| Author | Message | ||
     Roselady Advanced Member Username: Roselady Post Number: 349 Registered: 06-2005 Rating: N/A |
So glad you did all those Meryl, I took some of those yesterday and Im sure yours will be much better! I love your garden! Im too lazy, just put mine on picaso! Will be sorting them out into different types one day, there goes that one day badge again! Im out spraying every week at the moment, wish the mulch people would get back to us after a month of ringing! | ||
| Meryl Senior Member Username: Meryl Post Number: 868 Registered: 02-2004 Rating: N/A |
A bit of sun when I first arrived on Tuesday but today was damp and foggy again. But, hey, it's Spring... (and where are your spring pix, eh?)          | ||
| Meryl Senior Member Username: Meryl Post Number: 864 Registered: 02-2004 Rating: N/A |
Oh yes, and the possum.... Never be tempted to try Vicks Vaporub as a possum repellant. I tried smearing it all over the verandah railings. With Vicks, without Vicks, the rose consumption stayed constant. But with Vicks, there was possum poo everywhere...even blocking up the guttering above according to the man who cleans it. Licking it off their paws must give the possums a severe case of the sh***! | ||
| Meryl Senior Member Username: Meryl Post Number: 863 Registered: 02-2004 Rating: N/A |
Thanks, folks. It's a wild old garden, always weedy and untidy, and anything that can't live through a heatwave week without water dies, because there is usually no one there with the interest to do anything about it. Doesn't matter. I love it. | ||
| Scubamid Senior Member Username: Scubamid Post Number: 845 Registered: 10-2003  Rating: N/A |
Wow, wow, wow, Meryl. It is all so beautiful. Cheers Judy | ||
| Roseman Advanced Member Username: Roseman Post Number: 399 Registered: 05-2004  Rating: N/A |
meryl, fantastic pictures of your fantastic garden, but try as i might i could not see your possum. Has it left home? david.  | ||
| Roselady Advanced Member Username: Roselady Post Number: 348 Registered: 06-2005 Rating: N/A |
Wow Meryl, how lovely is your garden! Such lovely plants and colours with texture. Your snowball bush is way ahead of mine and my waratahs have been smaller this year! so looking forward to more pics Lynne | ||
| Meryl Senior Member Username: Meryl Post Number: 862 Registered: 02-2004 Rating: N/A |
Here are the species Iris that didn't make it into my first post  | ||
| Meryl Senior Member Username: Meryl Post Number: 861 Registered: 02-2004 Rating: N/A |
At this time of year my mountain garden is always off-topic; its roses are weeks away and not even the Wistaria is open. But I can't resist posting some rose-free pix of spring at the mountain cottage. NSW has just had the Labour Day long weekend, normally a time when the cottage is booked out (the cottage is used for holiday letting and provides me with income as well as the opportunity for cold-climate gardening). However this year my booking agent mucked up the bookings so I had the chance to stay there myself. It was cold (1.6C last night), windy, and, on and off, wet, but unmistakably spring. Got back this morning with these pix: Viburnam in front, then a species waratah just getting underway (the flowers will get much redder and double in size) and a purple lilac just about to open at top right  The driveway in  Shady Lady, one of the hybrid Waratahs (very small flowers at present)  Two kinds of species Iris running wild \image(iris,species} A Dicentra which lives under Rosa Christopher Marlowe  and Omphalodes. I know, I know, I post a picture of this every year but can't help myself. A sheet of this in bloom is such a piercing blue that it is breath-taking.  |
