Hello April, the month we start sliding into cooler weather. I think we’ll all be grateful once the high humidity passes and we can enjoy comfortable sleeping. The early mornings and evenings will be fresher and we can look forward to our gardens slowing down. Wait, what? Less work in the garden? I don’t think […]

I want to highlight one of my favourite perennials – Geranium ‘Rozanne’, common name Cranesbill. It’s a modern cultivar, specifically bred for hardiness, and is easy to grow. It is long blooming and has large blue-violet blooms, always an attraction for me. ‘Rozanne’ was in the Top Ten Plants of the Century at the Centennial […]

We had many more frosts this year than in recent times and they battered many of the plants in my garden. In fact, they killed several of them. I have a collection of plants I keep in pots so they are easier to protect than those in the ground and I move these pots under […]

We’re used to having magpies, parrots, cockatoos and galahs in our garden, as well as some smaller birds I don’t know. A pair of magpies regularly walk around, as if they are inspecting the space. They know us and we happily share our garden with them. In the last couple of weeks, we had a […]