Mother's Daughter

The last two weeks, Nick Adam Lawes shared a collection of garden cat photos with us and we started with Max and then George, Max's brother. After those two handsome boys, I thought it was time to let some girls shine.

Now we have Sofia. Nick wrote, "Sofia is like a ray of sunlight! She’s always delightful and spends lots of time with her mother, Klara"

Klara is pictured below. Nick said, "Klara turned up in my cellar as a tiny kitten. She managed to get pregnant before I could get her sterilized and so I decided I had to keep the kittens. Since Mario’s death she’s become the boss."

You can find more of Nick's photos and about the home restoration at his web site: https://www.fromno19.com/.

And here are some bonus photos of Klara and her pride.

Maximum Cuteness

Nick Adam Lawes shared a collection of garden cat photos with is and we will be parceling them out over the next several Caturday/Saturday posts here. First up is this gorgeous white kitty with a touch of marmalade on his forehead and some dipped on his tail too!

Nick said, "This cat is called Max and he is about a year old and is the youngest of my 9 cats. (I used to have 10, but I sadly lost my Italian cat, Mario, a few months ago at a good age of 15)."

"All my cats and my black German Shepherd Luca (he’s an angel) started out as unwanted or we’re just given to me as kittens.

"Max is originally from Prague and was given to me with his brother George last year. He is extremely loving and comes to find me at night and actually hugs me for hours sometimes. He seems to have developed a lot of his behavior from my German Shepherd and kind of acts dog-like!"

Nick also shared about himself. "I’m English. but I lived in Italy for many years. I ended up in the Czech Republic to restore my father's neglected holiday home and I started building a garden from scratch. A garden is not really a garden without cats and dogs."

  

You can find more of Nick's photos and about the home restoration at his web site: https://www.fromno19.com/.

To the Viktor belongs the spoils...

Back to the cats of Nick Adam Lawes....

Recently, he shared a collection of garden cat photos with us and we started with Max and then George, Max's brother. After those two handsome boys, I thought it was time to let some girls shine - see Klara and Sofia.

This week, we have Viktor. Whom Nick describes as a "Viktor is a real garden cat. He’s shy, but loves being with me when I am working in the garden."

You can find more of Nick's photos and about the home restoration at his web site: https://www.fromno19.com/.

A Real Gardener’s Cat

Last week, Nick Adam Lawes shared a collection of garden cat photos with us and we started with Max. This is George, Max's brother. 

Nick wrote, "He loves the garden and is so relaxed he can’t stay upright even when he’s excited about the prospect of getting a meal. He’s a real gardener’s cat and love being close by when weeding is being done."

  

You can find more of Nick's photos and about the home restoration at his web site: https://www.fromno19.com/.

Top Garden Cats of 2019

Looking back at 2019, we had many wonderful garden cat shares. Here is the top 5 ranked by highest number of page views (in backwards order).

5. The Orange and The Gray
https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2019/02/ginkgo.html
Ginkgo Gardens, an independent garden center in Washington, DC, shared this friendly two-some.

4. Best Friends in the Azaleas
https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2019/04/best-friends-in-azaleas.html
What could be sweeter than two kitties sun-bathing ynder the azaleas? Thanks to Freelance writer, photographer, and editor R.S. Williams of LaGrange, GA, for sharing them.

3. Hachi: A Cat's Tale
https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2019/06/hachi-cats-tale.html
I took this photo myself of a blue-eyed beauty in a garden club friend's garden.

2. Not-So-Bitter Rue
https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2019/07/not-so-bitter-rue.html
Rue is another local, independent garden center cat near me. She was shared by Tim Williams, manager of Greenstreet Gardens of Virginia.

1.  Maximum Cuteness
https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2019/08/maximum-cuteness.html
I knew the second I lay eyes on this photo by Nick Adam Lawes of a cat named Max that is was a winner. Little did I know that all the photos of Max that Nick shared were equally as stunning!

Do you agree with the popular vote? What were your favorites this year?

Handsome Hans

Nick Adam Lawes shared a collection of garden cat photos with us - here is another one of his kitty tribe:

"Handsome Hans. He’s now my oldest cat and is about 7. He’s very independents do is the defender of the house. He’s very loving and somehow lonely. He listens to me and responds to his name."

Mario In Memoriam

Last summer, Nick Adam Lawes shared a collection of garden cat photos with us -- you can see them here. Here is another feline from that collection:

"Found in a box by a field on the outskirts of Milan in northern Italy in 2003, Mario came into my life at precisely the right time. I shared some of my best and worst moments with him. We lived in the centre of Milan and Mario was quite a society boy, but after some holidays together to north Bohemia, he longed to go back to his roots and become a full time country boy!

"2010 we moved to the Czech Republic where Mario insisted on turning the run down patch of grass surrounding our neglected holiday home into an Arts and Crafts style garden.

"Mario was extremely close to me and would sleep under the covers with me at night. He had no time for other people and wasn’t shy in letting them know it! He liked other animals and was always very fair, but wouldn’t put up with arguments amongst the other cats.

"During his life, he spent time in Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, and he’s the only individual other than me I know who’s been to Lichtenstein!

"Over the years being here we’d started renovating the house DIY and building the garden, which Mario oversaw. We also took in a German Shepherd puppy and an ever increasing family of unwanted kittens.

"Mario passed away in my arms earlier this year. Leading up to his death I began to wash him and help him to the toilet... he became sick very quickly and I knew it wasn’t good.

"At the end, I got it. All this time I thought that I had been the one who had loved this grumpy beige cat who just put up with me... moments before he died he reached out to me and I lay nose to nose with my boy - eye to eye with this beige cat who meant the world to me...and when he took his last breath I felt nothing but love and gratitude for having had him in my life.

"We love our cats for a reason. Like all animals, they’re not just animals or pets... they’re individuals with characters and needs and they love, hurt and get jealous... they’re just like us.

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British "Brothers"

Taking a short break from Nick Adam Lawes' cats this week to share with you two personality-filled kitties from Helen Page in Peterborough, UK.

Helen writes, "Charlie and Reggie are both three years old and are not related, but I got them from Peterborough cat rescue when they were kittens."

Container Bed

Nick Brand of Chevy Chase, MD. shared this photo of one of the many cats he saw on his recent trip to Italy.

He wrote: "Here is one in Pitigliano, Italy, a hill town about 100 miles north of Rome."

This joins our series of several other photos showing cats napping and relaxing in containers: https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/search/label/containers

Top Garden Cats of 2020

Looking back at 2020, we had many wonderful garden cat photos and stories to share. I love scrolling back and seeing all those fantastic felines. Please keep on sending them in! One interesting statistic I found in my blog analytics is that after the USA, the top countries that visit this site are: Sweden, Italy, and Germany. Welcome to all who love cats and gardens!

Here is the top 5 ranked by highest number of page views (in countdown order).

5. Tiggs in the Garden
https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2020/08/tiggs-in-garden.html
Alex Dean shared these photos of her cat Tiggs in the garden in Oxfordshire, England. They were taken by Alex's sister Franky Dean, who is studying photography at the moment and she is a true talent at capturing Tiggs' enigmatic personality!

4. The Story of My Life... 
https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-story-of-my-life.html
This post was the rare one not of a submitted garden cat photo. Instead, it is a piece of charming graphic art that many of us cat- and garden-lovers can relate to!

3. Beatrix and Batgirl
https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-tortoise-and-bat.html

Jimmy and Andrew live just up the road from me and I am so glad they shared these photos 

of their two adorable cats in their lovely cottage-style garden.

2. Seasons Change 
https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2020/03/seasons-change.html
These dreamy images by Magdalena Grześkowiak are of her cat, Kate, throughout the seasons. They are some of the most evocative photos we hav shared on this blog.

1. Mario in Memoriam
https://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2019/08/mario.html
Nick Adam Lawes has shared several of his beautiful garden cats with us in the past and this one of his late, beloved Mario touched an emotional chord with many.

Do you agree with the popular vote? What were your favorites this year?