The Secret Heart of Serendipity
I made a delightful discovery today. While walking down the sideway of our apartment building, I spied a bromeliad with what appeared to be a bloom within a bloom, one […]
I made a delightful discovery today. While walking down the sideway of our apartment building, I spied a bromeliad with what appeared to be a bloom within a bloom, one […]
I haven’t been posting lately. I seem to find excuses not to. Oh, it’s not that I don’t want to. I’ve written many posts in my head, mostly when I’m […]
We encountered a strangler yesterday when we were out walking. I didn’t panic and run for the hills, because the attacker wasn’t the kind that usually comes to mind. But […]
It’s been a while since I posted. But the morning here is sunny and crisp, just right for contemplating my garden. As I pottered about, replanting flower pots and tending […]
It’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Despite living in a subtropical climate here on the east coast, mornings are chilly. Traditionally a less colourful season, winter in my tiny garden […]
According to the old English proverb, necessity is the mother of invention, and that is never truer than in my tiny courtyard. One thing I’ve learned is a garden is […]
… is pleasure multiplied. One of the great joys of being a gardener is the opportunity it gives us to share. Share the interest, share the plants, the successes, the […]
Over the past few seasons many gardeners have lamented the increasing absence of insects, butterflies among them. And then just recently, after extensive heat then flooding rains here in Eastern […]
Cracks are beginning to appear. We’re getting on each other’s nerves, the ‘Woman Who Lives in My Head’ and I. She seems obsessed with the news, the latest depressing COVID19 […]
Patience. The ‘Woman Who Lives in My Head’ has none. Together, we watched breathlessly as the flower spike on my Cattleya orchid slowly emerged from its curled leaf cocoon and […]