Starts here …

I hope it starts warming up soon. Miners lettuce, anyone growing it? I was given some plantlets and not sure if I should plant it out or keep it in pots. It’s for the chooks in winter mainly. It’s like crack for chickens, they go mad for it.

Happy Potter said:

I hope it starts warming up soon. Miners lettuce, anyone growing it? I was given some plantlets and not sure if I should plant it out or keep it in pots. It’s for the chooks in winter mainly. It’s like crack for chickens, they go mad for it.

I’d have to google Miner’s Lettuce. However, I have lettuce all year round mostly self sown.

Apricot, plums, peaches and nectarines all burst into flower in the last 10 days.

Daffodils are marching through the different types. The first pheasant’s eye came out a couple of days ago. The early ones are finished. Erlicheer is just starting. Freesias just starting now. Lachanalias are finished. And the roses are making lovely red leaves like nobody’s business.

buffy said:

Apricot, plums, peaches and nectarines all burst into flower in the last 10 days.

Daffodils are marching through the different types. The first pheasant’s eye came out a couple of days ago. The early ones are finished. Erlicheer is just starting. Freesias just starting now. Lachanalias are finished. And the roses are making lovely red leaves like nobody’s business.

Sounds beautiful :)

buffy said:

Apricot, plums, peaches and nectarines all burst into flower in the last 10 days.

Daffodils are marching through the different types. The first pheasant’s eye came out a couple of days ago. The early ones are finished. Erlicheer is just starting. Freesias just starting now. Lachanalias are finished. And the roses are making lovely red leaves like nobody’s business.

The flowers in this photo are now plums.

And this afternoon it has started to rain, so I made a baby bonnet to send to my new grand/great niece. Didn’t go pinky girly…..

buffy said:

And this afternoon it has started to rain, so I made a baby bonnet to send to my new grand/great niece. Didn’t go pinky girly…..

lovely.

I may have become a tad over enthusiastic. Shortly there will be four bonnets here. I’ve done one for my mother to send – a traditional white one. And a red one and a green one. One of those will end up with my receptionist’s daughter’s baby – presently known as peanut, due in November.

Yes, just a bit over enthusiastic:

But they are fun to make.

I have a pattern for an adult bonnet which I want to make up for myself. I am now feeling a bit more enthusiastic about that, because the little ones look so good.

Yay! Our koala visitor from the Summer is back. And she has a baby. No pictures at the moment. Could have got really good ones tonight but I didn’t want to use the flash and frighten her.

buffy said:

Yay! Our koala visitor from the Summer is back. And she has a baby. No pictures at the moment. Could have got really good ones tonight but I didn’t want to use the flash and frighten her.

She would seem to be dog wary?

She’s most frequently in the back yard where the dogs are. If we notice her on the ground we lock up the dogs, but there must be times when we don’t notice. I’m more concerned that the koala would lash out and I’d have a visit to the vet with a dog with its nose ripped open. Buschka was very interested and pointed me to the right tree last week. We didn’t see the baby then, must have been pouched. The koala herself is very laid back and calm. The ravens have a go at her, and Auntie Annie tells me she sent Buschka out to chase the ravens away the other day. We weren’t around or we probably wouldn’t have done that.

Today she has moved elsewhere. I wonder when she will come back.

Seems she’s a good survivor anyway.

buffy said:

She’s most frequently in the back yard where the dogs are. If we notice her on the ground we lock up the dogs, but there must be times when we don’t notice. I’m more concerned that the koala would lash out and I’d have a visit to the vet with a dog with its nose ripped open. Buschka was very interested and pointed me to the right tree last week. We didn’t see the baby then, must have been pouched. The koala herself is very laid back and calm. The ravens have a go at her, and Auntie Annie tells me she sent Buschka out to chase the ravens away the other day. We weren’t around or we probably wouldn’t have done that.

Today she has moved elsewhere. I wonder when she will come back.

I believe they are territorial so you probably will see her from time to time.

Gardens are warming with the sun but sadly my asparagus hasn’t performed as of yet.. Maybe I need some that isn’t a hundred years old?

A quick visit to wish any who share the religion a very happy, healthy and peaceful New Year.

http://www.hebcal.com/holidays/rosh-hashana

Not much chit chat in here of late.

Now picking asparagus here. Had a good feed the other night, with Hollandaise made with our own eggs and lemons and local butter. Very yummy.

I think I may have quite a lot of garlic this season:

And the snap peas are getting very close…..lots and lots of flowers:

Working on getting rid of the irises in the middle of the veggie patch. I put them in there some years ago because I didn’t have anywhere to put them. Don’t want them any more. I’m gradually digging them out and destroying them. They are rather nice, but there is a limit…..

Can’t you rehomed them? I had quite a lot of things I didn’t want so I advertised them as free and I had people everywhere. It was a great way to meet the locals.

Garlic hasn’t been the best for me this year but I’ve been eating snap peas and snow peas for a while. Asparagus has finally started giving meals. Still furiously trying to get all the citrus picked and juiced.

bubba louie said:

Can’t you rehomed them? I had quite a lot of things I didn’t want so I advertised them as free and I had people everywhere. It was a great way to meet the locals.

I think I saturated that market over the last few years….

:)

buffy said:

bubba louie said:

Can’t you rehomed them? I had quite a lot of things I didn’t want so I advertised them as free and I had people everywhere. It was a great way to meet the locals.

I think I saturated that market over the last few years….

:)

points at the shredder. Toss them in with the other stuff you are shredding, a bit at a time so as not to clog it.

Long ago I lost interest in mcuh of what nurseries sell to gardeners, though I’ve earned much of my income from growing trees for nurseries because it is what they want to buy.

In general, nurseries don’t really want to handle natives. Therefore I took it upon myself to start a nursery that sold only natives.
The problems are;
• Natives need more TLC to handle in nurseries and deliver them in good fettle to consumers.
• If the above is done in good faith then the plants don’t die and it may be decades before that customer comes back looking for more.
• Customers seem to think that a native should cost far less than an invasive weed.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

bubba louie said:

Can’t you rehomed them? I had quite a lot of things I didn’t want so I advertised them as free and I had people everywhere. It was a great way to meet the locals.

I think I saturated that market over the last few years….

:)

points at the shredder. Toss them in with the other stuff you are shredding, a bit at a time so as not to clog it.

They go under the recycler mower.

buffy said:

bubba louie said:

Can’t you rehomed them? I had quite a lot of things I didn’t want so I advertised them as free and I had people everywhere. It was a great way to meet the locals.

I think I saturated that market over the last few years….

:)

Pity. I hate having to get rid of perfectly good plants.

Subject: SEEKING ANBG IMAGES OF THE PAST | Gardens reflections

Hello all,

Do you have images of the Gardens from throughout the decades that you would be willing to share?

As part of the Gardens 45th Anniversary celebrations, we will be running a social media campaign both posting and requesting from the public, images from the past. We will be using our own archive images (from staff and ANBG) to start the ball rolling. WE know staff are likely to have a reasonable collection of gems deeply hidden in boxes…

Images can include:

· Snapshots of staff in the Gardens and/or with family and friends in the Gardens in the past

· Sections of the Gardens as they were then

· People in the Gardens (sporting the fashion of the day)

· Any images that might show historic significance?

If you have some of these, they are likely from the pre-digital age – so it would be possible to either take a digital photo or scan of the photo and send to me with any of the following info:

· Approximate Date of image (to year or decade)

· Any information you are willing to share about the image

· Permission to use the image on social media (i.e. Facebook, instagram, twitter)

Daffodils. I have at least one variety of daffodils which are luscious in growth but no flowers whatsoever this year. They are naturalized, and previously flowered. My receptionist also has had this experience with some of hers this year. I guess it must be the weather. Other drifts, of different varieties, have flowered and flowered quite well.

And while I’m inside, I need to find a deep, deep hell to banish cleavers and wall fumitory to. I don’t think the one I sent the couch grass god to was deep enough…..