A beautiful find in the garden

I was out in the front garden this afternoon when I spied something on one of the rose bushes.  I initially thought someone had somehow attached a brooch to the rose bush but on closer inspection I discovered it was a beautiful moth. When I looked closely at the moth I commented to my husband…

Some renovation required

I forgot to take a picture before I started taking off the old brushwood on this archway but now that I have, you can see where paint is required before I put on new brushwood.  When I painted originally the brushwood was attached to the wood so I could only paint up as far as…

A native orchid has just popped up

This is a native orchid that has appeared for the first time in our garden. The orchid is called The spotted hyacinth orchid. How fortunate to have that just appear in our garden. It hasn’t just popped up, I wrote this in May and forgot to post it.  The orchid is still there.

Our roses have produced beautifully since the bushfires.

We haven’t had good roses for the past couple of years but this year we have had beautiful blooms.  I think that the advice I received from my sister-in-law has also helped.  She advised me to use Black Marvel.

A new hedge was planted last year but the hot weather did its thing

At the very back of our property we decided to plant a lillipilli hedge as they are well known to be a fast growing hedging plant.  The plants we bought were of a reasonable size and they were doing really well until last summer’s scorching hot days when the hedge was damaged by the sun…

A bit of cheer from the garden.