Guest Blogging for The Herb Companion Magazine!

There is a wonderful botanical garden at the beach!  So if you are like me and can't be on the beach all day, there is hope for you too!  So here is the post from my latest guest blogging for The Herb Companion magazine concentrating on herbs.  The garden is right across the street from the Miami Beach Convention Center.  It is a city block, but there are lots of different spaces and varied plants.  Here are some different looks!   Water is a necessary element and it was 90 degrees on the day we visited!  They have a small Japanese inspired garden.  The cactus from the Southwest reminded me our anniversary trip last year.  The final two pictures are of an orchid wall behind a small stage where they hold special events.  If you ever get the chance to go to Miami Beach, check out the Miami Beach Botanical Garden!

Herbal Sculpture!

This is an 'African Blue' Basil.  I had to make the photo X-large to emphasize the beautiful flowers that are still hanging on.  I'll get a closeup later for you.  The Herbal Husband has been babying this plant, because it would have been long gone if it had been in the garden!  When it is out on the patio, the bees are still going crazy for it.  Hope you have great fall weather where you are!

Last Blooms of the Season!

Can't believe I'm sitting here in shorts and a t-shirt in November.  Last year was also a great day and I even made a small herbal bouquet for the table.  I still haven't gotten up in our attic for my winter clothes.  Glad the semi-warm weather has hung on!  Working on the laundry as well.

I mentioned the nasturtiums hanging on the retaining wall, so the first flower is a nasturtium.  I had it in my salad last night.  Of course, next is the 'Fairy' rose.  I went back this morning and it is still hanging in, but I think it is about done.  The tansy bloom (TANSY IS NOT AN EDIBLE FLOWER) is next and I fondly remember all of the ladybug activity this year.  It was exciting!  Last but not least is the mighty calendula.  I have them everywhere now and they are a great fall bloomer.  So I think will go out and make an herbal bouquet for the table!  Talk to you later! 

Thank You Laura of Wildenblue Farm Journal!

It must be the rule of the Friendship Award to give it to bloggers who are having busy times in their lives!  The Herbal Husband and I were away in Miami Beach when I spied my Friendship Award from Laura of Wildenblue Farm Journal.  Thank you so much Laura!  As it made your day, it made my day from far away!
So I needed to think of six blogs that fit the rules.

The rules of this award-

This award is bestowed on to blogs that are exceedingly charming.

These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends.

They are not interested in self-aggrandizement.

Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.

Please give more attention to these writers.

Deliver this award to six bloggers who must choose six more and include this cleverly written text into the body of their award.

So here are my choices for the Friendship Award.  The girls who started my blogging experience, Nancy and Susanna and who feel like family from Rosemary's Sampler; my British friend, Alan from Seeking Episteme, he was a follower of mine from early on and has beautiful views of where he lives and childhood memories from England; Cindy, who is high energy and who writes to her sweetie and lets us read over her shoulder at Texas Tufa; Jules who writes about her life, her love (he sometimes writes too), her family and her animals at Mooncat Farms Meanderings; Martha, the hostess with the mostest (I don't need to say more!) at Lines from Linderhof and Julie, the artist, designer extraordinaire from Julie's Jabbers.  Hope you all know how special you are and give me a smile, a laugh out loud and sometimes a tear!  Please give this award to six other bloggers who have impacted you in some way!  Let's keep it going! Be sure to check out the six I have selected.

Herbal Highlights in November!

The bright silver plant is a sage Salvia officialis 'Nazareth' from Sal Gilbertie Herbs in Connecticut.  The great thing is that a few local nurseries are starting to carry unusual herbs from Gilberties'.  Yeah!  Hopefully, it will stay through the winter.

Most of my scented geraniums are gone, but this one has survived, the apple scented.  I know a lot of you take cuttings, but we don't even have room for those!

The Dutch nasturtiums are toast, but some of the other nasturtiums on the retaining wall are still green and producing a flower or two!  Hope your herb garden has some highlights as well!

Remembering Veterans!

These are our wonderful friends, Jim and Laverne visiting our garden this summer.  Today we are taking them to see the movie "Amelia." and going out to dinner.  Remember to honor those who serve our country every day and remember those who lost their lives at Fort Hood!

What's Behind Those Blinds?

OK, we are back, barely!  I'll let you know later what's behind these blinds!  Stay tuned!

Yes, dear readers, we went to Miami Beach, specifically South Beach.  If you really knew me, you would ask why?  Most of my master gardening friends were shocked!  I got to pick our anniversary trip last year to Arizona.  So it was only fair that The Herbal Husband got to pick this year.  If you want a foreign vacation and don't have a passport, Miami will work for you!  The Herbal Husband splurged for a ocean front room.  It was really beautiful.  Oh, almost forgot we stayed at the Winterhaven South Beach.  We would recommend it highly.  It is away from all the craziness and noise down the street.  It is located on 14th Street and Ocean Drive.  We also got a great rate on the ocean front room from booking.com.  It was a beautiful room with a view.  This is the hotel and another view from the roof deck where you can go to get that golden tan!  I was covered up most of the time!  I want to thank Laura of Wildenblue Farm for my friendship award and I will get my act together shortly and both comment and do a post to share the friendship award! 

Taking An Herbal Timeout!

Now that I have finished my flowers, The Herbal Husband and I are going to take a short break from blogging.  We will be back in a flash.  So talk amongst yourselves and enjoy my favorite blogs in my sidebar.

Guest Blogging for The Herb Companion Magazine!

Now that I have whined about Christmas before Halloween.  I sent my post for The Herb Companion magazine about Thanksgiving!  They posted it before Halloween!  Do I eat crow?  Maybe I have to eat these lovely sage flowers!  Edible flowers remember?  Hope you enjoy my post about Peru and Thanksgiving a few years ago.