Everything has bloomed early this year. 
The lilies are usually blooming by the end of June.  They began this year in early June.

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To Register

Feng Shui Garden in early morning light.
June 5, 2010.  The Evening Primrose are blooming
over a month earlier than usual.  That's the holy garden shed in the background.

Torma investigates the path at the beginning of the Feng Shui Garden.
 

Lady's Mantle and stone lantern in Feng Shui Garden.
WVU Journalism Students visit to do Capstone Class project (multi media) on April 23, 2010
Click here for audio, video, news story by Brian Young, Karilyn Galiotos and James Carbone,

Entrance to Big Fragrant Garden after
excessive weeding for Clarksburg Exponent
photographer!  See Sunday Clarksburg Exponent June 20th Feature on La Paix.

Big Fragrant Garden 7:30 a.m. June 18, 2010.
 

Thyme Bed in Big Fragrant Garden - close up.
Rosemary in Pots - kept in unheated greenhouse
in winter.

Japanese Fern in Sanctuary Garden.
 

For photos of  La Paix Gardens in July,
August and September 2007, click here
Photos of July 08 lavender harvest
Beginning!   2008 Garden Photos - new!
Lavender Fair 2008: "Love & Learn"
June 28th, 2008     Photos  are ready to view!
Photographs of the Lavender Fair 2007   click here. and here
Photos of La Paix Gardens Spring and Summer 2009 here

Proposal for an International Peace Museum at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

For workshop and tour information,
click here  

 Recycled Goat Shed now Holy Garden Shed

The Labyrinth at La Paix.  May 28, 2010.  After Re-
Dedication by ten wonderful friends.  More information on Link to left - Silver Labyrinth.

Another view of the newly renovated Labyrinth at
La Paix with Celtic birdbath and crystal from
Kathleen in the key.

And here are the friends who helped: Front Row:  Ashly Wiley, Silvia Bresso, Anne Romance, Laura Yokochi.
Back Row:  Myra (me), Jan Myers, Angela Eib, Kathy Flewelling, Denise Poole.  Never was there so much love in the labyrinth - something I will remember my whole life.!

Sheila McEntee, Editor of the Wild Wonderful
West Virginia magazine has written a
wonderful feature on Paix Herb Farm in the
June 2007 edition.  It can be
obtained at the La Paix Shop or free with $25. purchase or more on the Shopping Cart. 
It is also on the website at: 
Wonderful West Virginia

June 18, 2010:  The bathtub needs some more material!
But I took a shower in it a few nights ago and it was
delightful!  Big Rosemary plant in tub.  Chives and catnip in foreground.

La Paix Gardens Spring 2010 - Photos of La Paix's Gardens early, spring, annual decorating of the bathtub in the garden and Wisteria blooming.  Plus archeological dig yields hand cut stones in backyard. 


Big Fragrant Garden looking east toward morning sun.
 

Photos of Lavender Fair 2009
Jill Stewart, Creative Exposure Photography click here

Lemon Balm Bed framed by Mimosa almost lost in winter's
fury. 

A distillery, purchased through a USDA
SARE grant, is used to distill many of the
fragrant, culinary and medicinal herbs
and plants grown at La Paix.

Early morning light in woods south of Fragrant Garden at
La Paix

Early Morning June 18, 2010 - the Vegetable Garden which needs weeding and weeding and weeding -
My Garden of Weeden'.  But.....harvested kale, lettuce, peas, radish and one garlic pulled by mistake.  Wheelbarrow in foreground was piled high with weeds by Noon.  I quit then!

For more photos of La Paix's Gardens and Woods in 2008,  click here
See  note cards and prints from original paintings by the Steward of La Paix:  Click Here

Prints for sale:  Click Here

Check out Ovation TV for more photos of my art

Big Fragrant Garden looking west on day of Labyrinth
Re-Dedication May 15, 2010.

Apprentice Program 2010 - I will be taking only day trippers as apprentices (those who can commute from home) in 2010.  Please click here for apprentice information and application.
Please click here for former apprentice comments

Photos ©by R. Tom Sizemore
La Paix's woods 2004
click here for more photos of the woods

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Myra Bonhage-Hale, Steward, La Paix Herb Farm