Marigolds and seed saving
It was a glorious Autumn day on Saturday, perfect for pottering in the garden, harvesting the last few of the vegetables, and pulling up the summer vegetable garden. While pulling out the ...
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Mini succulent gardens
Many years ago I had a wonderful succulent collection potted up in sweet little pots, and dressed in coloured stones. Years later most of those succulents are still surviving in a rather ...
The Front Yard
I used to be quite diligent when it came to blogging about my garden, but somewhere along the way I became less and less so. I guess that happened once I was blogging less and less, so let’s ...
Instagram Snippets
I installed a wordpress plugin that pulls photos from my IG that are tagged #theredwren and turns them into a draft post in my blog.. Testing to see if it works.
Summer Fruit and Vegetables
It’s been a hot summer in Melbourne, an odd summer really. There hasn’t been much middle ground. It’s either really hot, or back into the mid-20’s. Until this week there’d been very little rain. ...
Project Life – Week 43
Gee, where are these weeks going? I keep falling behind with posting layouts, and freebies (Christmas ones are on their way, I promise!). Week 43…I decided to experiment with white space ...
Gardening, Life and Outings, Memory Keeping
Project Life – Week 39
(otherwise known as the week of too many photos). We had a lot on this week. We had play dates with friends, adventures at the Rhododendron Gardens, and Tulip Festival, rides on miniature ...
Green manure- digging it in!
There's not a lot to say about the digging in of the green manure, other than it smelt lovely and fresh, and was harder work than it looked. It now needs a few weeks to break down in the ...
Weekend sun
This past weekend we were fortunate enough to have some beautiful, sunny weather. We spent some time in the garden edging beds, and replacing an azalea bed with salvias. The latter has been on ...