Blog Posts - Gardens

Jerusalem is home to a number of archeological finds with important cultural and religious significance. The Holy City can easily take up a high priority on your bucket list especially if you are religious. It is the birthplace of Islam, Judaism and...

London looks brilliant any time of the year but in the build up to Christmas London dresses up in its very best festive lights and trees pop up all over the city.  I'd love to show you a few of the fabulous sights to enjoy right now in London. &...

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I recently bought some aerial plants to decorate my lanai. If I'm not mistaken, these are called "pakpak lawin".  This kind of aerial plants are really good for outdoor rooms and porches.  I used to have these before hung on our terrace but...

I have made these cute DIY garden accessories out of empty plastic bottles.  The idea came out when I saw our plastic bottles at home accumulating in number.  I saved all these in a big plastic container until I have the free time to make t...

To experience a bad day is to be a human.   No matter how well we plan, things can go off the rails.    One bad thing leads to another and like dominoes, everything crashes and we wonder why we even bothered to get out of bed.   W...

Scary ghouls and goblins, jack-o-lanterns and witches will descend upon Paseo de Roxas, promising not just tricks but also lots of treats at the Makati Street Meet this 23rd of October. Makati will once again prove its distinct city vibe and vibr...

We recently visited Bressingham Steam and Gardens just outside of Diss in Norfolk.  The collection of steam engines was started in the early 1960's and has grown over the years.  We arrived just before its opening at 10am and was greeted by...

I know, Summer doesn’t really end until September 20, but I’ve lived and worked on an academic schedule for my entire life, so believe me when I say that Summer ends on Labor Day. This year I have mixed feelings: on the one hand, I worked...

Since I added the patio space to my backyard last year, this is the second season I’ve gotten to use it. I'm still so happy that I decided to have it built out. The whole look enhances my backyard so much. Having a screened porch and now a patio ju...

September is the beginning of so many beautiful things! This month, our September moodboard is full of fall goodness and one really big project we are going to feature here on Bliss at Home in the months ahead! We started this monthly post in August...

The photo shows a local Chinese restaurant's interior. Good decoration. Some dishes from this restaurant -- http://www.seo-forum-seo-luntan.com/food/food-from-a-small-local-restaurant/msg29546/#msg29546.

 Decoration of a restaurant named 'Fuego': For some food pictures from this restaurant -- http://www.seo-forum-seo-luntan.com/food/mexican-food-from-a-local-restaurant/msg29524/#msg29524.

For three days in mid-August, I drove out to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens each morning for a course called “Introduction to Maine’s Native Flora.” The course was part of my certificate program in Native Plants and Ecological Horticulture...

The only unified themes of today’s post are the season and the necessity of cleaning out the photograph folders on my phone, camera, and computer: everything seems very vivid this time of year so I snap, snap, snap away and now I must purge! Th...

Thank you Better Homes and Gardens at Walmart for sponsoring this post. All my opinions about their beautiful products, are my own.   Last month I was super fortunate and got to visit the Better Homes and Gardens headquarters again, in Des Moine...

Firstly I have to apologise for the length of this blog, we have visited lots of gardens, but I don't think we have visited one that is so large and so well kept, especially with the wet warm spring and early summer we have had so everything has been...

La Mortella (Italian: place of myrtles) is a private garden located in Forio-San Francesco. Was first opened to the public in 1992 and was created by Susana Walton (1926–2010), wife of the composer William Walton, in 1950 as the...

Welcome to the 2016 version of my 20’x40′ garden plot!  Well, one of them anyway. Please enjoy the horrible pictures that go along with this post.  Hopefully your attention will be diverted away from the bad photography by the scintilla...

Where ever the Queen goes she is always a focus of attention, so whatever she wears is going to be talked about; remember the fuss over her rather bright green outfit at this year's Trooping the Colour?  When you visit Buckingham Palace this yea...

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