A couple of days before we made our way back to England, we decided to pop to my grandparents’ house to spend the afternoon with them. We usually go for long country walks with them, so we took Amy’s balance bike with us, but the weather wasn’t on our side, so we decided to spend time in the garden to not be too far away in case it started raining.
Amy loved my grandparents’ garden as much as I did when I was younger. She walked around the flower bets admiring the different petal shapes and colours, trying to sneakily pick some of them when my Nan wasn’t looking – she’s a brave one this girl.
I never dared to go anywhere near my Nan’s flower beds when I was little. I knew from quite an early age that they are somewhat sacred to her, so I stuck to digging up potatoes while my sister liked collecting dead leaves with my nan, making sure that everything looked pretty.
And pretty it is still now, almost 15 years later. My grandparents are 83 and 79 now and so passionate about their gardens that you won’t ever find a weed there or anything overgrowing. And yes, I said gardens. They have a big garden at the back of their house and another one in an allotment about 10 minutes walk away. It has a bungalow with a big living space and a bathroom in it and when we were little we spent all day there playing in our sandpit, enjoying BBQs or helping out.
When Amy saw that there were tomatoes to be picked, she instantly got into little helper mode. She carefully lifted my grandad’s individual mini-greenhouses off each tomato plant and started picking the fruits that my Nan pointed out to her. Her little face was priceless! She was so proud that she was allowed to help and even prouder when she placed the fruits into my grandad’s hands.
Amy now loves her tippies even more (that’s her word for tomatoes, don’t ask me why or where it came from) and I think my grandparents were just incredibly happy that they could pass some of their love for gardening onto their great-grandaughter. 
Amy definitely had a ball and enjoyed spending a day in the country. She chased my grandad’s chickens, collected eggs and brought in her first harvest of fresh tomatoes – what more could you ask for?
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Aww, love this. precious x
Sam @happyhomebird recently posted…Hello November
I love it that they get to create their own little memories together x
Aww what a lovely post. That third picture is absolutely stunning! x
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Aww thank you x
I have so many fond memories of spending time in my Grandparent’s gardens as a child. I have definitely inherited my love of gardening from them. Such lovely times. Your Grandparent’s gardens sound lovely. #CountryKids
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I’m useless with flowers, but I still love digging up new potatoes. Something really satisfying about harvesting your own food x
What a lovely post! Amy looks like she is having such a wonderful time. Your grandparents garden is gorgeous, and how fantastic for them to be able to spend time with their great-granddaughter there. #CountryKids
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She absolutely loved it, Sara. I think, if they had let her, she’d have picked every single tomato in the garden!
What a gorgeous girl, and your grandparents look so bemused by the tomatoes.
Nipping over from Country Kids.
Hehe, I know. They’re very proud gardeners and I think they were a little embarrassed about me taking the pic 😉
Firstly, how lovely that Amy has great grandparents in her life. Their garden sounds lovely and it’s so nice that you can both build similar memories. X
I know, I’m so glad that she has them in her life x
What a lovely post, and wonderful to see your little one having such a great time with her Great Grandparents. How lovely that she will share your childhood memories too 🙂
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Definitely, it made me so happy to see them together.
wow what an amazing place, the flowers are stunning but by goodness the tomatoes looked tasty 🙂
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They tasted better than any tomatoes you can buy in the shops. So flavoursome and juicy x
so lovely to see the gardening bug being passed down the generations!
Although it seems to have skipped me x
What gorgeous photos! Amy is such a cutie 🙂 Some of my favourite childhood memories involve helping my dad in the garden. How lovely that Amy is getting to enjoy a relationship with her great grandparents and sharing their love of gardening! x
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Aww thanks, Wendy. I’m so glad that Amy has great-grandparents in her life. So many of my friends’ children don’t and it makes me quite sad x
I want to become grandparents like yours one day with a huge garden for the grandchildren. It looks such a perfect place to visit and the flowers are beautiful. You must be temped to visit all the time. A delightful Country Kids post, thank you for linking up.
Oh Fiona, I have no doubt that you’ll be an amazing grandma. Your grandchildren will have so much fun on the farm. They will love spending time with you x
Lovely photos!
Thank you x
They must work very very hard. I see how much my next door neighbours are in their garden and there’s still the odd weed – and that’s quite small too. Beautiful flowers and such a lovely memory for you to hold too.
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They really do, they never rest and I honestly don’t know how they do it. Their gardens are meticulous. They were even in the paper with it 😉
Oh that must have been wonderful
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gorgeous pictures. My fav is the one of your grandparents with their tomoatoes. classic!
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Hehe yeah, you can see how proud they are, can’t you?
Wonderful post with gorgeous photos!
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Thank you, I love taking photos x
Your photos are beautiful – very professional!
Thanks, Tracy. I’m trying to put a little more effort into them now x
It’s so nice that grandparents are around to share with your little one.
it is, I’m really grateful for it, although we don’t see them nearly enough seeing that they live in Germany x
So lovely to involve them and introduce them to a lifetimes love of gardening at this age, and to spend valuable time with grandparents too! Beautiful pictures as well! Hope you had a lovely trip! Emma 🙂
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Thanks Emma, we had a great time and they all thoroughly enjoyed each other’s company x
I love this – not just the getting Amy involved in gardening but also the older generation in the photo – priceless x
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Hehe, I know. The photo makes me smile every time I look at it, it’s just so them 😉
Absolutely stunning colours!! They clearly take great care! My grandad loved his gardens and was always growing fruits and veggies… unfortunately the green fingers did not make their way down to me as I am useless in the garden!x
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Haha, I’m useless as well, especially at keeping flowers alive. Let’s hope Amy inherits more talent 😉
So pretty and wow your grandparents don’t look their age at all, glad Amy had fun x
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Wow what a beautiful place – it looks like you had a wonderful day. I think I used to chase my uncles chickens when I was kid lol x
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