Potted colour and snow white quartz
Happy as a pig am I, filthy dirty and planting things. I went to the garden nursery today and lashed out on four new window box style pots to go on the ledge by our sundeck. And, must as I usually despise the “instant everything” approach of garden centres, I bought a brace of their “potted colour” collections of pansies, and some advanced basil seedlings to replace the ones that got taken out by the birds earlier in the season. Five bags of potting mix added to the load, and the car was full. The kids love the garden centre, and today, when it was impossibly hot, they had the bonus of men hosing them down as well. We also bought an ice cream from the man who seems to live in the ice cream truck by the front gate. (Choc tops were off. Apparently the heat makes the chocolate so runny that it won’t set properly on the cold ice cream.) When we got home I had the best time potting everything up and watering it, and now the sun deck, which was looking rather rubbishy (Lachlan’s toy volcano on the table, bottles of the kid’s paints and rather too many desiccated weeds among the herb pots) looks like something out of a home and garden magazine. I hardly know myself. No sooner had I come inside for a glass of rose wine, than we noticed the bloody miner birds trying to dig it all up! We had a bag of white quartz left over from some landscaping work a few weeks ago, so I scattered them round as mulch on top of the pots. Hopefully that will do the trick. I feel a bit guilty about those white quartz stones, though. No sooner had we bought them that we noticed they were imported from China. Goodness knows how much energy has been used in bringing those beautiful snow-white stones them from China to here, for well-off gardeners like us. And goodness knows who mined the quartz, and in what conditions. But despite all this, I loved looking at the new pots, and next time, I promise, I will grow my own colour from seed, and get some good Aussie stones for mulch!
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