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LATEST ARTICLES ( 41 )

• At Royal Park

  

  Good to know, but Zara wasn't with me. Much of Royal Park's 180 hectares just north of the city centre look like this, a broad sweep of landscape largely native... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014

• Shaking the Ghosts

  

  Though autumn's a time of dying, here where summer's been torturous, it comes as an agent of revival.This being the Antipodes - where practice is sort of... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014

• and Three Little Kookaburras

  

  At last! The kookaburras have landed!I was gardening for friends yesterday. It was delightful. Their garden is what I'd call old-fashioned, crafted out of... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014

• Glimpses of Life

  

  Whatever changes are happening to the world's climates, the only certainty is their unpredictability.East Melbourne is a plush corner of the world, a stone's... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014

• Shyness

  

  Photographs taken of the land beside the property I live on, intended for public green space. It is the end of summer. Industrial equipment looks its best... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014

• Mea Culpa

  

  I apologise to all the gardeners confronted here by poetry. Just so you know, I'll be separating my writing from my gardening work in another, new blog. I've... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014

• Voluntary

  

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  Posted on 08 February 2014

• All Is Vanity?

  

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  Posted on 01 February 2014

• White-hot Hot

  

  It's getting ghostly, not because there's too much darkness, but because there's too much light... the dandelions have given up. Underneath the ghostly sheet, a... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014

• Europe Endless

  

  It was on going to lunch for my sister's birthday at The European in Spring Street that I did a quick wander in this, one of my favourite parts of Melbourne. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014

• Garden Architecture 1

  

  With a pressing need for an off-the-ground bird feeder but with marginal handyman skills, assembling lying-around bits and pieces into a coherent unity is, well... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014

• Crackers and the Dynamic Duo Being

  

  It's got so hard for me to keep my blog going. Do I really want to keep telling you what I do each week? Do you really care? Is something that happens any more... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013

• Frolicking

  

  As I write this post, I look out my window and see again that neighbours in the court opposite have let their two bunnies out to nibble the verge. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013

• It's the Little Things...

  

  My back door is really where everyone enters, so it's there I've stuck my bay-leaf Christmas wreath. A bit amateur, not much bling......but bling would fade... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013

• The Five ( Or Seven ) of Us

  

  I have a batch of old slides we all used to watch in a darkened dining room. And at last I'm getting them converted to photos. I'm on the horse, with my elder... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013

• Lost in Space

  

  My main point in writing this post is to suggest that the landscape can offer a more beautiful outlook than what most of us contrive in our gardens. Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2013

• Horseplay

  

  We thought we'd bolt down out the back, Zara and me, to see Neddy and Zippy. The cold and blasty weather is finally gone.The car hasn't been starting up... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013

• He Goes for It

  

  It concerns me that I don't altogether do as much with my blog as I'd like to. Sometimes it's circumstantial and sometimes it's motivational, the reason I let i... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013

• Nursery Intrigues...

  

  Here we all were, having a gardening sort of morning, with a nap here and a thorough investigation there......blessed we've been to have a pair of... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2013

• The Three of Us

  

  I've thought a tame Australian Magpie ( Gymnorhina tibicen ) would be lovely to have, having got to know many wild ones over the years. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013