Winter Blues …
… purples, pinks, whites and especially greens. In fact, most any colour you can think of. While those of you in cooler climes enjoy the brilliant colouring of leaves […]
Category Archives: Winter
‘Tis the Season …
… for family. I’m travelling to northern Queensland to see mine for an early Christmas, so will not post this weekend. See you next week!
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 […]
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 […]
The Way You Hold Your Tongue
Some plants just seem to grow well despite what you do or don’t do to them. The zygocactus or schlumbergera is one such hardy plant. Everybody seems to have magnificent […]
Erode
The stones that were part of my entry path have migrated. Recent downpours swept them up in watery torrents and washed them away to colonise adjacent garden beds, exposing an underbelly of pipes and […]
Tenuous
I am drowning in green waste! The large bag I keep for that purpose is overflowing. If the worms in my worm farm had arms they’d be throwing them up […]
Sowing Seeds
I’m house-sitting at present in the northernmost part of coastal New South Wales at beautiful Kingscliff. After last weekend’s wild weather, I did a reconnaissance of the courtyard garden I’m […]
Wild Wonderful Weather
Today is for nesting, for staying snug.The whole eastern seaboard of Australia is in the thrall of a ‘weather event’. When I was a child, extreme weather arrived with little forewarning beyond […]
Turn! Turn! Turn!
‘… to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to […]
