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Raison D’être

July 9, 2018by Robyn Haynes 49 Comments

Imagine going to buy eggs and discovering tiny volcanoes erupting all over usually groomed, green expanses. The Saturday morning farmers’ market is held in the manicured grounds of the local […]

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Ants, Web of Life

Eggactly!

April 29, 2017by Robyn Haynes 17 Comments

Why would you throw away your eggshells when they’re so useful?     There are a myriad of ways to recycle them. My favourite is for soil improvement. Years ago, […]

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2017, Autumn, Recycle and Reuse, Web of Life

Weaving Magic

January 6, 2017by Robyn Haynes 42 Comments

I’ve decided to think differently about spiders.   It’s not a new year’s resolution exactly, because I think making those is setting one’s self up for failure. I’ve just decided […]

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2017, Uncategorized, Web of Life

Not So Grand Scale

October 8, 2016by Robyn Haynes 30 Comments

What gardener hasn’t despaired over an infestation of scale or mealy bugs at some point in their gardening life? Take my hoya as an example. The vine had wound itself around the […]

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Web of Life

The Social Garden

September 10, 2016by Robyn Haynes 26 Comments

  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 […]

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Society, Web of Life

To Bee Or Not To Bee?

September 3, 2016by Robyn Haynes 41 Comments

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 […]

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Web of Life

Dust to Dust

August 27, 2016by Robyn Haynes 22 Comments

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 […]

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Outback, Web of Life

Light the Way

July 23, 2016by Robyn Haynes 28 Comments

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 […]

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Other-People's-Gardens, Web of Life

Loved, Lost and Found Again

July 9, 2016by Robyn Haynes 23 Comments

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 […]

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Web of Life, Winter

Grace

May 21, 2016by Robyn Haynes 40 Comments

Some spaces like a garden, evoke grace. But exactly what is ‘grace’? I browsed the dictionary trying to find a definition that properly defined what I meant by a garden having […]

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Autumn, Beauty, Web of Life

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Robyn enthusiastically pursues a green and writerly life on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, where her background as a doctor of social anthropology equips her with an interesting slant on the human condition. She spends much time indulging a passion for her garden where she ponders life and attempts to stave off existential angst. In her more reflective moments she makes wry observations on courtyard gardening and its parallels with life.

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