Our first Autumn here in our home in Selby back in 2010 was a wonderful surprise. We just had no idea what it would be like. Our front fence is a mustard yellow and it blends beautifully with the Autumn colours. I was told, early in our time here, by a neighbour, that our home…
Category: Seasons
Autumn in the Hills
Recently I visited the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens. We really are spoiled for choice here with so much to visit and see. As the weather gets colder and wetter it’s often just tempting to stay inside our nice warm homes. But it really is worth the effort to get out and about, especially if it’s…
Visiting Cloudehill Gardens
My husband and I recently had a lovely drive through the hills and visited Cloudehill Gardens in Olinda, which is looking absolutely amazing right now due to the Autumn colours there. So many photos, I won’t share them all (over 150 of them) but it was hard choosing which ones to share here. If you’ve…
George Tindale Gardens at Spring
For those not in Victoria, or even Australia, you may not be aware of the tough restrictions we’ve had in the “Melbourne Metro” area regarding COVID19. There have been arguments as to whether the Dandenong Ranges and Shire of Yarra Ranges are metro or regional. But, many feel, it’s because there are a lot who…
Christmas Cards Available
As we don’t currently have the local markets running here in the hills, due to the pandemic lock down, I’m unable to share my products with you, other than via my website and my social media accounts. You may be interested to know that I have a limited supply of Dandenong Ranges Christmas Cards –…
Visiting Mawarra: An Edna Walling Garden
As you may have gathered in past posts, I am a keen gardener and for me, the mix of nature and gardens is just perfect. Last year I learnt about Edna Walling, who was a well known garden designer here in Australia during the 1920s-1940s but she was also a photographer and an author, writing…
National Rhododendron Gardens
I went with a group of photographers last weekend to the Rhododendron Gardens in Olinda, Vic. It was a wet day but it was beautiful there and we enjoyed the sights we saw. Here are some of them. A couple of the photographers I was visiting with enjoying one of the paths and scenery We…
Celebrating Autumn
It’s Autumn here in Australia and my favourite season. I love the colours of the trees as they change and there are lots of Autumn flowers. The weather has some occasional warmth and is cooler in the evenings and we’ve been getting rain! A good time to get back out in the garden, weed, plant,…
Winter flowers
With winter upon us, the garden was looking drab there for a bit. We had to clear up a lot of dead and wet leaves on the pathways and driveway, but now they’ve been cleared up, the garden is looking more defined, and as we’ve really begun looking at the garden again, we can see…
Last of the Autumn colours
Winter has set in here in Victoria, Australia, and we’re experiencing cold days and nights, and rain, with a bit of sunshine here and there. Our first week of June had the equivalent of the average month of June’s rain. So will be interesting to see what pans out for the rest of the month. …
Anzac Day
I was hoping to have photos of the Dawn Service but when my husband and I arrived, there was no way we could get anywhere near the front and we had to content ourselves with hearing what was being said and seeing the backs of heads, many rows ahead of us. So different to two…
Lorikeets in the Fig Tree
Our figs suddenly ripened a week ago. We were thinking they weren’t going to this year round. We’d had a long hot dry summer and we hadn’t watered the tree, or most of our garden, wanting to preserve our water as we live on tank water. We got some rain, wind and sun in the…