Crazy Car Man is an excellent gardening companion, in the fact that he doesn’t really give two hoots about the garden itself, but he really truly values my happiness. On his suggestion, in the face of the impending ‘cyclone that isn’t a cyclone just really crappy weather’ we moved the majority of my potted plants and vegetables into various sheds and the laundry, to preserve their lives and subsequently my mood!
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Carroty Radishy Results of Cabin Fever
Introducing the Porch Garden
My porch – or conservatory when we’re stroking it’s ego – is the home of my favourite and most special ornamental plants. Some were gifts, some were impulse buys, some I know the name and provenance and others are a complete mystery. On nice days I sit out there and talk to them, and on days like today when the ‘cyclone that isn’t a cyclone just really crappy weather’ hits, I go out there because I have cabin fever!
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Seduction in the Porch Garden
It amazes me how adept my North American Pitcher Plant Sarracenia X Areolata is at seducing it’s next feed. All I can say is that the bugs in my area are a bunch of tarts!
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One Man’s Trash…..
What better way to pass the time on a bizarre still Sunday whilst waiting for the ‘cyclone’ to hit than going for a cruise in the Kingswood with Crazy Car Man, scouting the junk piles in the wealthy area just south of us for detritus I can use in the garden?
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Completely Pickled
It’s been thoroughly miserable here for the last few days – absolutely torrential rain and I’ve been going spare, looking out the window at my garden and not being willing to brave the downpour to get out there and play.
As an antidote to all the grey, I popped the seal on a jar of pickled summer.
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Rainbow Harvest
This rainbow chard is the best, most satisfying thing I’ve ever grown. Not only is it beautiful, but it’s quick growing and, as I’ve found out this evening, quite delicious! And it’s cut and come again, which instantly gives it garden kudos.
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Flowers in a Barrow
I’ve done it. I’ve slid down the slippery slope into the world of garden frippery. Not only has a gnome made it’s sneaky way into my garden, but now, so has a wheelbarrow. And not a wheelbarrow for wheeling things around, oh no, but a wheelbarrow as a planter. It’s a downward spiral from now on, today a wheelbarrow, next month a wishing well and by Christmas a kangaroo, in a hat with corks, fishing from a fake pond. Sigh.
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It Eats
My Nepenthes is all grown up. It went from a foetus to a fully functioning member of society in the space of a month. I’m starting to feel a little apprehensive checking out it’s innards these days – my baby has turned into a teenager and Facebook only knows what it’s getting up to in the privacy of it’s own room!
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Rainbow Chard Update
My rainbow chard are the pride of my garden at this point in time. They are healthy and gorgeous and growing like champions. I truly live up to the moniker of Crazy Garden Lady when I go out to my garden to look at my lovelies – happy clappy and the two busted ankle jig – so much garden performance art.
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Légume d’art
I had a very specific plan when I ordered seed for my current vegie plot. Anything that sounded interesting that I had not seen for sale in the supermarket or greengrocer was going to have a chance in my little garden.
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