When making breakfast this morning I found at the back of the fridge a jar of homemade plum jam. A real treat as I thought we had finished them all. We live on a section that has become a rarity in suburban Auckland. 900 square metres containing a single dwelling and a large garden. Previous […]
Today I am housebound with the littlies due to our first lot of real winter weather. The sky is solid grey and the wind is up. While I sat at the dining room table having lunch I gazed out of the window into the back garden, mesmerised by the trees as they danced and swayed […]
When I started this blog I had hoped to gain a couple of readers somewhere out there in cyberspace but without a ‘view counter’ or any posted comments I thought that no one was interested in my gardening tales. Then our lives took a stressful turn and my blogging fell by the wayside. Hubby’s work […]
Yesterday we had a drizzly morning that developed into a gorgeous, sunny but cool afternoon so off into the front garden I went. The assistant gardener was at crèche and the little lad was having his afternoon nap so with the baby monitor nestled in the flower bed I started to prune my roses. A […]
The veggie patch and front garden both need weeding but the weather let me down this weekend. It would have been perfect with hubby home to watch bubs and the assistant gardener could have stayed with him or come out and played in the garden with me. But no, we had just enough drizzle of […]
About six weeks ago we started to get the odd sunny day that heralded the arrival of spring and my inclination to start getting out and sorting the garden began. Now my son still has a morning and afternoon nap giving me two opportunities to garden and my daughter is now old enough (two ½ […]
After spending the last three years either being pregnant or caring for newborns my garden has gone to rack and ruin. My garden, I see it as three gardens on the one section. The Front Garden consisting of the driveway with two large raised flowerbeds and small patch of lawn. The Vege Patch including a […]