Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts

Friday, February 04, 2011

Summer Morning in the Community Garden

This morning Orsie and I took a stroll up the lane way to the community garden. My word she's looking good. Sunflowers as tall as houses, beans twisting and curling around their tee pees, herbs looking bushy and green, and the most fabulous shocking pink rhubarb. Take a look.




Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Redfern Gardeners Club

So I told you a while ago about the community garden that was being established at the end of our laneway right? Well, after just two working bees with about 20+ local men, women, children and dogs working feverishly, I am very pleased to let you that the garden is planted, the seedlings are sown.

So, I worked on the herb garden bed with Young St local, Corinne and we planted about 30 seedlings including rosemary, thyme, sage, basil, parsley (both types), coriander, lemongrass, chives, garlic chives, oregano and many more that I can no longer remember. As a centrepiece we planted a magnificent mature yellow nasturtium, very kindly donated by my green thumb landscaping neighbour John.

So I'm currently on Tuesday watering duty, until I go back to work when I might take on a lazy summer evening watering shift. Picture it... gently watering all the growing plants while watching the neighbours come home from work, with the crickets and cicadas singing while the sun goes down. Not a bad life.

Sunday, September 05, 2010

Our Spring Garden


You may recall I wrote a while ago about our very bare looking winter garden. Well, spring has sprung folks and last weekend Orsie, Trent, Riley and I hit the courtyard with much Springtime garden gusto.

The main projects were to find and plant new climbers and shrubs along the back fence to grow quickly and give screening and privacy (and some lovely perfumed flowers hopefully) and to re-establish the herb garden. We took a little excursion to the local nursery and found everything we needed and then proceded to plant to our hearts content. Tick. Tick. Done! Oh and I have a very soft spot for geraniums cascading out of terracotta pots (it's the Italian in me) so I popped a beautiful little one in an old sentimental pot. Here's hoping it thrives.

Orsie even helped out watering in some of the new plants god love him. And he never can resist sampling a bit of the soil. A green thumb in the making methinks.

Stay tuned for more pics as flowers (hopefully!) come to hand.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

James St Community Garden


So a lovely neighbour of mine, (John the landscape gardener) told me a while ago about a small group of people from my local area who were working towards getting council approval to build a community garden.

Ever since falling in love with the River Cottage series on tele featuring Hugh Fernley Whittingstall, I've been keen on being part of such a project. Well now that's about to happen. The project team for the James St Community Garden in Redfern, have had their application approved and an $8,000 grant donated. After receiving a mailbox flier asking for interested people to attend a meeting a few weeks back, I got involved.

We start work on our little patch next Saturday, August 21, and I have to say, I'm more than just a little bit excited. I shall keep you up to date on our working bees, the development of the garden and any interesting gardening facts which should come my way.

Friday, July 30, 2010

The Power of a Flower


Trudging out to the laundry yesterday in torrential rain, I can't tell you how happy I was to discover the arrival of my first camelia. Having watched my two camelias do very little but sprout leaves and get taller over the past 2 years, I feel positively warm and gooey when I look at my lovely first fleur. It's not particularly big and fluffy, nor it is perfectly white a la the Chanel varieties but it's real and it's mine.

When I last reported on le jardin, I may have mentioned my ceremonial planting of some new white Begonias... or I might not have, can't remember, no brain at the moment. Anyway, no signs of life there yet but stay tuned. And the lemons well they just keep on coming god love them. All this rain is totally their cup of tea.

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Le jardin d'hiver

This morning Orsie joined me for a spot of green-thumbery in our very overlooked "garden". I gave the camellias a quick prune, fixed up the lemon tree a bit and pulled out some dead herbs which died as a result of too much rain over the last few weeks. The bougainvilleas or bogans as they are fondly referred to in our house, are very much leafless and sad looking, (I'm hoping that they hibernate in the winter) however I can happily report that all is not lost in the winter garden: our parsley is thriving and our lemon tree is fruitful.

I plan on reviving the garden once the renovations are complete. There doesn't seem much point fixing it up a treat when it will be shortly covered in a thick film of dust and rubbish now does there. It's a small space but there's enough room for our BBQ, a little more storage in the form of a cool BBQ unit built in along the western wall and re-planting of all the plants. I'm thinking herbs for la cucina and lots of fragrant and pretty white flowers... ah... it's nice to dream. See lemon tree positively prospering below.

While I'm at it, here are a few pics from my Dad's garden last Winter in lovely Hobart.