Eternity

A touch of gold

crocus sativus

No, I haven’t won the lotto yet although I do feel like I have found gold! Being a good little gardener I promptly got my spring bulb order in earlier this year. The bulbs arrived and life got kinda busy   Read More »

The lazy gardener

hollyhock frilly

“A garden should be just a little too big to keep the whole cultivated, then it has a chance to go a little wild in spots, and make some pictures for you.” Edna Walling, Australian gardener 1895-1973 I wonder if   Read More »

Searching for my rose coloured glasses

nerine

My confidence is a bit shaken at the moment. The combination of a number of factors. At the fore, is my concern that I have let things go a bit on the farm front. Too many competing priorities mean that   Read More »

Cat 1 – Snake ?

abbey

Two posts in one day, must be something afoot. Sadly it is so. The gorgeous Abbey hasn’t been seen since yesterday morning. Being a true farm cat she is very independant, but not this independant. By mid-morning I was starting   Read More »

Daughter of the wind

anemone2

This my friends, is my all time autumn favourite.   The windflower, known variously as the Japanese anemone or Japanese windflower. When these generous plants start to flower I know that the seasons are well and truly changing and that   Read More »