in the leaf litter Arum italicum — just leaves at the moment, but produce white or pale green flowersand luscious poisonous red seedhead Hellebore hybrid from Ashwood — this one is called […]

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Views from our Garden: From the Rising of the Sun to its Setting, let the Lord be Praised

Anita Mathias — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:37:00 +0000

The Garden of our Lives It’s seed-planting season, and we’ve started our basil, parsley and coriander indoors. There’s a kind of inevitability to it–plant a basil seed, get basil; plant a sunflower seed, well, get sunflowers. When we look at the garden of our lives, our life as it is, with its components of family, […]

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Garden pictures on Nov. 20th, and personal Facebook updates

Anita Mathias — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:14:00 +0000

Ragged courgette plants may produce one last harvest Houttuynia (a variegated herb) Pigeon’s nest exposed by the falling grape leaves One last yellow Buddleia Pepper plant to be brought into the conservatory Parsley flower/seed head Duck drying off A last strawberry Pak choi (Bok Choi) Apple mint seed heads (left for the goldfinches) Medlar (Eastern […]

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To look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room,

Anita Mathias — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Close up of cherry blossom from the paddock. Share on site of your choice … Wikio Part of the row of cherry trees we planted in our paddock in the winter of 2006 Luther famously was asked what he would do if he knew the world would end on the next day. Looking out of […]

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