Spring is bearing down on us much earlier than it should be – it is almost 30 degrees today and it is mid August. I’m rushing around trying to do all the winter jobs I thought I still had time to do before it starts warming up – after a winter that didn’t really getContinue reading “Pruning, Orange Gluts & Spiders”
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August
It should be late winter, but it’s spring.
Paying The Rent
I watch many people walking past my house as I sit on my verandah. And every time I see a First Nations person passing my house I am acutely aware of the fact that I have benefited from the theft of their land. I live in a big old house that amply accommodates me andContinue reading “Paying The Rent”
Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes have been alternately the bane of my existence and a wonderful windfall. I bought a sweet potato plant and, paying no heed to the saleswoman in the nursery who said, ‘they take over everything’, I put it in the ground. Two years later I had a garden covered in sweet potato, coming upContinue reading “Sweet Potatoes”
Paola’s Faerie Garden
I love seeing what other people have done in their gardens and one I admire in particular is that of a friend, Paola. Like me, she is a champion tip-shop forager; unlike me, she actually gives those trinkets a new life decorating her beautiful garden, instead of letting them pile up in a back roomContinue reading “Paola’s Faerie Garden”
