I guess I’m a plant addict, because I don’t seem to be able to stop adding new plants to my garden.    At least there’s still a little space left for them. The latest two are cyclamen, purchased from the Sunday Market, for no reason at all, except that I liked them.    But that’s enough, isn’t [...]

It seems I just can’t help myself when we go to Sunday Market – if I see a plant which really appeals, then I’ve just got to have it.   It’s only later I have to work out just where the poor plant is going to find space in my garden! This week’s find was a varigated [...]

Although I keep saying that I won’t add any more plants to my garden until Autumn, when they’ll at least have a chance of some rain, I still add them!   Guess I just love new plants. This time, I just added a few small annuals, snapdragons, pansies, and lobelia.   The poor lobelia certainly doesn’t seem [...]

It seems I just can’t help myself – this morning at the market, I just had to purchase another plant! This time, it was a pot of mixed calla lillies that caught my eye, and I thought they’d be ideal in an empty spot from which we’d moved the azaleas. There are mango and yellow [...]

Although it’s only Spring, the weather is mid-Summer, with almost every day for the past week over 30C, and not much relief in sight, let alone any rain. Even some of the hardiest plants, such as roses, are beginning to show signs of suffering, and we can’t give them enough water.   Not that we are [...]

Pittosporums are great plants for hiding fences, and even neighbours’ backyards. This weekend, we put in a Pittosporum tennuifolium, ‘Irene Patterson’, which will hopefully survive attacks by the chickens. You can see one in the background to the picture, waiting for its chance to take a bite. The hens tried to help dig the hole [...]

Recently we had a strange new plant in the front garden – it grew pretty quickly and looked quite good, so we left it there. This weekend, we finally identified it. Unfortunately, it was one of the most noxious weeds we have in Australia, Paterson’s Curse. You can find out more about this plant at [...]

Sometimes we want plants which aren’t suitable for our gardens, or even for our climates. I always wanted a date palm, and they are a little large for the garden I have. Recently, whilst walking around a local market, I discovered a stall selling dwarf date palms, which are only supplosed to get about 2 [...]