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fascinating fungi flourishing
I've spotted a few different types of fungi growing in the garden. Yay! That shows biodiversity is increasing in the little ecosystem that is my garden. Their appearance has been helped by two things:...
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spreading sunshine
The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers who positively and creatively inspire others.Bernie (of My Dry Tropics Garden and Bush Bernie's Blog) nominated me for this prize ... thanks for the...
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July 2012 garden review
It's not that I don't learn from my mistakes. It's just that I keep making new ones. This latest one is the worst garden mistake I've ever made. What possessed me to order pine mulch?????????? And to...
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garden bloggers bloom day july 2012
Question: How many plants are currently flowering in my winter garden? cottagey flowers,euphorbia flowers,hellebore flowers and Australian native...
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an absolutely must - read book for children
How to Heal a Broken Wing is a really special book. A simple, moving story that illustrates complicated ideas like animal rights, compassion and freedom.The story goes like this:Among the busying,...
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a veritable ecological paradise
A recent weekend in Canberra became a nature fix for this nature junkie.45 minutes driving got us to Tidbindilla Sanctuary, a large wetlands area surrounded by bushland.A fence keeps out predators and...
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a taste of the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Australian National Botanic Gardens has an enormous collection of Australian indigenous plants, and it plays a leading role in research, education and conservation. Australian plants come from a wide...
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mid-august 2012 garden thoughts and pics
The garden is beginning to waken from its light winter nap. Growth barely stopped, especially weed growth, but now that spring is getting close growth is speeding up in breathless anticipation. We have...
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Banksias, real and imagined
The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, by May Gibbs, is an Australian children's book first published in 1918. The heroes, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, are cute little gum-nut babies who...
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feel free to 'steal' my content
There is a growing number of people who believe in open source blogging. They are un-coyrighting their work - granting full permission to whoever wants to use their material, to use in any way they...
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how trees are (de) valued
News item: A property developer has been convicted and fined $5000 for illegally cutting down 12 significant trees on the site of his planned $20 million mansion. He paid $24 million for the block of...
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September 2012 garden update
Wake up sleepy-twigs, spring is here.Borage self seeds throughout the garden. I let it do its thing. Since the recent Big Wet the plants are much larger than they used to be, with more flowers per...
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death and the garden: a book for children
The death of a loved pet is an opportunity to help a child to understand, or at least accept, the fact of death. The Tenth Good Thing About Barney, by Judith Viorst, tells a deceptively simple story...
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Lorrie's garden
Lorrie is getting on in years, and she hasn't been very well for quite a while. But still she manages to spend time in her garden taking cuttings, propagating and planting.There must be hundreds of...
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a post for my mother
Today is my mother's 100th birthday. My mother never understood my garden, thought it was weird, dirty and untidy. Couldn't understand why I kept pulling things out and moving things around. One day we...
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catmint spring garden update, october 2012
Spring is progressing nicely. The weather is starting to warm up. Yesterday the temperature briefly leaped to 28 degrees. You could tell many of the plants got a bit of a shock. The young 'uns had...
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Contemplative photography: a book review
The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes, by Andy Karr and Michael Wood. Shambhala Publications, 2011.This book has changed my life! Contemplative photography is a...
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6 posts I probably won't write
I've got ideas for these posts but they can't all be published. What to do? ... make a list!1. Children's playgrounds, natural and plastic. Some playgrounds use natural materials like trees, rocks,...
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scene from a window
I've consciously designed the garden as a series of garden pictures.Banksia RoseYet until now I've never thought to photograph the garden through its most obvious frame: the window.What you see from...
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end of spring garden november 2012
I've been practically drunk on looking at and photographing the spring garden. I don't remember the garden ever having been so lush and lovely. It's to do with the weather, all that rain, for sure. But...
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