Flowers, Gardens and more around Flemington and beyond
Much has happened since I started the draft of this post 3 years ago. For starters, two Melbourne Garden Shows have taken place and I think I will simply dedicate this post to those...
Category: Melbourne
Working Bee planned for Sunday 26 August
Unlike today (in Melbourne – cold rain and a maximum of 8° Celcius – this day is expected to be a warm 18 degrees with 1% chance of rain. Additionally after consulting the lunar...
Harvesting in the rain
Last weekend provided a reminder that it is in fact winter with a combination of wind, rain and low temperatures that laid waste to our plans of holding a working bee. Not to be...
Winter might be approaching, but…here is a gardening story including our first #gardeners walk
Taking a (celery) leaf out of Kevin’s book, I took the base of a celery purchased from our local supermarket, placed three toothpicks in the bottom of the stump to create a tripod and...
Another working bee
Davis St Community Garden successfully completed another working bee with new vegetables planted and some plants harvested and further beds cleaned and watered. Although there was much talking while the watering took place it...
I can name all the trees in my park
Actually only the park opposite our house in Melbourne… thanks to a very cool online application map that allows me to zoom in on our street then progressively click on the trees to find...
How our garden has grown
Back in Melbourne for 2 months. It is hard to think that we are three quarters of our way through the first year of living our shared dream of Joe attending Melbourne High. A...
Harvest Time – The second harvest
Well I have been back up in Darwin for almost a month now which means I haven’t seen how our small garden plot in Kensington is going. What I have seen though is that...
From commentator to cultivator
I look down on the garden that has popped up at the end of our very short street and now view it with a new found sense of urgency. With a plot offered and gratefully...
Popup Gardens and Cinemas in Kensington Melbourne
Autumn is well and truly upon us and despite defying the norm and turning up for a Collins St Naplan Online workshop in traditional Hawaiian shirt I fear it might be my last journey...