Oh dear.

This is something that was definitely meant to stay out in the garden. Marcus just thought it was sick and was hoping we could make it feel better. No more chance of that.

Walnut Tree.

This tree gives us walnuts and also provides the kids with some entertainment.

A bouquet.

All these flowers came out of the garden and I gave them to a friend. What a great feeling to be able to gather from my garden a gift that no women can say no to.

Seedlings

It's well and truly the time of the year for planting seedlings so I got pretty excited the other day when I arrived home from my overseas trip and bought 6 tomato plants, zucchini, cucumber, eggplant, beetroot, lettuce and pumpkin. I also got them planted into the ground the same day. Still have to go and get more seedlings to fill the rest of the planter boxes, that can wait until next week.

Silverbeet

Along with the carrots another plant that grew really well was silverbeet which was another veggie I could go and cut out of the garden as I needed it. (Great to throw into stir fries). As there is so much of the silverbeet I feed the excess to the chooks.

Carotts

I planted plenty of carrots for us and they have lasted for a few months. Whenever I wanted to have carrots for dinner or for juicing I just walked down to the veggie patch and pulled them straight out of the garden. What a great feeling.

Roses planted.

I waited for the rose cuttings to grow roots and then I planted them out into the garden. They seem to have taken off really well.

Lavender

What country garden doesn't have lavenders? The pink one is so pretty and the purple one has taken off now that the weather has warmed up.

Plum tree update.

After the blossoms fall off the trees the fruit appears and these trees are ladened with plums.

irises irises irises

I never knew there were so many different varieties of irises, and five of them are in my garden!

Garden Gnome

I found this little fellow in my herb garden hiding amongst the mint leaves. I think he has been there a long time and I have no plans of moving him.

The daffodils in my garden.

The garden came alive in winter with all these daffodils. It was such a delight to see all the different varieties just in our garden. Earlier in the year I bought a bag of 75 daffodil bulbs which I planted well before winter. I now know there was already an ample amount of daffodil bulbs in the ground. The first flower below (yellow petals, orange centre) I think would have to be one of the most perfect flowers I've ever seen. The minature daffodils look quite sweet, with up to seven flowers on one stem. I just loved walking around the garden finding new flowers growing, I loved looking at them all.

Jackson's Daffodils.

Last weekend we visited Jackson's Daffodils open weekend. (I asked Jon to come along and told him he can come take some photos for me, I thought that would be enough to convince him to come along, lol). They open up their acres of daffodils for the public to come and visit and have a look. We had about 10 mins to look around before it started raining again. I thought it all looked so beautiful, could have walked around for hours.




Daffodils just aren't simple yellow daffodils, there are 1000's of different varieties.



After running to the car we went and had a look at some prize winning daffodils. They even had afternoon tea on offer. We certainly enjoyed our nice hot cup of tea and scones. YUM!

Hyacinths

These Hyacinths were a treasure. It was a surprise to see 2 flowers growing from 1 plant.

R.I.P. Erik.

Erik was my constant companion in the garden, no matter where I went in the garden he was by my side. We all enjoyed having him around even when he chased the chooks, or dug up veggies to bury a bone or let off the silent but ever so violent Erik farts, he was part of the family. He will be missed. xxx

Fire Wood

It's nice to know I'm not the only one in the garden. We had this huge delivery of timber delivered and Jonny has been out there chopping it up any chance he gets. It's always good when others want to give him a lending hand.

Looks like spring in the garden.

We're in the last few weeks of winter and the garden feels like spring. Our plum trees are in full bloom.