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Given the awful suffering of many across the world right now, I am very grateful to be in good health, to be living where I do and to have a garden to escape to. We have been gardening at our current block for 3 years now. Let me show you a little of what we’ve been up to!
Read MoreWe have been living at our new place for about 15 months now. It feels like progress on the new garden has been tediously slow. But then I look back through the photos!
Read MoreI'm drawn to Victoria's gardens, of which we visited many. I will share some of them in the next few posts. The most special of them belonged to Annie Flowergarden!
Read MoreI suggested at this time 12 months ago that I had all sorts of grand plans for 2016. Little did I know what the year had in store; that my 'grand plans' would go out the window, replaced by other events.
Read MoreThey don't call these blooms 'Winter Roses' for nothing! When the rest of the garden is in its drab, winter dormancy, these angelic lovelies pop their heads up and put on a show.
Read MoreOn my good days, I philosophise with myself about how we arrive in this world with nothing, and will leave with nothing; that houses and gardens are just the 'stuff' we accumulate in between. I lecture myself about materialism, and force myself to refocus on what I have, rather than what I've lost.
Read MoreFrom my garden today ...
Read MoreI am popping my head up from my summer hibernation just long enough to share this lovely thing with you. I spotted it in someone's garden next to Short St Cafe in Dubbo the other day.
Read MoreI get my best gardening done when I'm stressed! Our wheat crop is due to be harvested any day, and it is my job to deal with contractors, organise trucks and generally make it happen. One of the things I do to calm myself is to pop outside into the garden and pull a few weeds.
Read MoreThe mid year school holidays have come to a snowy end in our part of the world.
Read MoreA favourite plant in the garden right now is this beauty: Salvia involucrata 'Bethellii', which I purchased from a plant stall at Ballarat Botanic Gardens a few years ago.
Read MoreI have been keen to dig up my Brunsvigia josephinae clump for several seasons now, but have been procrastinating. The bulbs are rare and I don't want to risk losing them.
Read MoreIn my garden today, and making me happy: Rosa 'Zéphirine Drouhin' in glorious bloom.
Read MoreA winter garden is often dull and uninteresting because so many plants are in dormancy. Over the years, I've intentionally searched for winter-flowering plants to brighten up the dull spots and challenge the gloom.
Read MoreYou can be fairly sure that when my blog is quiet that there is stuff going down at home.
Read MoreOn closer inspection, we found the most perfectly formed nest, carefully constructed on the ground and complete with three pretty speckled eggs.
Read MoreWe took some time out from what seems to have been the busiest school term ever to wander with some lovely friends in their garden on Sunday.
Read MoreSome cheerfulness from my winter garden on what is otherwise a very dull sort of day.
Read MoreHeading off to the coast for a few days with the family, I couldn't pass up the chance to visit the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden. This prospect was greeted with howls of protest from the back seat. "No Mum, no! Not another Botanic Garden. Don't do it"!
Read MoreA very happy day to all mothers today. I hope you have been made to feel special for all that you do for your families.
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