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I wish this was my garden, but at least it is mine for a week!
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Photo from my rainforest walks
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Spring has sprung! Geraniums and petunias and succulents are about what I can manage.
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@jennyss
Beautiful, I love how the succulents cascade over the logs. Petunias and geraniums won't grow in the Kimberley (I ignored the advice of the old timers and wasted money trying, they were right!).
Succulents do well, surprisingly. For a long while I resisted - they were not exotic enough. Then, on a day trip to Broome, that big green store, whose name begins with a 'B' and where "team members" all wear green aprons, had a wonderful display of succulents and I was hooked.
The result, a succulent bed established in a shady area of the front garden. Should look lush in a few years. That is, if I stop cutting bits off for propagating.
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A blackbird has built a nest in a pot plant outside my kitchen window, so far two babies have hatched. Mum is not too fussed about us watching her through the window and I got a quick picture when she wasn’t around and I was giving the pots a bit of water. It’s been lovely watching the way nature works up close.10 -
I didn't know whether to post this photo of a carrot grown by me here, or in Friday Funnies!
We have a small circular corrugated iron raised vegie bed and recently have grown silver beet, radishes and carrots.
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@jennyss
Haha your carrot's pose reminds me of when I sneeze and her thighs look like mine!!
There are good signs that we are in for a good "Wet". The poinciana trees are blooming in abundance and the boabs are in leaf and flower much earlier than usual. (Except not the boab in the photo, he is always much slower that the others on the block). I hope so because then the block's "dry season" look will disappear under a carpet of lush green.
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My favourite time of year. Lots of colour in the garden. A handful of Irises with a little piece of Golden Elm sitting proudly on the Woodheater. To think it was only 12 degrees yesterday and the woodheater keeping us warm and today was 22!
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Hi @iserbrown
Your irises are lovely. I also have a few irises flowering. I only ever picked them once and the irises dripped colour (deep purple) and stained my tablecloth. I just thought oh well they shouldn't be picked as flowers in a vase. I wonder if I did something wrong. Do you pick them and vase them regularly.0 -
Help needed for suggestions for Protection for zucchini seedlings.
Hi Everyone, I am providing a buffet style dinner in my little veggie patch for snails. I have a dog so I don't put down snail pellets. I have been crushing up egg shells and putting around the seedlings but somehow the snails are doing some incredible moves to wrangle their way around and between any gaps in the shells and continue feasting on my seedlings. Apart from sitting outside each night with a torch to catch the buggers - does anyone have any other suggestions I can try. (apart from just purchasing zucchinis at supermarket!).1 -
Yes - this is my third vase of Irises inside from my current flowering. I haven't had drips from the Iris but I have had from the Banksias and Red Hot Pokers. I always put them in water and then cut the bottom again before arranging.
I keep mine out of direct sunlight when inside.
Hope this helps - From Google
Display the flowers in a position where they are protected from direct sunlight, breezes and intense heat. If they are bearded irises (Iris germanica hybrids, USDA zones 4 to 10), keep them on an easily washable surface rather than an expensive tablecloth because their blooms may drip a sap that can stain.
With the right care, iris should last for 5 to 7 days. Upon arriving home, follow a few simple steps to get the most out of your blooms: When you get home, stand the wrapped flowers in water so they can get a good drink while you're getting the vase ready.
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Thank you
My vase was on my dining table which gets a bit of direct sunlight. I look forward tp picking some more and trying again because they are so beautiful. 0 -
Hello @Locksley
There is nothing more disappointing than to discover that pests have decided to dine on carefully nurtured vege seedlings.
A suggestion for your snail problem. I learnt my gardening eons ago from my dad and grandfather. They were excellent vege gardeners.
Their solution to snails was beer. They would tip a glass of beer in a container buried level with the soil and then place an upturned pot with entrance holes cut into it over the dish. Apparently snails are attracted to the yeast in beer, take a dive and "pickle" themselves. The sozzled little sods were then fed to the chooks. Grandad swore that the resulting eggs were the best!
The remainder of the bottle of beer dad and grandad drunk together, sitting on a jarrah log down the back by the old shed. And of course the snail's beer just had to be changed every day in the late afternoon after work. They knew how to do it.
Snails are the one thing I don't have in my Kimberley vege garden - grasshoppers (huge ones), bobtails, snakes, bungarras who undermine everywhere, snakes, frogs and a variety of munching creatures who make regular assaults on my leafy greens, but not snails.
This is how I grow my veges, in wicking beds made from polystrene packing boxes in an enclosed vege house to keep Mr Bower Bird out.
There are now three vege houses, one for tomatoes, one for leafy greens and one for cucumbers, zuchinis, capsicums, chillies and egg plant. Only watermelon, rockmelon, pumpkins and snake beans are grown outside the vege houses. We converted our previous avairies into these enclosed areas.
Give the beer a go and enjoy the gardening.
Annie9
