Heart's Desire

I have been trying to photograph the Firetails that hang out just outside the kitchen window. Firetails are small, very fidgety birds, and ...

This morning, at 9am, it was already as dark as dusk. The wind had whipped and wailed around the garden all night, and it was very wet and s...

I love Japanese windflowers. There is a large patch of white ones right outside the kitchen window. They are the most lovely flowers, swayi...

Today SP and I went by our house and checked out our new and dramatic earthworks. Now you can see why the right hand side of my front yard m...

The self-confessed plant-nerd in me sometimes thinks I should crack out the tape measure when I plant something new, make notes, and then co...

OK, that's a bit silly! That is a pot of Lomandra , variety Chewton Grey. I bought two big pots of it with hopes of dividing it up to m...

There is a proper gardening post to come, but while I was on a certain satellite photo website, looking for a good picture to get a scale dr...

Autumn is nearly over, and as it gets colder I slow down, and so does my little blog. It's been almost a week since I last wrote, but I ...

A while ago we noticed that our wee SP is fascinated by animals (but if you ask her, dogs, cats, birds, kangaroos all say ' oof oof oo...