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Cottage Garden Flowers: June in Bloom

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Apricot Foxgloves, Planted to Match the Blush of Baby’s Cheek

 

This is the week of the foxglove, buttercup, peony, iris, pollinator-loving wildflowers, lavender, and the first rose bloom.  The soft, pillowy petals are beloved by all wildlife.  It rains, bathing fuzzy stems in shining dew.  We visit each bloom as it unfurls.  The flowers are helped by glistening insect friends and greet the clouded sun,  “Good morning!”  This is an especially magical time to study and write about the poetry of nature… and of the self.  Our lessons are taken into the garden with a cup of tea and an umbrella.

Sense all around your lovely being.  How do you feel?  What kind of messages are whispering to you?

balance in the dance

Happy Last Days of June!  Love, ~The Botanists at Rose Cottage, Amor Milagre

 

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant drought-tolerant wildflowers for pollinators

 

With each season, our garden renovation design grows in fuller than the last.  We replaced lawns with perennial flowers and edible organic plant foods.  We made fun pathways to explore under arches of towering stems and sweet blooms.  The low buzzing hum increases, and new winged friends stay a while.

Scatter seeds and wait for your gorgeous surprise!  Life awaits…

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Peonies

 

Let other flowers hold up earlier bloomers…they help as they grow…no prop sticks or twine needed!

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant Flowering Trees, Kousa Dogwood

 

Our first sense of the new flowering trees’ beautiful blooms!  Stars!  (Kousa Dogwood)

 

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, David Austin English Rose

 

Sweet as June, an English Rose…heavenly scent…

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant for Pollinators

 

Planting beds of flowering, fragrant thyme with many pollinator-loving flowers in between is a sustainable way to replace lawns, enjoy your garden, encourage wildlife, and always have healthy organic herbs for the kitchen!  July blooms are coming soon…but we’ll sit and hum with these first…

 

Visit my nature photography and artwork collections to browse more inspiration from our garden.

 

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Build Nature Up

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How can one separate time when it is all at once?  My memory is an ancient one, and I love to get lost in my earliest, most natural memories.  I close my eyes and see green, sparkling green.  My art translates a sliver of these images.  My book characters also dwell here, some in mossy hillside homes, cosy in the Earth, and covered in wildflowers.  Antonia’s Bakery is a such a children’s book.  My Leona novels are from another series that bridges old and new days.  An enchanting new book, featuring more illustrations of natural earthen homes, is coming soon!  In my stories, many ideas for preserving and appreciating nature are shared.

 

Below is a video about bushcraft and loving nature that feels grounding for the viewer.  I came across it this week while doing some research for our woods and cottage garden.  These building techniques remind me of my family now, which is my ancient soul family.  We lived with the Earth and we try every day to get back to that peace.  Remember when building your homes, it is important to use the most natural, non-toxic, and sustainable materials and systems.  This is not only healthy for you now, but for all of the universe in all time periods.  Prevent pollution and heal the Earth.  Grow goodness!  Love, Amor Milagre

Here is another video by a talented woman who made a similar house. I’m not into the lights, but her techniques are wonderful to learn!

 

A Gentle Life Collection

Inspired by Nature

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Quiet the World

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden End Pollution and Violence

Lay down your weapons and melt them to make bridges

Prevent your threats…..listen

No more pollution

Let seeds wander and grow

Respect women and children

Equality and safety for all

Kind empathic leaders are in and the rest are done

Redesign it all to be healing and proactive

Be honest with therapists and journals before you reenter the world, now with positive habits

Unplug the machines and grow organic edible plants

Plant perennials for pollinators in place of lawns

Quiet the world and listen

Listen to bees humming, birds nesting, babies sleeping, your own energy pulsing, and peace sighing

 

Peace is Possible…so easily possible

Love, Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden End Pollution and Violence

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden End Pollution and Violence

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden End Pollution and Violence

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden End Pollution and Violence

 

 

 

 

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Enchanting Rose Faerie Nursery Mobile

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Enchanted Garden Nursery Decor for a magical childhood faerieland.

 

This morning, an idea came to life.  Magical vines danced in the blossom-scented breeze.  Ribbons twirled around a wooden ring.  Dreamy nappers smile up at the rose garden growing above their sweet, inventive minds.

Love to you, from Rose Cottage

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Different textures, shades, colours, sheens, sizes, and shapes make for an overall pleasing effect just as in Nature.

 

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Old souls love to reconnect to past loved practices such as hand-making lovely things for the dwelling.

 

We replaced our long, white canopy fabric with this airy ribbon mobile.

 *To order your custom mobile, please contact me with size, colour, and theme details.

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Pinks, Greens, Lavenders, & Creams:  Various Flowers, Garlands, Lace, And Soft Ribbons

 

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
These rose wedding decor supplies are also beautiful when viewed from below. We wrapped the wires around the frame snuggly and pointed the rose blooms downward to inspire magical dreams.

 

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
A balanced aesthetic looks natural.

 

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Pretty view from snuggleland.

 

Leftovers for Decor, Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Leftover decor loves to adorn new spaces in the home.

 

Tippets for Mice, Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Don’t Forget!  Tippets for Mice, Dollhouse Pixies, and Borrowers.

 

 

Contact me for all custom orders.  We wish you a magical Spring!

 

 

 

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Fine Art Flowers: Pastel & Watercolour Tulips

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Tulip Series

Fine Art Flower Collection

Silky pink tulips are lovely, romantic, and cheerful for all ages and spaces.  Ever so softly, the petals were beginning to fall as I painted them.  This spring-inspired piece is a part of the Tulip Series and the Fine Art Flowers Collection.  Gorgeous anywhere, especially in a nursery.  I priced them to be very affordable for relaxed decorating.  Happy Spring!  Love, Amor Milagre

 

Choose:  Original Art Piece, Art Print 8X10″, and Greeting Cards

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A Gentle Life Collection by Amor Milagre