A timely reminder that it’s not just snakes that can get over a 6 foot fence 🙂 ​ Something tells me the neighbour’s chickens are in for an interesting afternoon. ​
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a little goanna in the garden
30 Saturday Sep 2017
Tag Archives: garden
just me, the birds and my roses
12 Saturday Oct 2013
Nice and quiet here today. I love this suburb. Lots of people out walking but all for the same reason – enjoying a peaceful morning. It’s overcast and grey and there is a bit of drizzle around… the garden is giggling.
I’m old school when it comes to roses. If it doesn’t smell like a rose, I don’t see the point. Mr Lincoln, Freesia, Gold Bunny, Honey Dijon, Double Delight are some of my roses that all have a strong fragrance.
I break my own rule when it comes to my favourite rose. It’s called Julia’s Rose. It buds up a deep brown colour and when it opens it fades to the colour of parchment. My parents had it growing in the garden I grew up with and although it doesn’t have a scent, I love it because of its unusual colour. Parchment. What a delicious word to describe a flower. This is my favourite rose.
poppies
31 Saturday Aug 2013
experimental Sunday
11 Sunday Aug 2013
I’ve spent my day doing “what if’s…..”
What if I followed this old wives tale and used a pair of tongs with half a kitchen sponge rubber-banded to each side and dipped it in strong tea solution to clean my blinds? (A: it worked)
What if I just planted some bat plant seeds without researching if that’s how you propagate bat plants to see I they will pop up?
What if I planted a seed in each leftover Nespresso coffee pod to see if they’ll germinate?
What if?
Something that makes me happy
11 Thursday Oct 2012
It never fails to make me feel better to smell a freshly mown lawn. My mower went under in the floods so I’ve splurged on a mower man who comes once a month. On a weekday morning, I hear the whippersnipper fire up when I’m in the shower. The mowers are going when I’m blow drying my hair. And by the time I am dressed and walk out to the kitchen – I look out on my lovely, looked after backyard. Somehow it looks more ‘clean’.
A little pot plant gardening
23 Sunday Sep 2012
My front door went from zero to hero with my pot plant revamp today. I had two very heavy black pots with ugly little plants left behind when I moved in. I knew they’d filled them up with dirt but I didn’t realise it’d petrified into stone 🙂 The other owners did mix their soil with beanbag foam though! Yikes.
Now it’s dug out and with some lively Aussie natives. I can add a few each month now and build a sweet and colourful entrance. Yay!
There’s a little Steve Irwin in all of us..
08 Saturday Sep 2012
I had a lovely little wildlife encounter today when I went outside to water the plants this afternoon. An adolescent magpie hunting around the backyard came running up to me with a couple of grasshoppers in his beak. He came right up close enough to pat. I think the previous owners must have fed him some mince… Very nice having him follow me round the yard though. I might have to restart the tradition.
rain rain go away
03 Sunday Jun 2012
stabby plants
24 Thursday May 2012
I get that the bird of paradise is a hardy plant, drought resistant and tropical as, but I can’t like it. I’ve tried but each time I see one I itch. The flowers aren’t beautiful, they could poke your eye out. There’s no scent. The leaves look dusty and get scrappy as quick as you look at them. Seriously, I will pull them out of any garden I am in control of.
firesprite
05 Saturday May 2012
i love lawn
22 Sunday Apr 2012
more time in the garden
25 Saturday Feb 2012
bat babies
12 Sunday Feb 2012
quiet time
22 Sunday Jan 2012
laurenetrim 