Heart's Desire

A great week for packages! I got my apples and pears already: And my roses finally arrived, minus the Abraham Darby, which was a bit of a bu...

After three or four years in the front garden, my St. Cecelia (David Austin) rose has done little better than limp along. Today she got the ...

I did it. I held my breath, closed my eyes, and clicked 'order' on six new fruit trees: three apples, and three pears. It's a bi...

Anyone would think I was some kind of gardener...

 I haven't bothered with growing potatoes for a couple of years now, because fun as it is, it's also quite a lot of effort and space...

I am not an early-riser (at least not by choice), but at 9:30am our yard was still covered by this fine bloom of ice. So beautiful.  Geums S...

There is something very special about winter in Adelaide. The garden is quiet and damp, and completely lovely in a scruffy kind of way.  ...

Those chickens: fiends for anything green!  This was June the first... Little sods! But the French Sorrel is returning, ready to feed the ch...

Two bales of peastraw mulch, and a makeshift curved bench made out of spare recycled red brick (not fixed in place in any way, which is good...

Presenting my new garden space! We have moved the chickens behind the shed and removed their old coop.  Doesn't look like much now, but ...

It's like Christmas! Fourteen new beauties here, the only one missing from my original order is 'Mme Berade' as it was out of st...

Hollyhocks in winter suffer more than their fair share of woes.

I've accidentally deleted the last post, a case of slipped finger on an iPad screen, and no second chances. Never mind, it wasn't ...

This is our backyard. Midwinter, retaining walls still under construction with their black plastic and piles of rubble and soil, and our pat...

Mulching, mulching, mulching; blah! Never buying a jumbo sized bale of pea-straw again, not unless I have a small army to help me shift it, ...

Perhaps I need to rename my blog to 'Gardener on a Budget,' or 'The Bargain Hunter,' or maybe just 'The Cheapskate.'...