There is still a whisp of husk holding back our coffee seedling, but it is beginning, at long last, to look as though it may become a fully fledged plant. I know this is a blurry photo (never was my strength) but you can see how the shell of the coffee bean is still there, […]
A very depressing report in today’s newspapers about a new report on global warming predicting all sorts of terrible things. It makes me feel so helpless, and also as though I should be doing more…
We already:
Save water in every way we can, watering the garden entirely from grey washing machine water and other drips
Are signed […]
At long last I have gotten round to taking some pictures of my pride and joy - the window-box style flower pots I planted up with pansies and other bits and pieces about a month ago. They sit on a narrow wall alongside our pocket handkerchief of a sundeck, and they cheer me up every […]
I was just looking through some old photos, and came across this one - a picture of Vita Sackville West’s wonderful garden at Sissinghurst. These photos were taken on a trip I took with my family in 2002. A perfect day.
This is a photo taken from the tower, in which Sackville-West used to write her […]
I must remember to take a photo of this in daylight hours, but my pots on the back verandah are looking really spectacular, with the poppies in full bloom. I am particularly proud of this because we have been keeping the whole lot alive with just grey water from washing vegetables and general kitchen use […]
I haven’t worn pantyhose since I was in my 20s. There was a feeling of great liberation when I turned 30 and decided that I no longer needed to make myself uncomfortable for the sake of appearances. I have never regretted my decision, except…
when the tomatoes are sprawling everywhere because I have nothing stretchy with […]
Couldn’t help but notice this wonderful sounding job as a “seed manager”. I’m trying to finish a book at the moment, and admittedly even tidying my sock drawer seems more attractive - nevertheless I am really tempted. Hmmm
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How’s this for a man who understood gardening? This is from “Leaves of Grass” the wonderful epic poem by the famous Walt Whitman. I love it.
This Compost
(from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman)
Something startles me where I thought I was safest;
I withdraw from the still woods I loved;
I will not go now on the pastures […]
I met Gertrude, the matriach of the community gardens, yesterday on my morning walk, and commented to her how hard it is to keep the vegetable patch alive on two waterings a week. She put her head on one side (her little dog, who always follows her, did likewise) fixed me with a stare and […]
Shameless promotion of family members here, but my Dad has written a book! It has almost nothing about gardening in it…but hey, there are other things in life (I suppose).
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