My daughter and I walked into our local supermarket the other day to be greeted by this happy scene: The local dahlia society had set up a cheerful display of the most perfect blooms.
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I spent the long weekend dilly-dallying in the farm garden, basking in gloriously sunny, winter weather ...
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The garden is not at its best after a very wet summer. We have lost plants to fungal diseases, the roses are covered in black spot, and the pests and bugs are having a grand old time! So I have to work a bit harder to see the beauty!
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Holidays mean a break for me from the routine of chasing about after kids, and time out to lose myself in my garden, and smell my roses which are always so beautiful across the summer.
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My find for this week is a gorgeous song called 'Bloom' (!) by The Paper Kites, an up-and-coming Indie band out of Melbourne.
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I love to take macro shots of my flowers, but I thought with these photos that I would also pan back and give you a sense of place - some context as to where each of my flowers sits within the garden. Enjoy!
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Outside my window ... man, who's got time to gaze out the window?! Just as well this week has been short, because it's been way too busy. When last I had time to look, I saw this:
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We are accommodating and catering for twenty-five across the Easter weekend, including a small army of children, so the last week has been a flurry of activity. I sneaked a quiet walk around the farm garden before the family descended and the rowdy fun begins!
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This is the final post of my farm garden tour. Today we'll wander about the side of the house, and to the vegetable garden out the back. Last post, we walked along the front of the house and turned left at the silver birches. If we take a right turn instead, across the stepping stones, we head down the eastern side of the house.
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I am glad so many of you are enjoying our walk through the garden. Thank you for all your kind comments on my last two posts. Feel free to ask questions as we walk! Passing across the front of the house, you look left over the front lawn to a stand of lemon scented gums.
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I left you, a week ago now, stranded at the front entrance to our farm garden. I'm sorry - my garden tours are never speedy.
Welcome! On your right is the first of a few Manchurian pears, beautiful in spring bloom ...
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Let me take you on a little tour - it could take a few posts! We'll start at the front-drive. Chinese liquidambers are planted either side of the drive, to eventually create an avenue that you will drive through. I use strawberries as a groundcover down the drive - pretty and productive! There are rows of agapanthus behind the strawberries.
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We are expecting rain and temperatures are slowly dropping, so I thought I should get some bloom photos in before they pack themselves away for winter. These are some of my treasured & unusual plants at our farm garden.
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I have returned from a month at our farm with a 'cocky's suntan' from many hours in the garden. Despite a hot Aussie summer, our garden is coping quite well, and my roses greeted me with their unparalleled beauty yet again. They are so resilient & undemanding.
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here are just a few more roses in bloom at my farm garden right now - I couldn't resist a little French title for this post considering so many of these roses are French Delbards!
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A relatively warm winter in Australia means the roses are out early. Yay! Here are some of mine from my farm garden. Perhaps you can smell them?
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The roses are blooming away happily in our farm garden, oblivious to the impending cold ... and the autumn leaves are starting to colour.
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Yes, I probably need to get out more! But I was very excited to find, on a quick trip back to our farm garden on the weekend, that my Josephine's Lily (Brunsvigia josephinae) had shot up two wondrous flower spikes for the first time.
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Jan has identified my beautiful unknown rose as 'Albertine', a stunning, large climber, bred in France in 1921.
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We were back at the farm on the weekend for a birthday camping sleepover (hmmm, more like 'talk-over'!) for my newly 13-year-old daughter.
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