Continue reading “New Urban Edible Garden – review”It’s the ‘feel’ of my established garden that I dream about. I want her to nourish bodies with food; soothe souls with pretty and fill minds with wonder.
New Urban Edible Garden – review
Street Photography – Plant Portraits
Continue reading “Street Photography – Plant Portraits”People are the focus of most of my photography – either candid portraits or on the street.
But my walks have been solitary so I’ve had to stalk a different kind of subject.
Garden Plans – Up Date
Continue reading “Garden Plans – Up Date”The site sketch for the garden is on the left. Tame, easy care … boring. My ideas and scribbles are on the right – no instant lawn and easy care planting for me.
Seeds of Change
Continue reading “Seeds of Change”This virus has turned the world upside down.
I’m hoping, in time, we’ll be able to blame it for some really positive sustainable and environmental changes.
Foraging for Compost
Continue reading “Foraging for Compost”Growing a garden requires planning for a future by responding to the conditions of the present.
Gardening as Art
Continue reading “Gardening as Art”Viewing rice terraces in the northern mountains of Vietnam is like being in an enormous outdoor exhibition space.
Fiddlesticks and Fiddleheads
Continue reading “Fiddlesticks and Fiddleheads”I imagine holding a fiddlehead in my hand – it’s light and fragile but weighty with comfort. At the moment we’ve been called to return to our homes, to seek safety within the fold but, in time, we will emerge into a new
beginningnormal.
The Lonely Fly
Continue reading “The Lonely Fly”Then the silence would be broken …
And the gymnastics and shouting begin
Garden Progress
Continue reading “Garden Progress”When I’m feeling that it’s all too hard and the garden still looks scrappy, I get my photos out to remember how far we’ve come.
Finding the Wood through the Trees
Continue reading “Finding the Wood through the Trees”I’ve inherited my love of gardening from very distant relatives. Assuming I am a ‘rational animal’ that is – because I have my doubts!
Gardening and Community
Continue reading “Gardening and Community”While busily sorting two areas of my garden today I apologised out loud to a beetle scurrying around my paintbrush. You see I had disturbed his entire composting community in order to access these fences for staining and he was at a loss for where to now call home.
