Six on Saturday – Winter Wonders 3🌸 6🌸 23

It’s the second day of winter here and ironically is such a lovely warm 19 degree sunny day, I’ve decided to spend a lot of it in the garden and not on the computer! The cats wanted to spend the whole day outside, a sure sign of a quality sunny day! The next day it…

Six on Saturday – Ruby Trees 27🌸5🌸23

It has been unusually still for us this autumn and unusually cold, so the autumn foliage did not get blown or burnt off like it usually does! So we have had a sustained period of autumn colours, which for us in my garden, is an unusual treat. A delight that people get more in the…

Six on Saturday – Going Potty! 20🌸5🌸23

For the last few weeks I have been slowly reinstating and re- planting and creating new bulb pots for my spring bulb display. I didn’t have a dedicated bulb display last year and my spring bulbs were rather disparate in pots in different places. So with firm resolve, I decided to reinstate my big spring…

Six on Saturday – An Oath By a Tap and Autumn Favourites. 13🌸5🌸23

Another mild and lovely week here, with some decidedly cool mornings that necessitated a heater, socks, and jumpers to be used, almost frosty! But fantabulous gardening weather! I have been still busy transplanting my little rooted plants, plus making a border around the back garden of pot marigolds. I enjoy the watering in the new…

Six on Saturday – Rooting About in my Garden! 6🌸5🌸23

Another week of gently mild weather, great weather to get busy with plant production and planting. I have been busily harvesting the plants that I have put in as cuttings in my plant production area, that have rooted. These little ‘rootlings’ I rather optimistically plant in my garden in the chosen spot, and hope that…

Six on Saturday – Victor Harbor and Indian Summer Days 29🌸4🌸23

This week we had a stay in the picturesque South Australian beach-side town of Victor Harbor. A much loved town, is also a place where many people had honeymoons in early days, including my grandparents. It is spelled ‘harbor’ rather than the normal ‘harbour’ because of a spelling mistake by one of the early officials,…

Six on Saturday – Second Spring 22🌸4🌸23

We have had a gently warm week and quite excellent gardening weather, you can comfortably garden in all day. I have a couple of gardening sessions in the morning and the evenings. I have been busily beavering away in the garden, planting cutting grown perennials and shrubs like lavender and rock roses. Then taking more…

Six on Saturday – Back to the Future 15🌸4🌸23

My Front Garden Re-imagined I came across a lovely photo of my garden I took over a decade ago on a poster I made for Facebook which came up on Facebook memories. I was surprised how pretty it all looked. I am now in the process of replanting lots of the dead plants in the…

Six on Saturday – Sensational Salvias 8🌸4🌸23

Happy Easter Everyone!🌸 I have lots of varieties of salvias in my garden.I am a bit of a salvia collector. They seem to do well in our climate and live for many years. They can easily be divided as the perennial clumps steadily increase every year. They flower nicely in spring but in autumn here…

Six on Saturday -Water Means Life 1/4/23

Water means life or sometimes death to those plants genetically not used to it, see more about that below! It has been a cooler week where the colour has stated to return to my garden bit by bit. I have filled up the front verandah hanging baskets with hardy ivy leafed pelargonium cuttings and felicias…

Six on Saturday – Autumn Glory 25-3-23

It has been a gently warm week with some rather cool nights that necessitated a cardigan to be worn! We are still harvesting lots of cucumbers, tomatoes and herbs. The apple harvest has started with some cute little Johnathan apples being harvested from our tree, the tree is double graft and also is covered in…

Six on Saturday – Bathed in the Light 18-3-23

Both my garden and my life has been bathed in the light of positivity and sunlight this week. The summer’s last weeks and cool nights have been comfortable and enjoyable and weather-wise. The garden is showing signs of getting out of its high summer dormancy. So things are looking up. I have started my autumn…