Marguerite's Blog archive

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...

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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...

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Tags: Garden Tropical

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...

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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...

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Tags: Garden australian

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,...

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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...

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Tags: flagging

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...

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Tags: mushrooms

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...

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Tags: Pine plantation

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...

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Tags: Tropical cyclone

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...

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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...

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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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Tags: australian weeds