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September Recipe

Mandy — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:52:57 +0000

Lemon Yoghurt Cake

My lemon tree is still full of lemons, so I thought I would share this recipe with you. As the cake contains oil and yoghurt in place of solid fat is is very easy to mix. It is a great cake to make on the weekends with the kids.

A few Worm Truths

Mandy — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:02:41 +0000

It has been wet down here in Melbourne, I have been surfing the net and I thought I would share a few interesting things I discovered about our little garden friend – the worm. Some people say that when you cut a worm in half, you will have two worms. Sadly, this is not true. I thought I should share this information with you all, before you head out into the garden and make a terrible mistake with your shovel. This myth comes about from the fact that the dear little earthworm has 3 to 5 hearts, but the little worm needs all its hearts, and unless the cut is made close to the tail, a severed worm will die.

Experimenting

Mandy — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:27:58 +0000

I have been having heaps of fun over the last few months experimenting with cuttings. You don’t really need money to enjoy gardening. My cuttings have provided me with plants for free. Of course, visiting a nursery and buying plants there is fun too, but gardens do not have to be bought. They can be collected, with love and happiness, just as our mothers and their mothers did, way back in a chain that goes back thousands of years. In fact, even today, friendships are made through garden clubs and chats over fences where cuttings are exchanged. It is a great way to meet neighbours!

August Plant

Mandy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:12:34 +0000

Daphne [Thymelaeaceae]

Sweet Daphne

My gorgeously perfurmed and most treasured of shrubs for the winter the Daphne is covered in fragrant flowers at the moment. The perfume drifts across the yard while I hang out the washing and meets me late in the evening when I go outside to tuck the ducks up in their cosy pen.

The Heap

Mandy — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:31:12 +0000

This morning I headed out to the compost bin and gave it a bit of a stir with my trusty fork, then gave up on the fork and got stuck into it with a stake. It never fails to make me feel better, both I and the heap give off a good bit of steam.

August Jobs

Mandy — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:34:29 +0000

: Aquilegia (the sweet little Columbine)

There is much to do in August. For a beginning I need to get out and buy some Aquilegia seedlings. I just love these flowers and now is the time to plant them. They are very rewarding too as they seem to self seed in the garden, but, I need more in different colours! You can also plant out snapdragons, foxglove and larkspur if the mood takes you. Yes, folks, time to get ready for spring!

Some little pots I prepared earlier…

Mandy — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:53:11 +0000

Dpmt you just love tiny daffodils?

Remember that layer bulb pot I did way back in March? Well, the little gems have all popped up and are doing their very best to brighten up dull winter days with their cheerful little yellow flowers! Don’t you just love it when things work out? Bulbs can be like that. Plant and forget, then enjoy the surprise when they do their thing. Spring really is on its way!

The August Garden

Mandy — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:16:06 +0000

Primulas cheer you on a dull day

August means the primulas are flowering – and primulas grown by the front door mean good luck to all inside. Naughty, malicious fairies won’t go past a bed of primulas – they stay and play amongst them instead. That is the fairy lore, and whether you believe it or not you cannot argue that the blaze of colour that the primulas add to a garden on a dreary winter’s day will cheer anyone up.

Charlie & his friends

Mandy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:17:30 +0000

Charlie

I had some visitors today while I ate my lunch on the deck. Some Sulfur-crested Cockatoos dropped in. Charlie and his friends. They drop by from time to time, I think they find my antics in the garden quite amusing! They love to sit up in the Chestnut tree at this time of the year as they eat the new buds growing on the tree. I think they also like the vista they have from the tree while it has no leaves.

July Plant

Mandy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:14:02 +0000

The Meyer Lemon

Every garden large or small should have room for a lemon tree. What would we do without a lemon? Lemons are the hardist of all the citrus family and there are types to suit all areas and they are very good to grow in tubs! Large tubs of course! I love my little lemon tree. I have a Meyer lemon tree. The Meyer is an adaptable hybrid more tolerant of climate extremes and my little Meyer is full of lemons for me right now.