Monday, May 29, 2017
Enjoying the Hunt
I have enjoyed a hiatus of several years, guess about 15 years. I am still growing and designing perennial flower gardens but not with the gusto as I once had.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
Life in Limington, Maine.
Well it is 3 days after Thanksgiving and my company has left. Here at Cliffwood, life goes on but winter is right around the corner and so is Christmas. I plan to hunker down and do some Christmas sewing.
Because I haven't blogged for several years, I'll bring my friends up to date. I retired in March of 2011 and enjoy retirement by gardening in the warm month and sewing, quilting in the winter months. My newest passion is learning to sew on a treadle sewing machine which is a 1929 Singer treader. So far I have made my granddaughter an oversized dolly blanket. In addition, my husband has purchased a second treadle machine for me. It is a 1914/15 Redeye Singer treadle machine and he picked up a fancy wooden cabinet for it. I am so happy about my treading experiences!
So, please stay tuned for more as I blog about my days in the rest of 2012!
Yours fondly,
Grammie Donna
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Experiencing Some Difficulties
I'm a gardener first and not a computer nut. In fact, I am so bad, my daughter has fixed my BLOG Page so I can once again post what I am doing in the gardens at CliffWood.
I will post this little note. If it posts successfully, I will update you once a week.
As you can see, I am posting a picture of my little cottage that houses my garden tools and pots during the winter months here in Maine. During the summer, it wears garden clothes in the form of anything "garden" that I decorate it with. Hope you enjoy this picture and hopefully this will post.
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Summer Sale At CliffWood on June 30th
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Just Practicing. . .
Hi everyone,
I'm practicing by typing a "new post" and going solo. I have a sheet of directions and I will try to be careful and conquer this frightful step alone. My daugher, Lisa, who makes her living in the hi tec industry, has set this page up for me. I hope to bog often. That's it for now.
I think I have mastered uploading a picture into a blog. Thank God that my daughter is so smart. Oh yes, look at the picture at the top of this blog. . . I'm the old lady in the lavendar and my sweet daughter is in the blue sweater. As you can see we visited the Fryeburg Fair this fall. We have gone to the fair together the last 2 years. We love looking at the handwork, i.e., knitting which she is an expert at and the quilting that I am starting to become good. We also enjoyed the tractor pull, the horse barns and the fiber arts building. I will blog more later. . . now if only I knew how to post this? ? ?
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Welcome to Cliff Notes!
Cliff Notes is the blog that accompanies the CliffWoodGardens.com website. Cliffwood Gardens is a private home with beautiful gardens and yearly hosts a garden tour, with a different theme. Check here often for helpful notes about gardening and upcoming events at Cliffwood.
Read an excerpt from the story of Cliffwood Gardens below:
The story behind CliffWood
The story of CliffWood Gardens goes back to 1969 when Donna Wood married Clifford Sawyer. Living in a small apartment, there was no place to plant flowers, but unbeknown to both Cliff and Donna a great hunger for growing flowers was beginning to ignite. The spark that set the fire burning was a wooden shipping box that Cliff brought home from work for his young wife. Donna planted her first flowers in that make-do wooden box and the flame has been burning brightly ever since.
By the time the couple moved to their new home in Limington, Maine, in 1971, Cliff had promised his wife she could have all the flower gardens she wanted. Today 20 gardens dot the grounds at CliffWood's 2.3 acre site and this husband and wife team compliment each other's talents when it comes to the gardens. Cliff builds all of the wooden and metal structures used in and around the yard and Donna designs and plants the gardens. Many antique plants used in the gardens are from Donna's late mother. An antique rose bush named "My Grammie Thayer's Rose" flourishes throughout many of the gardens. This rose is special because it came from the property purchased by Donna's grandmother (Minnie Thayer) in 1905.
Each of the 20 gardens has a name and Donna's whimsical personality is evident throughout the gardens. Country-type ornaments are scattered about and numerous containers explode with color each season.
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