Another somewhat dull and dismal day, but the garden is loving it... And finally, we have new life outside the front fence! My lupins are almost all sprouting, and the dichondra has come up too
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| Baby lupins |
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| My new footpath with berms |
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| baby dichondra |
Our youngest daughter bought miniature roses, but the flowers themselves have died, so I could only photograph the labels. Tracey Wickham and Red Ace are the varieties. They'll go into the potted garden the girls and I are planning outside their bedroom window. For now, they're keeping our seedlings company in the greenhouse. As you can see, Sam has had a fair bit of new growth in last week's seeds he laid down.
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| Miniature roses |
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| Sam's newest seedlings |
Sam got his first couple of Christmas presents from me early, because I can never resist! First was a gorgeous wooden chess and backgammon set I picked up at a local second hand shop. Then I came across a perennial basil. With basil being Sam's favourite herb, I just HAD to buy it!
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| perennial "African Blue" basil |
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| chess on the outside |
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| backgammon and storage on the inside |
The monarch butterflies have started hanging around again too... The swan plants in the front garden are already covered in caterpillars, so I'm hoping to get the asclepias and swan plants in our greenhouse up to a decent size in the next week or two, before we start desperately needing caterpillar food
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| our other swan plant |
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| swan plant with caterpillars |
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| evening primrose and assorted wildflowers |
My evening primrose has been growing vigourously, with no flowers yet, but the alyssum and various other wildflowers in the same tyre have started blooming.
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| no longer a "has-bean" |
The bean plant our youngest boy started at school (which I nearly killed off not long after) has taken off now, and is loving our lasagna garden
The first raspberry ripened and I got to steal it before anyone else in the house could find it! It was absolutely delicious!
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| the first raspberry |
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| spotted it! |
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| broccoli seed pods |
Our broccoli in the front yard has produced amazing amounts of seed pods, and finally they're almost ready to pick. I'm looking forward to trying our seed out for the first time.
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