This is swiftly turning into a gardening blog. ‘Yet another photograph of a plant’ is my most-used tag. When I moved into this house, three years ago there was an unprepossessing twig growing just below the porch which had been hacked back to within an inch of it’s life. I thought it might be some … Continue reading wisteriaful
Recently I saw THIS NECKLACE on etsy and fell in love. I’m going through a bit of a love affair with Dandelion. It’s a mysterious yet common plant – it has manifold healing properties. It is rich in history and symbolism. You can eat all parts of it. You can’t ever kill it off your … Continue reading a wish for you, a wish for me
Do you remember playing with flowers out of the garden when you were a kid? Making perfumes, or fairy rings, or the thrill when a flower was of such a small scale that it was the right size for a doll bouquet? (The best flower for this was alyssum, I remember, which was the perfect … Continue reading posy bottles, pixie bouquets, fairy bundles
Happy spring! *cue ubiquitous Daffodil photograph* I took this photograph at Mount Lees Reserve which was a-romp with daffodils. I don’t even like daffodils! but they are eye-catching en masse…. Here is a recent op-shopping haul: I’ve been looking for some kind of baskety receptacle for when I pick things out of the garden – … Continue reading receptacles, ted hughes and a pony
It’s like Colleen, Angela, the ‘len’ of Lena, the ‘ula’ of Tallullah all in one word, and it’s the name of a brilliant herb flower. While the vegetable garden is a sea of wintery green, the one bright spot is the border of calendula which is flowering in overdrive right now. I always grow calendula … Continue reading i’ve always thought Calendula would make a great girl’s name
How is the first official week of winter treating you? (Game of Thrones fans will get the reference here….) Here is some vegetable bunting I made for the kitchen because….well, just because: Here’s some stuff from the op-shop lately. (I buy most of my clothes from the op-shop also, but they aren’t all that exciting … Continue reading gifts from the thrift
As a keen forager myself, I was so excited to hear that my friend Johanna Knox was writing a foraging guide for New Zealand, but despite the fact I was pre-disposed to like it, I am truly impressed and in awe of what she has produced. It is a beautifully written, helpful and down-to-earth book … Continue reading Interview with Johanna Knox author of ‘A Forager’s Treasury’
…a hungry man, is an angry man! I’ve taken to listening to a local Reggae-all-the-time radio station instead of National Radio. The mix of hardcore left politics, quirky christian imagery and a zen-like focus on simple pleasures (food, weather, love) is comforting to me. More comforting than the news, which, lets face it, is always … Continue reading him belly full, but him hungry…
I was talking to a friend on the phone is early-January and she said: ‘I bet your vege garden is going for it right now’ and I said ‘Actually, no, we are only really getting salad greens and herbs – everything is still growing.” How quickly this changes! A couple of weeks after that, we … Continue reading harvest time
I spent a lot of time in the kitchen over the weekend – prepping food out of the garden for the winter months, making food for the family and doing a bit of Virgoan re-organisation. I love hanging out in the kitchen – I listen to podcasts, or just mull through the detritus in my … Continue reading kitchen daze
