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Tropical Hibiscus and Blueberry Bush Blessings

July 20, 2016 By Laura 1 Comment

No one could have known how sad I have been this season, without my gardens to work in, and watch grow.
But I have been. Until I was blessed by surprise, with a Tropical Hibiscus and Blueberry Bush.

Hibiscus-and-blueberry-bush

We had decided to completely overhaul our garden area this year, in an effort and plan to re-plot and grow a lot more of our own food. Although I’ll be the first to admit, there’s been many plans made over the years, that never materialized. And considering we’re deep in July here now, with little accomplished still, I’m losing hope on this one, too.

But I’ve happened to get a lot of joy and satisfaction out of working in the soil and growing things in my gardens over the past years. Growing anything, beautiful or nutritional. This year, however, there has been nothing out there, but dirt.  Then, some gardening-related joy came my way. On two separate occasions, I was given these two very unexpected gifts:

A Tropical Hibiscus and a Blueberry Bush.

And oh, how they helped soothe my little gardenless-woes! I have been loving having them to tend to, and seeing them grow. But what makes them mean the most to me, is where they came from.  Let me tell you a bit about that.

The Tropical Hibiscus

Tropical Hibiscus

This is probably the kind of beautiful plant that I would always want to buy, but never buy for myself. And therefore, I would have probably never had something so bold and lovely.  But now I do.

And how is that? Because . . . . a very special and thoughtful young man in my oldest daughter’s life, surprised me with it. I think he got quite a surprise, himself, by [Read more…]

Filed Under: Faith, Gardening, Life In General, The Big Picture, The Homestead Tagged With: blooms, blueberries, blueberry-bush, buds, flower photography, flowers, Gardening, gardens, health-benefits-of-blueberries, tropical-hibiscus

A simple Summer Treat

July 12, 2009 By Laura 4 Comments

    We threw together this wonderful and simple summer treat on the afternoon of {A}’s birthday, and called it a  Birthday Parfait.

strawberries and blueberries

It couldn’t be any easier to make:

1) Rinse some strawberries and blueberries in the sink.

(Next year we’ll have enough strawberries of our own from our garden, to not have to use store-bought, but these were really good berries, anyway! Big, juicy, and sweet.)

strawberries

strawberries

2) De-stem and slice the strawberries.

blueberries

blueberries

3)  Go through the blueberries real quick , just to make sure there are no smooshy ones, : ) , and also take off any tiny stems still on.

4)  Get out your can of Redi-Whip.

5) In clear cups, layer strawberries, whip cream, blueberries, and more whip cream on the top.

fruit treats

It was just the ‘light-little-something’ we needed that day, to hold us over until dinner.

It’s also perfect to serve on the 4th of July weekend, or Memorial Day weekend, being red, white and blue.

We and the kids loved it so much, we had it again a couple of days later.  But that time, we sprinkled some Grape Nuts cereal on top, and we loved it even more.

Simple. Pretty. Tasty.

And simply pretty tasty.

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Filed Under: Recipes, Treats Tagged With: blueberries, fruit, fruit parfait, fruit-desserts, fruit-treats, healthy-summer-treats, light-fruit-desserts, light-summer-desserts, strawberries

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