Category: flowers
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a and s’s beautiful permaculture garden
One of my favourite things to do is to visit other people’s vegetable gardens and have a good nose around…I always learn so much and get inspired to go home and get into my own. Here are some photographs from a beautiful, well-established permaculture garden I visited in late spring last year. (It belongs to…
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fresh inspiration
When is an ‘inspiration wall’ not an inspiration wall? When it’s been up for almost two years and you’ve stopped seeing it anymore… I have a creative room out in my backyard. Our garage was converted to a sleepout by previous owners and now we’ve set it up so half of it is guest-room (well,…
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Walnuts, irises, peas….
Over autumn I foraged HEAPS of walnuts, plus my parents gave me a big box….they’ve been drying off for six weeks. I’ve just started cracking into them and they are good, fresh, earthy, delicious. Now I have a happy walnut glut and will be thinking of ways to use walnuts so if you have any…
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picking up what the wind drops
I took a walk to a nearby section where an old house had recently been demolished. They are building shops there. I dug up a wormwood plant and rescued an iron gate from a skip which I’ll use as a frame for beans in the vegetable garden. When I walk I am looking for stray…
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golden sunflowers inside
I didn’t have much luck with sunflowers last summer – I planted a whole packet in the corn bed but only three came all the way up and one of those got blown over and snapped in a storm. Still, the two that made it were glorious in the way that sunflowers are. There’s nothing…
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seed heads
Often, if a plant isn’t taking up space I need for something else, I’ll let it go to seed. Partly because then it will drop it’s seed everywhere and next year I might get plant babies, and partly because I love seeing what plants do when they go to seed. Have you ever let a…
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What the garden was doing at the turn of the new year…
Happy New Year! I’m starting my year on the blog as I mean to go on – with excessive photographs of plants. Here is a snapshot of the garden on January 1 2012. There are new peas everyday – they never make it inside because we always eat them right there, standing beside the garden.…
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The Comforter Cocktail
The Comforter Cocktail We made this in a big punch bowl, but of course you can make it by the glass also. One part Blackcurrant Vodka Four parts soda water Enough rose-infused sugar syrup to make it pink and tasty. This is the stuff I used – it’s French, lovely and costs about $18 for…
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lean in
I went to the Pohangina valley. Clean spring green. PIcked up heart shaped rocks. Picked up broken glass. Picked up. They were throwing stones in the water. I walked away from the splashing. I walked past the Friday night fire pits, the Woodstock cans and pizza boxes. The trees along the bank were just flowering.…
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the poppies live on
A few years ago, I rescued a whole lot of plants from a garden in my old neighbourhood which was about to be demolished. When I moved to my new house, just over a year ago, I was careful to shift a lot of the tiny poppy baby plants from the legacy of that garden-save.…
Helen Lehndorf 