Tasty Past Times
It’s strawberry time again! Supermarkets are selling a bumper crop at discount prices. I too, am revelling in a bumper crop, but by no means of the same proportions. The little […]
Big Bad Banksia Men
I seem to be on a magical, mystical, memory tour lately. So when I came across a giant banksia tree during my neighbourhood perambulations, I was transported to the books of my early childhood. Memory associations, […]
A Piano in My Mind Garden?
Are you intrigued by the way our minds work? That they work at all truly amazes me. But primarily, I’m fascinated by what is sometimes called a ‘train of thought’. Although, […]
The Social Garden
Useful, industrious, productive, communicative, collaborative, defensive, but most of all social. There were many words that hovered in my head, bee-like, after the research for last week’s post on […]
To Bee Or Not To Bee?
Alright, so the title is a little cheesy. But the question does remain. Where would we be without bees? The gardens of my childhood were filled with bees. Hot summer […]
Dust to Dust
And Outback Australia is full of it! Except of course, in the wet season when it becomes mud – glorious mud. From the ubiquitous bull-dust liberally lacing dry Outback humour, to the […]
The Idea of Home
Have you ever paused to contemplate the idea of home? What it means to you; what it may mean to others? Did your thoughts fly immediately to your house, your garden, […]
The Gift of the Unexpected
I’m apprehensive about leaving my tiny garden, even for a couple of weeks. Aaah! Human hubris I’ve caught you peering over my psyche wall. What will my garden do without me? Will it […]
Light the Way
A weekend away enjoying the natural surrounds of the beautiful Mornington Peninsula in the southern state of Victoria, gave me new ways of thinking about my tiny garden and lit the way […]
Loved, Lost and Found Again
I’ve always coveted the lacy maidenhair fern although I’ve had mixed success growing them. Adiantum spp, or maidenhair is a sought after variety. The word Adiantum comes from the Greek adiantos, which means ‘unwetted’ and […]
