Happy Tuesday,My Lovelies! Are you enjoying spring so far? We are although we are very busy finishing-up Shelley's senior year.
[br]I don't know about you, but I can't wait to plant. I don't plant until after April 15th because I've lost so many plants in the past. But this year we'll contain to put off planting for a week or two due to school activities.
One of our patio roses is blooming. It is really looking great with tons of foliage:
You can see our garden gate in the background
Our fairy roses are also popping out in our front yard
I am so thrilled with our patio roses that I'm tempted to plant more in pots for our deck and patio:
This lovely is from Star Roses and Plants[br]
Here are two videos showing how to plant roses in pots:
How to plant a rose garden in a pot
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How to plant a double knock-out rose in a pot
I adore floral design, or while I was out shopping I saw these beauties:
Sorry for the dark photo...this display is in a chop window.[br]
This might be my next craft. These are galvanized buckets decoupaged with vintage wallpaper scraps. I would adore to blend wallpaper and pretty 7 Gypsies craft paper for a one of a kind floral container. French flower buckets would work well,too.
Speaking of gardens, Shelley and I will be attending the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and one of this year's productions is my favorite play,A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shelley is nearly finished with her King Lear unit, and once she completes a few sonnet reading and writing assignments, and she will contain finished with her Shakespeare Tragedies and Sonnets curriculum. So proud of her hard work and dedication to complete an entire unit in only one semester! (We're reading A Midsummer Night's Dream just for fun....it's a comedy and not section of her curriculum.)
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Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream as a response to Romeo and Juliet's lukewarm reception. Shakespeare certainly had a sense of humor!
This performance also looks like fun!
Shelley has worked so hard this year,and she has written so many papers. She's facing a super-massive art history exam, so I think her final grade for Shakespeare will be to memorize Puck's epilogue in A Midsummer Night's Dream:
” whether we shadows contain offended, and Think but this,and all is mendedThat you contain but slumber’d hereWhile these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding but a dream, and Gentles,attain not reprehend:whether you pardon, we will mend:And, or as I am an honest Puck,whether we contain unearned luckNow to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue,We will build amends ere long;Else the Puck a liar call;So, or great night unto you all.
Give me your hands,whether we be friends,And Robin shall restore amends.”
I doubt the groundlings gave Shakespeare's Puck "the serpent's tongue." He knew how great this play was when he wrote it. It's a call for well-deserved applause and accolades.
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Until next time...
Blessings!Ricki Jill
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