I now have a better appreciation for why my little son was so distressed when he got bitten by a mahoosive ant (about an inch long). I was gardening this morning, and picked up a handful of grass and clover I had pulled out. At first I thought something in the weeds must have had...
Gardens. A new thing to me – well, nice gardens are, at any rate. Last year our roses were a bit sad, with blackspot, aphids, two plants not blooming at all … This year I’m more on top of things, and I gave them a good prune, and we fed and sprayed them properly, and...
It’s the weekend, so I’ve been gardening, and can’t resist posting “yet another cherry update”™ :-p Also, I’ve pulled out a couple of dead things that didn’t survive last summer’s 45 deg C heat, or our recent big winds. In their place I’ve put in a couple of “extremely hardy” plants: a Westingra Glabra: and an...
I know I would be boring the world, if the world were reading, but I simply have to post another progress pic of our weeping cherry planted only a week ago: It’s really going to look beautiful ^_^
Nice and satisfied I’ve just planted a Weeping Cherry tree in our front garden. It’s got a whole heap of buds on it, so I’m fairly hopeful we might even have some flowers this year.
