Heart's Desire

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...

Must be doing something right if this little beauty is blooming! Nodding Violet ( Streptocarpus caulescens ) from a nursery clearance table...

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 ...

This week's obsession: pinching bits of geraniums (or are they pelargoniums?!) from verges to propagate. 

Or cucamelons, or Mexican sour gherkins, or  Melothria scabra ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melothria_scabra): cute, tasty, perfect snack...