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• Making Beautiful Music Together

  

  Long ago, when I started out gardening and imagined my spring flower shows to be like beautiful musical symphonies, I discovered that the hardest thing to do... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• Our Front Garden Has a Mind of Its Own

  

  Well here we are, almost one year after our great Front Garden Makeover of 2023, and my brilliant plans have not quite worked out how I planned, but I'm... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• Asleep at the Wheel

  

  Spring has a way of waking you up like no other season. It brings you outside, don't forget the camera, "oh look over there that one is flowering too". You... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• Front Garden Makeover Update

  

  There's a lot to be said for rainy mornings. For one thing it means the gardener gets the morning off from hose-pointing duties, as Huey the rain god turns on... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Front Garden Makeover Time!

  

  Let's see ... my last posting here at Garden Amateur was News Year's Day this year. So it's way overdue that I keep the old garden blog rolling along, and... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Happy New Year!

  

  Happy New Year everyone, wishing all gardeners, readers and online passers-by the very best for 2023. May it be a much, much better year than the one just... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Looking Good

  

  While my enthusiasm for garden blogging might be on the wane, the opposite is true for gardening itself. I've never enjoyed it more. Perhaps the blogging has... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• Small Change, Big Difference

  

  These YouTube videos are making a lazy blogger of me!Yesterday, for reasons unrelated to gardening (ie, I was changing where I parked my motorcycle in the... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• The Bare and the Beautiful

  

  There is no time of day to compare to the mornings in our garden. As you stand at the back door and look out, the low morning sun appears in the far right corne... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• Saturday Cook up

  

  Way back in the good old days when the word "lockdown" was mostly used when reporting on the aftermath of prison riots, I loved the tradition of a big Saturday... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• What Seeds Have Taught Me About Patience

  

  One very strange thing I haven't been doing lately is visiting gardening centres. Prior to all this covid disruption, you'd probably find me browsing through a... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• A Resounding Shambles – Sorry About the Video Links ...

  

  Hi everyoneApologies!Just a short (for me) and apologetic posting to everyone who subscribes to my blog via email. Apparently lots of you have been getting the... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• Smashing Success: Repotting My Curry Leaf Tree

  

  I didn't think I'd be doing a detailed "how to" involving a hammer and a sharp knife when I woke up this morning, but here we are anyway (and it was a smashing... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• Five Garden Jobs You Can Do This Spring

  

  How's that gardening motivation level going? Out of 10? Locked down by covid and nothing to do, lovely garden out there and you're still a motivational "1" out... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• Gladiator V Onion Weed

  

  Pictured below is nothing less than a disgrace. A weedy disgrace, a total temporary victory by the evil onion weed.And so last week I decided I had to do... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• Shade-loving Flowers on Song

  

  A rare event is happening out there in our garden this week. All the shade-loving flowering plants are singing from the same song sheet: they're all flowering a... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• It's Citrus Feeding Time, Folks!

  

  Don't you just love it when a plan works? I do. Last week, looking at the weather forecast, I spotted the magic word "rain" predicted for Tuesday August 24.... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• Pam's Plants

  

  For those of you new to this blog, a little bit of recent history to start with. Late last year I stupidly broke my foot and in the process damaged a bunch of... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• Sydney's First Pops of Spring

  

  One of the great things about gardening in Sydney is that winter is still a time for growing things, planting and enjoying a few pretty blooms that like to... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• Greetings from Locked Down Sydney!

  

  It's been a long time (April 21) since I posted anything here in my gardening blog, which is semi-retired, just like me.But as I finished this morning's final... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2021 GARDENING, HOME