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Many of you would know that my husband and I shifted to the Dandenong Ranges nearly 4 years ago. From suburbia to a hills community and a 2 acre property. Bliss! Yes, it’s more work looking after a larger property but the gardens were quite well established and nothing had to be done to the…
Anyone who knows me personally knows that when I’m enthused about something I tend to put my all into it and get excited about my latest project. And so this one is no different. I was watching Gardening Australia on Ch2 last Saturday night and one of the segments was about a lady who is…
In the photography forums we talk about getting BIF images – Birds in Flight. It’s a challenge to all those who enjoy ‘birding’ (bird photography) and I certainly fit into that category. It is one of the most challenging but satisfying goals I know. Below are recent images taken at Birdsland Reserve over the past…
I’d be most remiss if I didn’t mention the sculptures there on display. There are quite a few, plus other ornaments. It really does add to the gardens.
Looking at more of what is on display at the Cloudehill Gardens currently. There are two beautiful Japanese weeping maples and these were apparently planted in the 1920s. So they are of quite an age! This is one of them. And here are a couple more images from there.
It might be winter but there are still interesting things to see on display in the gardens. I never found out what these are: This is holly. I’m told that it’s a weed or pest in this area but I’d not seen it before and thought it looked lovely. It’s something often seen on Christmas…
Still on the same topic. I love the architecture and pathways in this place. It’s so beautifully done. It’s created on a 3.3ha property and used to be a flower farm we learnt while listening to the owner. I’d love to put pathways on some of our property and do ‘rooms’ of plants. In the…
I joined a group of photographers, through a meetup, to visit Cloudehill Nursery and Gardens on the weekend. There were around 40 of us in all, and we first listened to Jeremy, the owner of the gardens and then split up in different directions to take photos of the area. I always love visiting this…
Actually they were Superb Fairy-wrens (also known as Superior Fairy-wren). A whole family of them darting here and there, and enjoying the sunshine in the crisp cool air, a sunny winter’s morning. Dad was around in his bright blue plumage but I couldn’t get him and two juniors were turning the blue colour too. However,…
My husband and I had gone away for the weekend and, on returning home through Melbourne, it got me wondering if there was any one iconic cityscape image of Melbourne. I know there are individual images of Melbourne icons, like the Flinders Street Station, for example. But is there an iconic Melbourne cityscape image? I…
When I was visiting Lysterfield Lake just over a week ago, to view the sunset there, I got a surprise in seeing a Royal Spoonbill there on the shore. I had thought I’d seen one in the distance on the other side of the lake a couple of weeks before, but I couldn’t be sure….
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…