Road trip part 2 – A Secret Garden

Fairy toadstool

Last week I posted about our apple-tasting trip to Wychwood in Mole Creek.  This week, I continue, with quite a photo-laden post about the garden itself. It was absolutely divine… They have so many gorgeous things to look at, I can’t decide what not to post! They also have about the same amount of land as us, and it […]

Road trip part 1 – she’ll be apples…

Miss E's favourite apple tree

Yesterday, we cursed took advantage of the extra early post-daylight savings wake-up call and packed the kids in the car for a road trip ‘up North’… We were heading to Mole Creek to visit a garden that was part of the Open Garden scheme. I think we aged 10 years as soon as we jumped […]

Let the children play – dirt!!

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What a gorgeous, sunny day we had yesterday. While Master O napped, I spent some fun times with Miss E in the dust bowl that is the land surrounding our house (I still don’t think I could call it a garden!) We had been planting in the morning and Miss E had been playing around […]

The orchard – or how to feed the local wallaby population…

Mystery Olive

We’ve had a wonderful time whilst the in-laws have been down (no really, I am one of those strange folk who actually LIKE their inlaws and enjoy their visits – I know, I KNOW… everyone thinks I am crazy). We visited lots of nurseries and they also helped us with stocking up on plants for […]

The Backyard Farmer – Preparing is Caring

Seed packets

The Poor Backyard Farmer!!  Her crops are wilting, her beds are almost bare.    Its time to spruce up for the new season and get to planting! Himself is in love with these little things called jiffy pods (used for nurturing his chilli’s, of which we currently have about 30 individual plants, including the top […]

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