Bromeliad In Flower This summer, as every year, the bromeliad which spends winter in the bathroom was put outside for the warmer weather. It isn’t particularly fond of direct sunlight, however, so where it is placed is important.   Bromeliads also like to have their centres filled with water, but aren’t too happy to have wet [...]

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 [...]

A new start in the garden is a good idea on New Year’s Day, and since the chickens were killed a short time ago, it’s time to change the look of the garden.   It’s certainly been a lot tidier since their demise, although I’d rather have the mess. Since we no longer need to have [...]