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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, while browsing around the hardware store plant section, we came across an Acmena smithii, otherwise known as a lillipilli. This is an Australian native plant, with edible berries. This is a plant we’ve been looking for over the past couple of months, so we picked out a good strong looking young one, and took [...]