Continuing from my previous post herewith photos of some plants and flowers as I walked around my garden…. … where I am now concentrating on indigenous plantings. The ground here dries up very quickly as it’s on a slope and I have waged war over many years planting prettiness with minimal success. Prettiness requires …
It was a lazy Sunday today. I spent most of yesterday in the garden after a spot of rain the previous evening making the ground soft and easy for pulling out spent annuals, gathering seeds for next summer, cutting back overgrown plants, weeding and generally enjoying the cooler weather whilst I pottered (if that’s such a word!) Today, after a late-ish …
More flowers from my autumn garden. Fortunately I did a spot of gardening yesterday as I don’t feel like doing any today. There is a chilly wind and even though the sky is clear and sun is shining it isn’t all that pleasant outside. This is a reading-a-good-book day with some knitting in between or at the same …
Oh my goodness, I am slacking with my blog posts. It’s amazing what a difference one little person added to our family makes !! Tuesdays are Emma days. Hubby and I fetch our little cutie pie around 9.30 am and so the day begins without a stop! All other days, including weekends seem to be busy. …
No need to rush off to any form of gym class .. or fetching grandchildren, big or small .. on this Good Friday, first day of a long weekend. I sat on the patio with my morning tea taking in the soft morning light on my flourishing garden. After good rains, albeit late in the season, …
Nice name, I thought, with elegans as the second word of the scientific name :). Also known as ‘ youth-and-age ‘ .. I like the ‘ youth ‘ part. It’s a common flowering annual. It always flowered in gardens of my mum’s friends, as well as ours. As a children we would accompany my mum to her tennis mornings …
Glorious rain on Friday afternoon, 20mm to be exact, left the garden damp and easy to work yesterday. It was rather hot in the latter part of the morning but I kept to the shady spots to plant plugs of lawn. I have various lawns now in the garden .. the strongest and fittest will …
This is ‘Slinky Malinki’ .. one of our neighbours’ gorgeous jet black cat with green eyes, who, for the past couple of months has been visiting our garden on a regular basis He hops through the gate and strolls around the garden .. always clockwise. At first he was skittish, being aware that he was …