We have had a week of warm temperatures, with most maximums being 30 degrees or over. Disappointingly, there have been strong hot westerly winds as well which have caused damage to some of the perennials, those that have softer stalks. No matter, they will soon recover. Yesterday, after an unpleasant day of wind and heat,…
Category: In My Garden
A Tale of Six Roses: SoS October 27
This morning I stepped out over the dew dampened grass luxuriating in the early sun and relishing the peace of the neighbourhood before the lawn-mowing leaf-blowing brigade began their Saturday labours, before the dogs began to bark and the next door pool began its irritating whine. A garden is enchanting at that early hour of…
Leptospermums dazzle in Spring
We are experiencing a sublime Spring in the NSW Central Tablelands this year. There have been some excitingly plentiful rainfalls: gardens are luxuriant with blossom, lawns are green, and trees are putting on rapid growth. Roses, which grow exceedingly well in this area, are producing exuberantly: voluminous beauties floating over garden walls, arresting the walker…
Saturday Splendours, SoS Oct 13.
Spring is galloping ahead here in Mudgee. We’ve had some rain and the garden is flowering in quite an unrestrained fashion. Many trees have finished their Spring blossoming and are now decked out in leaves of soft tender green. I’ve been away for almost a week and have returned to find that new blooms are…
Bagworm
Whatever is a bag worm, do I hear you enquire? Indeed, I didn’t know myself (despite having often seen them ) until quite recently when I discovered one of these interesting creatures dragging its home laboriously behind itself across our gravelly path. Fascinated, I watched its action as it ventured, half out of its cocoon, …
Bounteous: SoS September 29
It was like snow in my garden this morning! White Pyrus petals were drifting, tossed here and there by the breeze, flurried across the garden and coming to rest, eventually, on the lawn. Almost overnight, it seems, Spring has really arrived, and I am in an unusual quandary: that of having many plants to choose for this…
Noble Narcissi: SoS, September 16
For weeks I wondered where all the snails disappeared to. During Winter, with the small amounts of rain we had, I sometimes went out into the garden to find snails, and to my surprise, they mostly eluded me despite searches under and around their favourite hiding places. However, one night last week, with warmer temperatures…
Furled
I apprecite tulips. I enjoy seeing colourful massed displays, but I’m not overly enamoured of them in my garden, partly because they need to be lifted each year and replanted in Autumn or early Winter. I admit I purchased my Tulipa kaufmanniana ‘Heart’s Delight’ from Lambley Nursery because the accompanying information stated that they can…
SoS: September 1: Still frosty.
Today is considered to be the first day of Spring in Australia, although technically speaking, real Spring doesn’t begin until the equinox on 23rd September. It seems, however, that Winter hasn’t quite finished with us yet here, in the Central Tablelands of NSW. We’ve had some rain, a good amount for us, and a cold…
SoS: August 18
It has been quite an miserable day here in the Central Tablelands of NSW. There was a -3 degree frost to start with. I have to admit that it was very pleasant early this morning sitting in the sun at the Growers’ market sipping excellent coffee, eating a bacon and egg roll and chatting with…