Winter/June 2o19
Poinsettia preparing for winter colour.
Sweetpotatoes growing in the kitchen garden.
The lovely french rose Perle D'or visited by the tiny native bees (Tetragonula bees) I have two hives on the wall of the house. These tiny bees are stingless.
One of many favourites, Salvia, Embers Wish.
Favourite inhabitant in my garden.
Australian water dragon. Intellagama lesueurii
The Australian water dragon, which includes the eastern water dragon and the Gippsland water dragon subspecies, is an arboreal agamid species native to eastern Australia from Victoria northwards to Queensland.
....and sometimes I have the cutest visitors in the garden.
....awakening flower of the sour sop fruit.
Soursop is the fruit of Annona muricata, a broadleaf, flowering, evergreen tree. The exact origin is unknown; it is native to the tropical regions of the Americas and the Caribbean and is widely propagated. It is in the same genus, Annona, as cherimoya and is in the Annonaceae family.
In the herb garden, not just herbs, also playful, makes a happy life.
Humanity needs gardens, the symbols of life and beauty and sadly the cruelty of nature, the impermanence of everything living. Ts
Sometimes I find a little reminder from my youngest granddaughter, in a cookbook.
(Goi=Grossmammi=grandma Swiss German was to long a word for a tiny girl, she shortened it to Goi and it stayed that way.
Hidden away in a overgrown garden nook I found this long forgotten, sweet Orchid. Unfortunately the name is long forgotten.
quite like the self sown Coleus, enjoying the morning sun.
For now...until tomorrow if and when it comes..
“For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, but it may stand for garden in your tongue. In this box there is earth from my orchard, and such blessing as Galadriel has still to bestow is upon it. It will not keep you on your road, nor defend you against any peril; but if you keep it and see your home again at last, then perhaps it may reward you. Though you should find all barren and laid waste, there will be few gardens in Middle-earth that will bloom like your garden, if you sprinkle this earth there. Then you may remember Galadriel, and catch a glimpse far off of Lórien, that you have seen only in our winter. For our spring and our summer are gone by, and they will never be seen on earth again save in memory.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
Ts for Lavender and Vanilla
