How lucky we are to have the firies. A huge thank you to Mt French Fire Brigade: Bruce, Gary and Peter. Great job.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
Wild flowers in bloom!
It’s a suuuuuperb time of year on our little mountain. The Stylidiums (Stylidium graminifolium) are in flower and they are just beautiful! They look like hundreds of miniature, pale to hot pink butterflies suspended above the masses of brushy green shrubs. I just love them!
Speaking of superb…
- Our lawn patch number two is bristly and green! Hooray. Patch number three…. watch this space.
- And 70 of the 75 natives plants are in the ground… yewhhhhh!
- And the olive tree up near the pool which I thought I'd killed with fresh horse poo has burst to life with a flush of lovely new leaves and shoots!
Also, Sebastian started work on a totem pole today… I think it will be a work in progress. He had fun painting “off piste” and trying out some aboriginal art techniques (There’s nothing like cultural fusion!).
Stylidium graminifolium
A row of little lillypillies along the edge of lawn patch number 2.
Olivia's not dead!
A totem pole, a boy and his dog.
Let's get cracking!!!!
Took a trip a couple of days ago with Grammy and the little-uns to Paten Park Native Nursery in The Gap (Brissy) to purchase a heap of new plants for the garden.
Had a cracking day with the team. Purchased 75 plants (tube stock) for only 2 bucks each!!! Sebastian was very helpful at the nursery ferrying plants to our trolley. Petra was less helpful and found a Petra-sized mud puddle and plonked herself right down into it.
After we'd loaded the car with our haul, we headed off to the park for some Paul-Napthali-Slice and a run around. Sebastian invented the term "imbulator" to describe a piece of play equipment, a bit poly-pipe which he used for "imbulating" various sticks, rocks, leaves etc. (?!!!)
We now have the job of getting all our babies into the soil before they die/outgrow their tube pots. It's going to be a busy weekend... I've spent today (Benji's Friday off) digging out the garden beside the south facing verandah and adding gypsum and mushroom compost. Benj was the raking maniac (raking like he's never raked before) in preparation for the next patch of lawn to be seeded.
Also finished all the firebreak work. Just waiting for Bruce and the fireies to give the call!
Yes!!!! Things are happening.
Oh and we've started seeding patch number three of lawn.
Budi wielding the grass seed disperser.
Spin it little dude.
Taking a well deserved break.
Westringia (coastal rosemary) ... fourteen of them in a row (!) eventually they will form a hedge along along the south facing verandah (hopefully).
More natives... Austromyrtus dulcis (midyim berry), Phaleria clerodendron (scented Daphne) and a type of native voilet I think! Bad photo.
Lillypillies along the southern bank.
Had a cracking day with the team. Purchased 75 plants (tube stock) for only 2 bucks each!!! Sebastian was very helpful at the nursery ferrying plants to our trolley. Petra was less helpful and found a Petra-sized mud puddle and plonked herself right down into it.
After we'd loaded the car with our haul, we headed off to the park for some Paul-Napthali-Slice and a run around. Sebastian invented the term "imbulator" to describe a piece of play equipment, a bit poly-pipe which he used for "imbulating" various sticks, rocks, leaves etc. (?!!!)
We now have the job of getting all our babies into the soil before they die/outgrow their tube pots. It's going to be a busy weekend... I've spent today (Benji's Friday off) digging out the garden beside the south facing verandah and adding gypsum and mushroom compost. Benj was the raking maniac (raking like he's never raked before) in preparation for the next patch of lawn to be seeded.
Also finished all the firebreak work. Just waiting for Bruce and the fireies to give the call!
Yes!!!! Things are happening.
Oh and we've started seeding patch number three of lawn.
Budi wielding the grass seed disperser.
Spin it little dude.
Taking a well deserved break.
Westringia (coastal rosemary) ... fourteen of them in a row (!) eventually they will form a hedge along along the south facing verandah (hopefully).
More natives... Austromyrtus dulcis (midyim berry), Phaleria clerodendron (scented Daphne) and a type of native voilet I think! Bad photo.
Lillypillies along the southern bank.
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