Eye Spy - inspiration

I get a lot of my inspiration from the cyberworld, and my favourite at the moment is Down___to___earth. Rhonda's almost daily posts on living a simple life are so inspiring. From gardening, baking bread, green cleaning, looking after your chickens to knitting your own dishclothes, I find Rhonda's blog so helpful and she is so generous with sharing information. Her thrifty simple life is something I certainly aspire to. Another great theme from Cindy's Eye Spy...head on over for more inspiration...

Always a great source inspiration are magazines, here is a picture of some mini doughnuts with plum jam we made on the weekend - inspired by the cover this month's V E&T,...they were, in the words of the late, great Joan Campbell, "bloody delicious"....

Good things about winter :: mail order plants

The dormant perennials I ordered from here arrived in the mail today.  Dahlias along with some salvias.  I've never grown many flowers before, so I'm a bit unsure. Especially dahlias as you're supposed to dig them up and store them over winter.   Sounds a bit scary.  But I'm keen to grow some cutting flowers for the house so we'll see how we go. These little pots of dirt with a stick in them will hopefully grow into the stunning Bishop of Llandaff.  Couldn't post those out in summer!