Tuesday Garden Party-Chrysanthemums

Hello dear friends,
I am so glad you are here, browsing, reading and commenting.
Today I'd like to show you some gardening I did over the weekend. I love flowers and plants. I don't mind getting my hands dirty. Gardening is one of my favorite pass times at home.

This is the time of the year that chrysanthemums are in bloom.
Today, October 26th, is the fete of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki, a 4th century military Saint. Together with St.George they are among the favorite Saints of the Greeks when it comes to giving children a name. Chrysanthemums, blooming around the Saint's day, are also called of St.Demetrius.

I always like having chrysanthemums around this time of the year.
Sunday we went to a nearby garden center. There were so many beautiful blooms around,

Rows upon rows of flowers, waiting for the people who would admire their beauty and pick them, perhaps with a companion, to bring beauty and colour to their homes.

 Red and crimson, yellow and orange, white and violet, so many colours for your every mood and fancy.

From these three, only one made it home with me!.. Which one would you choose? Such a difficult choice :-)

Then it was time to go to pottery fairyland. I would gladly spend an hour there! I got two pots, simple but nicely worked.

Here we are at home, ready to move to a larger pot.

 And here are my two pythoi. I love the handmade stamp at the bottom.

These pots come from the island of Crete, in the South of Greece. They are the best of their kind. With the influx of foreign super markets, we are being flooded with supposedly cheaper Asian pots, with a clay that is of inferior quality, not fired well, and as a result the pots are peeling off. Cretan pots, however, are affordable, hard working and very beautiful in their details. It is so rare to see Greek products anymore, I am thrilled when I come across them.

While we were hard at work, we welcomed a visitor from the neighborhood. Being hospitable Greeks and all, we offered the guy a plate of delicious cat food which he obligingly tasted with due appreciation..

And before we say au revoir, a song for Nature, in English, from an electro-pop Greek group. Find them on Myspace.



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