Category Archives: gardening

Blue metal watering can

Hope this finds you well Dearhearts, This is my new blue metal watering can. I adore it! Doesn’t it look wonderful there with little droplets on the shiny blueness and silverness? I was going to write a long and philosophical … Continue reading

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4 Reasons why getting apricots pecked over by feathered scoundrels could be a learning experience

Hello Dear folks, My Facebook Status this week: “Survivor, Backyard Apricot Tree” Outwit, Outplay, Outlast. Rainbow Lorikeets 50, Me Zero. I’ll bet your birdy stomachs will ache – all the fruit you have pecked to shreds is green, green, green. … Continue reading

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Writing, gardening, berry-ing, art planning

Dear blog siblings, Rebecca Leigh, the wonderful copywriter who wrote the text for my (Tangerine Meg Art Card shop) site has included my “pleased customer” comments on her updated site. I am chuffed! Gardening update Broccoli seedlings: happily settled in, … Continue reading

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2008 – what a good number

Hello fellow breathers of air! This site has had 2008 hits as of right now. Thanks heaps for visiting and reading this. I have been eating a lot of pistachio nuts lately, Mmm! I decided that binning (to landfill) wasn’t … Continue reading

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Seedlings, seeds general gardening news and Tricicle 20

A warm welcome today, blog-friends, I will plant later when it’s cooler outside, but am excited just to have in the house (purchased from our local Farmers Market) some new dear little vegetable seedlings. I will list them, as they … Continue reading

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New fruit trees better than a puppy!

Hello dear readers, I am chuffed to report that yesterday another pair of fruit trees (not pears) was planted in my garden. The spot had been enriched with bokashi compost 2 and 6 weeks ago. The trees are a medium-late … Continue reading

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