The 2015 Bundanoon Garden Ramble
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Unfortunately we only got to four of the gardens on show at the 2015 Bundanoon Garden Ramble, but what we did see was lovely. Hopefully these photos will do the gardens justice.

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Last updated 11 November 2015

February 2015 – Summer
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We’re already three weeks into autumn, so this update is a bit late, much like all of my gardening plans were this summer. The birth of The Daughter in mid-December rather threw my good intentions into disarray. I knew she would keep us busy, but was entirely unprepared for just how busy! So, unfortunately all my gardening goals for the … Continue reading

Last updated 22 March 2015

Photos from Sydney’s Chinese Gardens 2014
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A couple of weeks ago we went for a very pleasant visit to the wonderful Chinese Garden of Friendship in Sydney’s Darling Harbour area. Having been there many times before, there were no real surprises, but it is looking particularly beautiful at the moment. Not much else to say about it really, but I did take a bunch of photos… … Continue reading

Last updated 13 December 2014

November 2014 – Spring
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Spring in Our Highland Garden has been a great success, with our fruit trees thriving, our veggie garden going great guns and our bulbs bursting into bloom.

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Last updated 30 November 2014

Walnut Tree
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Our walnut tree arrived last autumn as a “bare root” delivery, with instructions to get it into the ground ASAP, before the roots dried out. As I was busy all day, it lay around until evening, and I had to plant it in the dark (somewhat crookedly and not necessarily at the right depth – the ambient starlight leaving the hole pitch black).

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Last updated 20 November 2014

Cherry Trees
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I have planted two cherry trees in our orchard, one a ‘Stella’ cherry and the other a ‘Sunburst’ cherry. They came as bare root stock, and I planted them with only a little spare fertiliser.

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Last updated 20 November 2014

Shady Lady Waratahs
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We had a 20m span, from the Red Robin hedge to the nature strip, to fill. Allowing for a screening overlap, I planted 18 Shady Lady Waratahs, 1 metre apart. The plants came in a good looking potting mix, and I have since added some low phosphorus fertiliser.

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Last updated 4 November 2014

Apple Trees
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Over the past couple of years, I’ve planted three apple trees. One of which is a fancy (possibly gimmicky) dual-varieties-off-a-single-root-graft type of thing. The four types of apples we should get from these three trees are Pink Ladies, Granny Smith, and the multigrafted Gala and Fuji.

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Last updated 26 September 2014

August 2014 – Winter
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This winter has been a quiet time in our garden. I’ve generally been too lethargic to get out into the freezing cold, and the garden has been complicit in my laziness, with very little growth going on. We’ve had virtually no rain since the downpour in May, and the grass has been shrinking rather than growing, so there hasn’t been … Continue reading

Last updated 12 August 2014