It was the Blue Banded Bee that got me on my current journey. My husband and I had only been in our new house in 2009 for a month or two when I noticed a solitary bee hanging around the Salvia outside our back door. It had an unusual hum and try as I might, I couldn't get a closer look to see what it was. I spent 3 weeks trying to get photos of it … [Read more...] about Getting More Joy from Your Garden: Blue Banded Bee
Getting more Joy from your Garden through Photography
This lady is my Grandmother and I would say she's the one responsible for my love of gardens, flowers, art, poetry, writing stories, music and so on. I loved spending school holidays with her, building things with Lego, learning pieces of music on her piano, or watching her and listening to her play her piano, mandolin, banjo and mouth organ. She … [Read more...] about Getting more Joy from your Garden through Photography
Our Bulb Walk Wakes Up
I despaired of all the weeds in the bulb walk but there are always so many things here to do and it's hard to keep up with it all. We haven't, as yet, determined what else to plant in our bulb walk, or what to do with it, to keep it relatively weed free, however, at the moment the flowering bulbs are making themselves known, through their … [Read more...] about Our Bulb Walk Wakes Up
Planting Strelitzia
Our neighbour, Mark, very kindly gave us some Strelitzia Reginae that he'd dug up. I wasn't sure exactly where I'd put them but was very grateful for the offer, and he put them over the fence for me yesterday. After reading up on them, we decided beside our Billabong would be the perfect location. And, as we have forthcoming rain later today it … [Read more...] about Planting Strelitzia
Some colour in our winter garden
Just some of the colour we have in our winter garden right now. Top row: Daffodil, Abutilon, Hellebore Middle row: Hellebore, Camelia Bottom row: Camelia, Salvia, Camelia … [Read more...] about Some colour in our winter garden