Last weekend, we finally had some real rain here in Melbourne.   Some parts of the city had tennis ball sized hailstones, and many cars were damaged beyond repair.   Luckily, my suburb just had very heavy rain, with thunder and lightening. Afterwards you could almost see the plants smiling happily as they soaked up the water.   [...]

Finally, I’ve managed to get at least one of my zucchini plants to fruit!   Still waiting on the pumpkin, and for some reason, they don’t do well in my garden.  Perhaps I don’t water enough; I don’t know, but I’ll keep trying, because I’m determined to succeed with them one day. Out of twelve zucchini [...]

Although we’ve had some rain in the last couple of months, we’ve also had some very hot weather, and while wandering around the garden, I discovered some very stressed plants. There is a very new acacia, which has lost about 50% of its leaves to sunburn, and now looks a little tattered.     Just about all [...]

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 [...]