I really couldn't believe it when he told me that these horrid little critters would turn out to be cut little ladybugs....which btw are the ONLY bugs I will let crawl on my hand! typical girl huh?!

Oh rosa, you'd like my shop garden...hehe...I am tempted to put out a few bistro chairs and a table and have lunch in there sometimes!! (I'll see to getting a few piccies up!) It really is my pride and joy! It is still quite new (2 yrs) and needs to 'grow together', if you know what I mean, but its getting there! The shop is actually too small but the garden is the thing that holds me back from seriously looking for another location! At christmas we have every nook and cranny filled with little garden accesories and white mini lights and for our Advent openhouse we have a huge logfire in one of those metal basket((patio fireplace??), and in the spring we have everything filled with bulbs etc. Now in the summer its great to display baskets and pots spilling over with geraniums and perrenials...wanna come and work in my garden?
Sosas, my roses are dying a slow and painful death too

haha, I was actually thinking of collecting some baby-devils and importing them to my garden at home to set them loose on my roses there!