This Autumn has been one of the most colourful I’ve seen here in the Central Tablelands of NSW. Russet, garnet, butterscotch and gold leaves bedeck trees in many gardens and lawns carry mantles of colour. I wonder if the prolonged dry spell is the reason for all this glory. The weather continues to be warm…
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Six on Saturday, May 19th
It’s astonishing how quickly Saturdays seem to roll around. I’ve no sooner read everyone’s Sixes than it’s time to prepare another one of my own. Six on Saturday is hosted by The Propagator. Participants are invited to show six things from their garden: flowers or vegetables, trees or shrubs, paths or gardens, successes or failures….
Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
It was a dull day in April when we visited the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, but our enthusiasm was not dampened by the louring clouds as we wandered around the 38 hectare site with its Autumn leaf-covered lawns, its lofty trees and waterways. The RBG was founded in 1846 and is an idyllic oasis…
Six on Saturday, May 12th
Autumn is finally well-esconced in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, and in fact even Winter made its looming presence felt yesterday with a blast of cold air bringing us a little rain, strong wind and snow to some places. The maximum temperature here was 11 degrees C and that was only for about…
Traversing the Flat Land
Our recent touring holiday, a journey of about 3 500 km, took us on a round trip to Melbourne and back, stopping at eight different towns and seeing a lot of Australian countryside in the process. From arid marginal land to rolling countryside of glorious green on the coast, we covered a lot of ground,…
Six on Saturday, May 5th
The last two weeks have seen us touring around Victoria, and SoS wasn’t possible during that time. I wondered how the garden would look after a fortnight, but all was in order upon our return. Our watering system did its work well, as did a friend who kindly watered pot plants. Six on Saturday is…
Lambley: late Autumn Garden.
I’ve been inspired by David Glenn’s Lambley Garden in Central Victoria ever since I became a serious (but uneducated in the science of horticulture) gardener about eighteen years ago. I’ve bought quite a few plants from there by mail order. So it was with much anticipation that I approached Lambley a couple of weeks ago, during…
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….