The Red Wren

The crepe myrtle disappointed me a little last year by not flowering. This year it well and truly made up for it! It’s gorgeous!

Why have traditional flowers in the home when you can have….

Parsley and Leeks!!

We pulled out some leeks and parsley that had gone to seed. Seemed a shame to waste the pretty flowers.

Rather than just buying flowers for the house this year, I wanted something more.. festive:

I found some fabulous berries in the florist and teamed them with some branches from the garden and parsley flowers (of which we have an abundance). When the berries got old I replaced them with Christmas Bush, seen in the last photo.

Wow- I am so many posts behind after having such a frantic December. We planted seeds a few months ago and for nearly two months – nothing happened! After a good soak in the December rains, they appeared!

1. pumpkin, 2. pumpkin, 3. eggplant?, 4. sage2, 5. garlic chives, 6. corriander, 7. basil, 8. sage, 9. borage, 10. tomato, 11. lupin, 12. zucchini

Aren’t they fun! The pumpkins in the first two shots are the same plants a few weeks apart. The seeds just happen to be the ones from the pumpkin I made pumpkin pie with! I didn’t think they’d grow when I stuck them in the ground.

The instructions on the sage said ’sow in punnets’ so I did, however you’ll note the sage in photo 2 isn’t much smaller than the ones in photos 8. 4 are sown into the ground roughly 4 weeks ago, 8 into a pot nearly two months ago! Into the ground straight away from now on I say!

A week and a half ago my new hydrangea looked like this. Mainly green flowers with a hint of blue.

Less than two weeks later it looks like this:

We’ve been watering it with our grey water, at first it slowly went blue, now parts of it are going pink. Very little green left on the flowers at all. I love it!