Best thing about 2014?
“My first homerun.” (The Spy)
Baby at the baseball game of the Spy’s first homerun in 2014
Best thing you ate from the garden?
Smoochie and the Spy say, “Pumpkin Pie!”
Rouge Vif d’Etampes Pumpkin Pie
Best Harvest?
Pumpkins!
Also a great garlic harvest in 2014!
Best addition to the garden?
Garden Living Room Furniture (made by Smoochie)
Garden Living Room Furniture in Progress
Best Outing?
Shaw Nature Reserve every time! Shaw Wildflower Market in May, The Meramec River in Shaw in December, Shaw in July (the wildflowers!!!) Shaw Nature Reserve is the #1 Spy Garden Don’t Miss St. Louis Garden Outing Destination!
This tree climb was also a pretty cool outing!
Best Plant of 2014?
I’m voting for the Eucalyptus.
Eucalyptus
Smoochie says, “The blackberries”
Mmm…
Best wildlife photo?
A fox!
Best Photo of 2014?
Monarch in Spy Garden
Monarch Cocoon!
Pumpkin Yoga
Best Media Moment?
Spy Garden 2014 featured in St. Louis Homes and Lifestyles Magazine
Click here to read about Spy Garden in the November/December 2014 issue of St. Louis Homes and Lifestyles Magazine!
Favorite Blogs of Spy Garden?
Draped in Cloudlets (source of image)
BohemeSF (source of text/image)
Sweet Domesticity (source of image/text)
The Road to Serendipity. Sanctuary (source of image)
Photo of a Cedar Waxwing by Eliza Waters (source of image)
GardenGrab, Nothing by the Book, funnybeautiful, You’re So Mummy, Design Mom and Nest of Squirrels are a few more favorites of Spy Garden!
What were your Spy Garden favorites of 2014?
Thank you all for visiting Spy Garden and hope to see you here in 2015!
A few more favorites from 2014…
Baby on the Fourth of July
Can you spot him? The Spy at the St. Peter’s Formation
Spy Sister! On the cover!
Easter 2014
Pre-game (can you spy the gnome?)
Petite Dauphine de Spy Jardin
Great hike in Colorado!
Spy Garden April 2014
Scouting the location of Squirrely Garden January 2014
Sunflower Seeds
Spy Garden 2014
Happy New Year Ms Spy and here’s to 2015 being a most magnificent melding of magic and possibilities for us all :)
Happy New Year to you and yours and especially Sanctuary! Warmest Regards from the “S”-named garden of the north ;)
Great recap – a full year of growth and activity at Spy Garden. Thanks for the pingback. Hope 2015 is filled with great blessings for you all!
Happy to share; love your photos! Happy New year and blessings to you and your family in 2015!!
Thank you!