Our Gardens
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Hello @jennyss
Thankyou for your compliment.
The vegie havens were converted from our huge avairies. When my husband designed the avairies drawing out the layouts on graph paper he overlooked the fact that one square equalled one metre!
The avairies were part of our garden for nearly twenty years, full of birds that bred continually and then were given away to give joy to someone else. They were a King's Palace for birds. There was even a pond and a park bench inside.
Sadly along came BC coupled with a lung disease and the upkeep of the birds and avairies became all too much and the joy in keeping birds was passed onto others. However a silver lining emerged and they became excellent structures for me to "potter" around in. The park bench is now in the garden, but a milk crate suffices.
As to snails and wine. A waste of a good bottle finding out!
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picked these lovelies from my garden earlier in the week. Going to try and pick them more often to enjoy them.
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@Locksley
Oh they are beautiful. You must pick and pick and pick.
When I lived in the south of Western Australia, I grew beautiful roses, however I hankered for a tropical garden.
You know, the palms, the caladiums, the crotons, the orchids, the colourful foliage plants.
Now I live in the tropics with all those plants in my garden and what do I hanker for - a rose garden!
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Yep, Beer. Works a treat. Only problem is, you need to tip the dead snails out every morning as they do tend to smell after a bit. Unfortunately, my french bulldog was quite taken with the smell of beer and the container was dug up and chewed to bits. I need to put in a pottery one next time.3
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What a difference 2 months and 391mls of rain for the month of December in northern Australia makes. A Wet Season is an experience! The change is stunning and startling.
This photo was taken in late October 2020. Our garden was showing signs of stress and our bore (our only supply of water for all household and garden use) was beginning to be "tasty".
This is the same spot today, 07 January, 2021. The bush has "greened up". The boab tree is in full leaf. I could wander through the sparse undergrowth two months ago, now I need a machete to hack my way through. The aquifer has been recharged, the lawns need mowing almost daily and our bore water is "sweet".
Our driveway in mid December after a 50ml downfall in 20 minutes. The mud was ankle deep. I got "bogged" walking out to my sewing room that is to the left of the palms and there is now a "Road Closed" sign on our road just before our gate.
Ah, life in the Kimberley in the Wet Season.
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@Caz1
Thankyou. The tree is a Poinciana. There are 12 on our block. Most are now about 15 metres in height. We planted the first one when we bought the bush block and "humpy" in July 1997. A neighbour gave us a 30 cm sapling as a house welcoming present.
We really did buy "The Little House on The Prairie". The house was literally a humpy requiring a lot of work and the "prairie" was wattle and cane grass right to the front door! Not a blade of green anywhere.
Over the years the others have been either planted by us or spread by the parrots. The parrots have been skilled gardeners and dropped the seeds in the best spot.
Poinciana trees line our driveway and ring the house providing shade, privacy and colour. In the Wet Season when the Poincianas flower, there is a riot of red and green surrounding the house. I love driving home, because as I crest the hill to our block and look down the road to the house the trees are a feast of red and green.
Most of the flowers have dropped now, making a carpet of red over the lawns and pathways. A bit of a mess, but a good downpour and the pathways are clean and I regard the fallen flowers on the lawns as good mulch!
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Dear @Annie C,
Thank you for the description of your garden; and garden history - beautiful. We have been in our house near Dubbo NSW for 19 years. It is at the edge of a rural village. A very basic garden of pot plants, a few bushes and about 10 trees including Kurrajongs and bottle trees which we have planted near the house and in the paddock. It is good to see birds using the trees.1 -
Just picked these lovely fragrant camp David roses in the rain. Feeling flat after radiation and they have made me feel a little better.
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Beautiful @Locksley! I was intrigued by the name of the rose, so looked it up on wikipedia. I read that " 'Camp David' is a red hybrid tea rose developed by Mathias Tantau, Jr. in 1984. While the rose was hybridized in Germany, it was not introduced in its home country but in Australia, where the cultivar is well liked." However, no explanation of the name of the rose.3
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Hi Jennyss, I never thought about the name. I even thought it may have had something to do with where the USA president holidays I think that is called Camp David but I am not sure! My brain is toast these days. The fragrance is lovely and it's a long stem rose. I have 4 of them as standard roses and I Have to make sure I pick the flowers because the rose gets so heavy they often fall over. I have a couple of roses that need restaking at the moment but I have to pick the jobs I can do.3
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Yes, I too thought the rose must be named after the Camp David hideaway for American presidents. I'll see if I can find any further information. Or perhaps one of our network buddies knows more?1
