STRAWBERRY COCONUT CRISP
Keep IT FRESH, SEASONAL AND GENEROUS, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY – keep IT DELICIOUS!
Keep it Delicious is the home for my fresh, seasonal recipes that are packed full of flavour and colour. It is also a place where I share my thoughts and musings on food and life at Briarwood, in Greytown, New Zealand. Welcome.
~ Marc
![…..[ a tart in a storm ]
Tuesday orange wind warning, what a better day to bake a tart, until there was a power outage for 9 hours. Thursday, red wind warning, dreading the worst but things here in Greytown have gone quite smoothly and relati](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1761195929855-EZ0WA4O9MZTWUPXNFKL9/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ peony passion ]
Peony series capture N°1
A vase on a Monday! The first of the season’s peonies, delivery from the grower 10 days ago and they have only just started to bloom. Of course the first delivery had to be displayed in](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1760937258201-X9GHQZEIVQRUU8IVMC96/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ moody spring ]
The changing moods of spring. A section of the garden that I love, a small shingle path dwarfed by the tall Hornbeam hedges that create the 2 garden rooms, it’s a part of the garden that goes mostly unused and unseen](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1760672225292-J2JETNI7DVASNIU49B7W/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ more tulips ]
Just 1 more capture for Twenty25, I promise!
A favourite capture from last season, both are my all time favourite type of tulip that worked so well potted together.
Tulip ‘Irene Parrot’ (orange)
Tulip ‘Ro](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1760093716349-IB1OPW0ZIWQDY184UETO/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ Tulip - Neglige ]
Tulip series capture N°8
The last of the tulip spam for Twenty 25. Tulip - Neglige. A fringed tulip, amazingly tall with a 60cm stem, creamy white blooms with a bright pink fringed edge.
It’s been such a joy](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1759973137430-JMOXF9FGUHEMC91IH9VV/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ red princess ]
Tulip series capture N°7
Some more tulip spam for you. ‘Red Princess’ dashing & opulent in the garden at Briarwood on a grey wet spring day!
Urns from @stemgreytown
#tulips
#mylifewithbriarwood](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1759289721671-XHGF79B7OQESUL58VL30/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷]
Potted tulips galore! So many, I’ve run of pots/urns to put them in and places to put them!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1759203334284-MT50QUAV0YQHBYDAEBWF/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ Cabanna ]
Tulip series capture N°5
The Cabanna parrot tulip, living up to its reputation in full bloom!
Over sized extravagant flower heads w/ ruffled, curving petals that have deepened every day to a bright fuchsia! Spectacular!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1758585763507-L4J19L0T18LTX8QXG5UA/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ Mascotte Tulip ]
Tulip series capture N°4
One of the first of the Mascotte tulips standing tall in the rain, after all that wind. With its frilly fringe and layers of peony-esque petals I’m looking forward to the others bloomi](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1758506981680-QZ3DPPOU4WCK0E6VKK94/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ blushing pink ]
Blushing pink on a cold spring evening…with 2 day’s of howling spring gales, rescuing my 50cm blooming ‘Cabanna’ parrot tulips from outside was a №1 priority. It seems now I have more potted tuli](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1758264301296-87OIZ8R4FP1UNSP5LTE3/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ potted tulips ]
The first of the potted tulips, re-potted and brought inside. Cabanna parrot tulip, a total ruffly dream, a brushed pink flush on creamy white. Definitely looking forward to them looking the best in full bloom. 10 in this](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1758009825755-2PUGD16SCZ20MRCPO5G8/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[Tulips ’25 ]
The first of this years parrot tulips at Briarwood simple elegance in every bloom!
FYI it’s the first of the tulip spam
#tulips
#mylifewithbriarwood](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1757049239981-UGUUBZR2MAAWR5OYKRLL/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ spring ’25 ]
Early spring: The first of the blossom, in this case greengage plum blossom, foraged on an afternoon drive. This particular plum tree produces plums that taste so horrid so in my eyes I have no problem with grabbing th](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1756589582586-YZDJFGAHEK26WLZTVZZK/image-asset.jpeg)