Today was finally a gorgeous day at my place: clear blue sky, a comfortable temperature and a lovely breeze. It made me appreciate having taken a chunk of time out recently to work in my garden – which very badly needed some love and attention!
So while I was taking a much-needed break away from my bench I decided I’d nip outside and take some photographs of garden happenings – and I’m sharing some of them with you here.
I planted the yellow pansies a while back – just two tiny punnets of them … which have taken off and now take up a big chunk of this garden bed! The larger purple and yellow one grew from one of the seeds I threw in a while back.
Some of the photographs are of plants I’ve put in myself since moving in. Others have been here for a very long time, I suspect – and many have managed to surprise me without any effort whatsoever on my part.
These raspberries are a perfect example of that. I’ve just ignored them, thinking that nothing would grow on them and if it did the possums or birds would get to it first! But right now every day I managed to harvest a few absolutely delicious raspberries – just enough to stand next to the garden bed and snack on them.
Soon these will be ready for eating – can’t wait!
This little violet is native to the Blue Mountains. I picked it up from the Blue Mountains Conservation Society recently – along with some other seedlings – and hope that it will eventually fill in an empty space, along with a collection of other violets.
Sadly climbing roses are a bit of a pest in this part of the world – a weed, in fact, as they grow so easily that they escape gardens and crop up in the wilderness. My driveway is full of them – they’ve almost certainly been growing here for many, many years. And in spite of their ‘weed’ status, I enjoy looking out of my studio window at the wall of pink flowers just now.
I have quite a few hydrangea bushes in the garden and these are one of the plants doing perfectly well without any help from me! The flowers will be really lovely shortly once they are in full bloom.
Gardens can be scary too!
While I was outside photographing things today, I found myself being much more wary than normal. Yesterday I was sitting on the back porch having some breakfast and coffee. While watching the butterflies and listening to the birds, some unexpected movement caught my eye.
And there, just a metre or so away from where I sat, was a brown snake wriggling its way across my lawn! I sat there stunned for a moment before hurriedly picking up my bowl and cup and racing inside! It was only about half a metre long, but these are the second deadliest snake in the world, so I doubt the fact that this one was young would have helped much if it decided to get cross with me!
Given the type of garden I have and the fact that it’s not too close to the wilderness (it’s a few minutes walk away), I didn’t imagine there would be snakes lurking around in it. But apparently there are! So from now on I’m going to need to be a lot more careful when outside on warm days – especially when digging around, weeding or moving rocks, which I’ve been doing a lot of lately … eek!
You can find more garden photos on my Flickr – but none of the snake (I didn’t have time to get a shot of it!).
Today I took some photographs in my garden – part of researching for new jewellery designs, but also just because the flowers are so beautiful now that spring is in full swing. So I thought I’d share some of them.
In the spirit of not working every single waking moment of every single day, today I made the most of the lovely spring weather to finally spend some time sorting out my little courtyard.
