Just one tea cup and saucer to show you today. There were many that I resisted buying though! This is another "made in Japan" set.
I liked this little tray and I think I'll use it often. It's just the right size ( 6 X 12").
It was made in Romania.
I find this cup so pretty. The pattern is "Orchid" and it's made by Grosvenor.
The pole beans are still producing. These are Rattlesnake beans. Back when M was either in kindergarten or grade 1 each child planted one bean in a clear plastic cup so they could watch them grow. He brought his home and we planted it with the other beans. It produced a lot of beans and ever since we've kept some aside to sow for the next year.
The Japanese Anemones are blooming. They are so invasive that we have them in a bed between two sidewalks. I've read that there's a pure white kind that is not as vigorous but haven't seen it around.
I discovered a Hollyhock growing in an odd corner and it's not a colour I've ever had. In the picture the flower looks more cream and pink. Actually the cream part is quite yellow. I'm definitely going to save the seeds.
Well, today's post is a bit of everything.
Thanks for coming by.
And a special thanks to those who leave a comment.
Granny M.
Interesting to see the little holes in the saucer. Makes it look lacy. Pretty.
ReplyDeleteVery NICE tray and your blooms are beauties.
I like the history of your rattlesnake beans. Cool.
ReplyDeleteI just love cups and saucers... you have so many beautiful pieces... the little green eyed monster is peeking. The little dish is very pretty too.
ReplyDeleteI cant wait to have a garden so I can grow my own beans. I think they taste delicious just picking them off the vine and eating them there and then
Phoebe x
I like a post that has a little bit of everything...love the teacups. The green beans look good! And I don't think I have seen that color hollyhock before...it sure is pretty.
ReplyDeleteThe saucer with the first tea cup is amazing! Thanks for sharing your tea cups!!
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Very pretty collection of teacups.
ReplyDeleteThe anemones are very pretty and that is a lovely color combination on the hollyhock.
How lovely to find a hollyhock, and what a pretty colour it is.
ReplyDeleteYour teacup is exquisite!
ReplyDeleteLove your hollyhock. Do you always save your own seeds? I remember collecting seeds from the 4 o'clock flowers me mother used to grow, as well as from the Summer Geraniums in my grandmother's garden ... somehow I've allowed that practice to die. :( I hope to revive it someday again once I have room for a garden.
Blessings~
So very pretty! Your teacup and saucer, plus the sweet tray, as well as all the flowers.
ReplyDeleteThe saucer with your first tea cup is very pretty.
ReplyDeleteHow cool that you have gotten so many harvests from that one little bean plant. A very good gardening lesson for M.
That hollyhock was a lovely surprise and so pretty.
Oh such pretties....I've often wanted to plant Hollyhocks, maybe in the spring. They are lovely.
ReplyDeleteI'm having trouble accessing your blog, Faith. I wonder if you're having trouble with scammers again. I hope not. I miss your posts.
DeleteI'm loving the Japanese tea cups you're finding! Those rattlesnake beans are very interesting!
ReplyDeleteLovely teacups! Love that tray! (I am partial to Romania!) And how neat about the beans and the history and those flowers are lovely
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely post. I love your hollyhock and it looks so healthy. Something around here always makes the leaves on mine fill with holes and look like lace, but not pretty lace. I keep trying to figure out a safe way to spray them or feed them to change this. Any ideas? I have never seen one the color of yours either. Do you think the birds gifted it to you? I have grown rattle snake beans, they do very well around here; they're a very old heirloom bean.
ReplyDeleteYou find the prettiest tea cups and I love the platter . . . your collection is very impressive. I do hope you use them all from time to time and don't just put them on a shelf. A sweet lady like you deserves to be drinking her tea from a beautiful cup every day :)
reply from the sweet comment you left on my blog about my remembrance quilt for my mama: Thank you so much . . . now I'm going to slow down and try to put more meaning into each block. It has been a project that i've been thinking about for a few years, but just didn't know how to get started.
oooh how I love the color of your hollyhock! Your teacups and saucers are so very pretty! Love the little tray as well!
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are lovely, esp. those anemones. I wouldn't mind if they took over at my house :)
ReplyDeleteHollyhocks are so pretty! Your surprise blooms are stunning.
ReplyDeleteAs always, I enjoy our visits back and forth. I'm up and running, after contemplating closing it down and calling it a day. But then they win don't they? And I would surely miss our conversations, and refuse to give that up. So here I am.
ReplyDeleteHollyHocks, do you start them from seed, or can you buy plants? So pretty and ever so vintage....
I bought 2 plants a number of years ago, also got some seeds from a friend who had a colour I didn't have. These all began to grow and bloom and self-seed, often mixing new colours. Hollyhocks don't bloom the first year, as a rule.
Deletebeautiful Hollyhock! That color is so unusual! I wonder if the seeds will be the same??
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