Raison D’être
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 […]
Category Archives: Web of Life
Eggactly!
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, […]
Weaving Magic
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 […]
Not So Grand Scale
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Grace
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 […]
