Look Closer

When I first saw this I thought it was the remains of a broken off tree branch, not so.  It was in fact a Tawny Frogmouth.  I got up quite close and took lots of photos, and all the time it stayed perfectly still. 

End of Aggie Season

Now starts the process of dead heading all of my agapanthus plants.  I will have to undertake it over a few sessions as there are so many.  Must make a mental note not to plant any more.

My Baby's 21st Birthday

Happy Birthday babe, we are so proud of you and your achievements.  We wish for you the best life has to offer.

Garden Mosaic

I am trying my best to be more creative with my photos - inspiration from Annie's Flower Garden blog.

I'm Back After More Than A Year

No I didn't go anywhere, I was just really slack.  I have now been inspired to get things up and going again.  This inspiration has come from stumbling upon http://annie-flowergarden.blogspot.com/ and being really impressed by the artistic composition of the blog as well as admiring the creative talent and energy that Annie has. Sometime I will work out how to send a comment to Annie's blog to let her know.  But for now I will just upload a few photos onto my blog.

SHAPING UP THE TRIANGLE GARDEN

A garden bed that has been in existence for some time has been given a more refined look by adding an edging of terracotta tiles.  The tiles were originally on the roof of the Lych Gate erected in 1919 to house an honour roll for those who had served in World War 1 at the  Orley Avenue Congregational Church in Stirling.  The Church was sold, but the Lych Gate relocated to the purpose built Uniting Church at Sunset Rock.  They chose not to re-install the Australian Made (Eureka Pottery) terracotta tiles, so we were given the opportunity to purchase them.  In the centre of the garden is a weeping standard Seafoam Rose which Rod gave me for my birthday in 1993.  On each point a Rosa "The Fairy" is planted.  I started with 2 of these roses in 1989 which were planted in another garden.  I propagated several new plants when I transplanted the original bushes to the triangle garden.  The new plants were also planted around the edges of the triangle but only one new plant has survived neglect.  I am a little worried that because it is not a grafted rose it too may not perform, but time will tell.  In conjunction with the edging I have planted French lavender between The Fairy roses and an inner border of Purple Cloud agapanthus which I moved from a position where they have never flowered in the 9 years that I have had them.  There is still some concreting of the tiles to be done before the job is finished but overall the result is pleasing.

VEGGIE GARDEN

It is many years since we have had the pleasure of growing our own veggies.  Whilst our plan is to build a new garden in the full sun, a blitz on the bottom tier of our original garden (a bit shaded) has been sufficient to get us going for this season.  I added home made compost after weeding and digging the bed over.  We have beetroot, chives, parsley, yellow zucchini, capsicums, snow peas, yellow butter beans, spinach, cos lettuce, strawberries, basil and 3 different tomatoes.  To date we have harvested the lettuce, spinach, beans and chives.