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28 Jul 2010

Swallowtail in the raspberry patch

Tags: butterflies, gardening, gardens, insects, raspberry patch, swallowtail butterflies, wildlife
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Environment, Family, Nature | 1 Comment

What a joy to watch. A pleasant change from the snake visiting the raspberry patch….

21 Jul 2010

A Beautiful Day

Tags: beautiful, blackbirds, flowers, friends, gardening, gardens, green, humming birds, natural gardening, pigs
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Nature, Writing | 5 Comments

A beautiful day with a beautiful friend in his stunning wildlife garden.

08 Jul 2010

My Little Nature Friends, Pepe, Peeps and Pippin

Tags: characters, creative, flowers, gardening, gardens, growing poppies, Illustration, inspiration, kids, lavender, magic, marghanita Hughes, Nature, nature photography, peeps, pepe, photography, poppies, poppy seeds, wild flowers
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 11 Comments

I seem to be meeting a lot more friends in nature these days. Meet my latest Poppy friends…. Pepe Peeps And Pippin. Pepe, Peeps and friends dancing among the Lavender. Nature is an endless source of inspiration for me. What nature buddies have you come across lately?

04 Jun 2010

Gardening Fun with Kids-Sticks & Snails

Tags: fun in the back yard, gardening, gardening with kids, gardens, healthy eating, kids, kids gardening, mother nature, Nature, outdoors, play, snails, veg
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Environment, Nature, Writing | 7 Comments

Chloe was checking the raspberries when she spotted a snail. She gently picked it up and placed it away from the raspberries and vegetable patch. It seemed very HAPPY in it’s new location. Meanwhile, Samuel got to work making his vegetable identification sticks. Using a sharp knife,

28 Apr 2010

Share a Magical Moment Outdoors with Kids

Tags: beauty, blossom fairies, butterflies, butterfly girls, children, children and nature, Dragonflies, dragonfly boys, education, educational, Environment, fairy video, Flint, flower fairies, flower fairy video, garden, garden fairies, gardening, jasmine, learning, little humbugs, little humbugs video, lucy, magic, magical, magical fairies, may festival, mystical, natural, Nature, outdoors, photography, play, sunrise, tree fairies, video
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature | 11 Comments

Watching the Sunrise is Magical! Watching the sunrise, has a certain magical quality about it that awakens one’s primal instincts. High up in their blossom hideaway, Butterfly Girls and Dragonfly Boys gaze at the beautiful sunrise, casting warm rays of light on Mother Nature waking up. Enjoy

21 Apr 2010

I am so in love…

Tags: Blossom, blossom butterfly girl, blossom fairy, blossom on the trees, blossom wedding, butterfly fairies, butterfly girl crown, butterfly girls, children, doll, Environment, fairies, fairies in the garden, flower fairies, flower girls, garden, garden photography, gardening, girly, green fairies, green weddings, imagination, Isla, natural, natural fabric, natural toys, natural tweed, Nature, orchard, orchard wedding, outdoors, peach trees, photography, pink, pink blossom, pink butterfly, pink fairies, play, playoutdoors, pollen, scotland, scottish butterfly girl, scottish fairy, scottish tweed, spring, spring blossom, The Little Humbugs, tweed, tweed material, wedding
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 10 Comments

…With Mother Nature And my Butterfly Girls are too. They love to collect the Spring blossom to make beautiful smelling potions. Meet ISLA -My Scottish Tweed Butterfly Girl. Discover the MAGIC Mother Nature has to offer… I love my two little Peach trees, a birthday gift from

08 Apr 2010

Gardening for Kids-Your First Vegetable Garden

Tags: chloe the gardener, eco kids, Environment, fruit, fruit and veg for kids, gardening, gardening for kids, grdening club for kids, green gardening, grow your own veg certificate, healthy eating, healthy kids, kids, kids gardening, kids gardening certificate, kids heathy eating, little humbugs, Nature, outdoors, the little humbugs gardening, veg
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 8 Comments

Chloe is super excited to have guest gardener Helen Yoest visit Chloe’s Gardening Club. Helen Yoest is a garden writer and coach through her business Gardening with Confidence. YOUR FIRST VEGETABLE GARDEN by Helen Yoest Have you ever tasted a tomato, picked fresh from the vine, still

31 Mar 2010

Growing plants from seeds is so much fun

Tags: Douglas Green, Environment, fruit, gardening, gardening with kids, greens, healthy diet, healthy eating, healthy kids, helen yoest, kids, kristin crouch, vegetables
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | Leave a comment

Chloe the Gardener is thrilled to have Kristen Crouch visit Chloe’s Gardening Club. Kristin is the host for Eastlink’s television show That Bloomin’ Garden. Her show is geared towards the new gardener in hope that she can encourage someone to try their hand at gardening and further

10 Mar 2010

Gardening with Chloe-Is it just a bunch of dirt?

Tags: chloe the gardener, education, gardening, gardening with kids, happy healthy kids, kids, kristin crouch, learning, Nature, whats in our dirt, worms
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 4 Comments

10 Mar 2010

CALLING ALL OUTDOOR BOYS

Tags: activities, biking, bug hunting, camping, canoeing, culture, dragonfly boys, eco warriors, Environment, fishing, gardening, green, kayaking, kids, kite flying, Nature, outdoors, play, play outdoors, stick hunting, summer, swimming, swimming in the lake, the great outdoors, trails, treasure hunts
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Travel | 13 Comments

RECEIVE A FREE SUMMER ACTIVITY (Printable) BOOKLET (BOYS 2010) CALLING ALL OUTDOOR BOYS -The Dragonfly Boys want to know: WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SUMMER OUTDOOR ACTIVITY? Just leave a comment below telling us your favorite outdoor activity and you’ll receive a FREE PDF printable copy of BOYS SUMMER

16 Feb 2010

Gardening with Chloe – Attracting Butterflies

Tags: attracting butterflies to your garden, butterflies, Chloe, chloe the gardener, connecting kids to nature, conservation gardening, eco, flowers, fun outdoors, gardening, gardening with kids, green, green gardening, insects, kids, natural, Nature, wildlife, wildlife garden
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Nature, Writing | 19 Comments

Welcome to our first post on Gardening with Chloe. Both Chloe and I are super excited to start the series with an inspirational gardener- Carole Brown from Ecosystem Gardening Carole is a Conservation Biologist and passionate about teaching people to manage their properties to benefit the environment,

09 Feb 2010

Discover the Magic of Gardening with Kids

Tags: backyard gardening, bees, birds, butterflies, carrots, Childrens Book Characters, chloe the gardener, connecting kids to nature, flower, flowers, gardening, gardening with kids, gardens, healthy eating, kids gardening, Nature, nature play, outdoors, plants, play, seeds, spring, spring flowers, sunflowers, vegetables, wildlife
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 6 Comments

Want to Connect Kids to Nature? – Grow a Garden With Spring peaking around the corner, I feel compelled to jump outside with the kids and get the garden ready for growing some yummy vegetables, fruits and colorful flowers. I am no expert so I have enlisted

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