Six on Saturday: April 14

Saturday has rolled around again and it’s time for another six.  The Propagator is the excellent host of this meme and if you would like to see what everyone else is doing in their garden this weekend, do pay a visit to his site. We were  kept busy watering during the week. One of the…

Six on Saturday, April 7. Garden Visitors 3

I have called this week’s SoS ‘Garden Visitors Three’  because I’ve previously posted Garden Visitors and Garden Visitors Two, so the title of this post seems to be quite pertinent. We have recently had a number of really delightful guests in the garden. I wish they would become permanent residents, but perhaps because there isn’t…

Japanese Gardens in Red Earth Country.

Dubbo (red earth, in English) is a city of nearly 40 000 people 90 minutes’ drive from where I live. The red earth of Dubbo is very fertile and in good seasons the countryside around the city abounds in wheat rippling in the breeze and fields of canola adding a brilliant yellow to the landscape….