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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