25 September 2017

Bloomin' Lovely - Winter

I know its been a long time between posts, but seeing that this is a blog mostly about vegetable gardening and there hasn't been anything being produced in the vegetable garden there really hasn't been anything to write about.

Now that spring has arrived the plants in the vegetable garden are slowly starting to produce, but nothing of significance, so today I thought I would share some of the flowers that have been blooming in my garden over winter.

Jonquils, one of my favourite flowers, their fragrance always takes me back to my childhood and my mother's garden.

 Another one from my childhood, Snowdrops.

The calendulas have been blooming for months now and show no signs of stopping anytime soon.


Carnations make a lovely addition to any flower garden, this one  was grown from a cutting taken from a store bought bunch.

Looking like a mound of snow in the garden Alyssum are a favourite with the bees.

Marguerite daisy, the blackbirds have built a nest in this one and there was at last count three eggs in it.

White oxalis

And finally tiny pink flowers on one of my succulents, it is the first time it's flowered.

Hopefully I will be back in a few days with an update on the vegetable garden, I hope your gardens are bloomin' lovely too.

02 August 2013

A Quiet Week

It's been quiet this week. I'm feeling a little introspective, slightly overwhelmed with things and not wanting to do much of anything.  But I did want to share a few photos from the last week or so.
I had been helping my daughter feed the steers and heifers while uni was on semester break.
 It's been fun, and a break from our normal routine but it has also been very wet and extremely muddy.


Which made for some very dirty gumboots indeed. 


Sunset through the trees.

 So excited to discover my first ever cauliflower, grown from seed no less.

Purple sprouting broccoli which hopefully will start producing soon.

Something is eating my kai lan but I can't figure out what.


 Blackbirds high in the white cedar tree.
 It's nice to see that soursobs are good for something other than trying to take over my yard.

Field peas germinated from the pea straw I use as mulch for the veggie garden, so pretty.

 Gorgeous skies.

A daily visitor,

and beautiful snowdrops. I will be back tomorrow with some thrifty finds.