Marguerite's Blog archive
Marguerite's gardening blogs from August 2008
My gardens ( 4 ctnd )
Posted on 28 Aug, 2008 1 comment
The nursery down the road was a great inspiration. The people there were most helpful in identifying my plants in the garden. If I didn't bring...
My gardens ( 4 )
Posted on 27 Aug, 2008 6 comments
There comes a time in everyone's life when one is slowing down; some call it retiring. Well, at one stage we did semi retire. We sold the orchard...
My gardens ( 3 )
Posted on 26 Aug, 2008 18 comments
After living for 16 years in the old house we decided to build a new house on the farm. We picked a good location on another slope, had a bulldozer...
My gardens ( 2 )
Posted on 23 Aug, 2008 9 comments
When we first had a look at what later on became our farm, I had a fright when I saw the house and the gardens. But the farm was fabulous. Some...
My gardens ( 1 )
Posted on 22 Aug, 2008 5 comments
As a child I grew up in a tropical garden and I was mentioning somewhere tonight that I can still remember the smells. It was not really my garden,...
Where are the flags???
Posted on 21 Aug, 2008 42 comments
This is not a blog about gardening. I am just asking Peter what happened to our flags? Have I missed something? I just loved seeing the flag...
Mushrooms.
Posted on 14 Aug, 2008 4 comments
Mushrooms not only look great, they taste it too. I don't know if anyone is growing them and I wouldn't know how to grow them myself, but I did...
The log cabin.
Posted on 10 Aug, 2008 6 comments
The log cabin.
When we began farming we had some paddocks for cattle. We lived in the hills, of which some were quite steep. Most paddocks and...
Cyclone.
Posted on 8 Aug, 2008 5 comments
The weather has everything to do with gardening. We depend on the weather whether we can work in it or if the plants can thrive, or die. And...
An outing.
Posted on 7 Aug, 2008 4 comments
Yesterday we went out for the day. We went bush! We have some friends staying, who are travelling around Oz in their caravan, which is parked...
Rain.
Posted on 4 Aug, 2008 4 comments
This one I wrote in Darwin.
Oh, how boring,it's raining' it's pouring.I can't go to the flower bedbecause I will get sopping wet.It's dark, the...
Canada thistle.
Posted on 3 Aug, 2008 7 comments
Canada thistles.
The last weed in my weed collection is the Canada thistle. These come up in Spring when after the winter rains everything comes...
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