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• For the Record

  

  It being a record-setting day, and this blog being a weather-loving gardener's journal of record, and it being the official, history-of-the-universe hottest... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 GARDENING

• Good Cheer

  

  Of all the silly things a usually sensible person could do, I updated our accounts on Saturday, and delving into inconvenient financial facts always has a... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Sizzling!

  

  Sydney seems to get one or two of these outrageously hot days every summer. It all depends on the wind direction. When the winds come from the north-west,... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Hopping into 2013

  

  It being my first post of 2013, here's wishing all my wonderful little handful of Garden Amateur blog readers the happiest of New Years. And so, true to form,... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Green Thoughts in a Green Shade

  

  Well, I can't say it was a shock, as the rumours were doing the rounds, but the way the news of the closure of our great old magazine arrived was a surprise. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Merry Christmas Everyone!

  

  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. I hope 2013 is a great year for you.Last year I did a Christmas-themed diorama, and so this isthe second year i... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 MOTO

• Guest Spot

  

  One very mild irritation of being a gardening blogger is the number of companies emailing me asking to allow them to do a 'guest posting' here at Garden Amateur. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Good Bones

  

  While watching my renovated garden grow and gradually take shape – it probably won't be fully 'grown' until later summer, I suspect – it occurred to me that wha... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Loving Their New Home

  

  Steady growth is a deceptive thing. It wasn't until I compared my September and December photos of the revamped succulent garden that I realised how much... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Lighting up Christmas

  

  I suppose all of you have a story like this one to tell, so you could consider this to be just a local posting for inner-westies of Sydney. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• It is a Far Far Better Thing...

  

  There I was this morning, deadheading the daisies, and all of a sudden I was thinking of my first romantic hero when I was a book-mad teenage boy: Sidney... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Dripping Wet

  

  Lovely sound, gentle rain on a tin roof. And the changes a bit of morning rain brings to the garden are so tempting. No matter how much it rains, I just have... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• The Honeymoon is Over

  

  It has been quite a lovely spring, but the honeymoon is over, and there are many ways every gardener in Sydney knows that. For starters, there was yesterday... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Hot Lap at the Nurburgring

  

  For a while, a few years ago now, I was a Gran Turismo devotee on Playstation, and of all the wonderful tracks that GT3 and GT4 had to offer, the Nordschleife a... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 MOTO

• Love Me Tendril

  

  Almost everyone is a sucker for baby animal photos – lion and tiger cubs are the cutest little tackers, and I've even got a soft spot for baby hippos and rhinos. Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Frozen Delights

  

  Woo hoo! I've made it into the Arctic Circle with the little red dots of readership of my Garden Amateur blog. See below for what I'm rabbiting on about this... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2012 ENVIRONMENT, OUTDOORS, WEATHER

• Red & Green

  

  Such a pleasing colour combination, red and green. It's not just the looming festive season which makes me like red and green so much, it's a 24/7/365 thing. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• My Freebie Salad Bowl

  

  Oh goody, free seeds attached to the cover of the magazine! In this case it was the mag I work for, but free seeds are free seeds and every time I get some... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Katy Did Camouflage Well

  

  It's got to the point that every time I head out into the garden to do even the most mundane tasks, such as this morning's hedge-trimming, I keep my little... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Weedling Or Seedling?

  

  All I have to show for a few hours of effort in the garden today is a thoroughly soiled pair of gardening jeans, especially around the knees. Weeding, the... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2012 GARDENING, HOME