My last update was March 2022*, and it’s now January 2025. Close enough to 3 years, and coincidentally, around how long I had been telling

I haven’t posted in ages again. Hard to find a handful of uninterrupted minutes outside of work hours. But here’s a collection of garden photos

Last summer I grew a bunch of popcorn corn, that once dried unfortunately had very low rates of popping. It looked very pretty though! But

I’ve been growing these purple peas with with pink flowers for a few years now. Tried them in the new greenhouse for the first time

I was reminded today, that I haven’t posted for a long time!

A beautiful pot cover arrived from @ellechimart yesterday! It features a woman feeding chooks au natural, but with instagrams politeness policies I’ve tried to show just the

Lately I’ve been trying to get photos of really small bees. Bumble bees and honey bees are easy to spot in my garden, but the

Garden harvest, and a few snaps from around the garden today.1) Destined for dinner; broccoli, shallot, chilli, garlic scapes, baby carrots, broad beans.2) A pretty

This veggie bed could be described as ‘party at the front, business at the back’ like the reverse mullet of gardens. Glad the veggies have

A few more garden pictures1) Bumblebee visiting a self-seeded poppy.2) Bumblebee visiting flowers from a wildflower seed mix3) Massive mushroom popped up in the garden4)

A few quick garden snaps;1) A bumblebee on the broadbean flowers2) A baby mantis3) Surprise iris (first year in this garden so still seeing what

I picked up a couple of clearance bin (aka root-bound, grey, and nearly dead) lavenders last autumn. Despite the internet telling me lavender wouldn’t do

Some more pictures from the snowy day yesterday.1 & 2) Soft fluffy snow falling. (Videos)3) Fairy sheltering from snow under a mushroom.4) The little asparagus

Spring snow, it’s looking very magical outside with the spring blossoms and the snow falling down. My citrus trees are all wrapped up warm and

Cherry blossoms at the Harmony Garden down the road, such a lovely sight on a nice spring day. (Meanwhile back in my own garden, just

Surprise snow day! A few snowy pictures from the garden. Last night the snow was falling in big clumpy flakes, my phone sadly wouldn’t video

Just a little snow from yesterday afternoon.

Bumblebee in flight, weather is warming up and some nice big ones have made an appearance.

First spring flower in my garden! As this garden is new to me, identifying what’s already here is high on the to do list. When

Bright sunny day here today, hard to believe how quickly the snow disappears. It’s still like magic to me! Here’s a few more snow pictures

One for the plant nerds, this brassica seedling has three cotyledons! I’ve never seen this before. Maybe I just haven’t looked closely enough often enough,

Finished! I finally filled my garden diary. 20/4/2016 – 8/11/2022. This diary has been great for remembering what I planted where, and keeping track of

First snow! 1) Garlics peeking through the snow2) Various radish and carrot seedlings buried in their pot.3) The lawn all snowy, and yes those are

Raised gardens are bolted together despite the layer of frost on them this morning (thanks dear husband!), next step of course is to fill them.

Working on the new garden. Starting the build of a couple of garden beds before spring. Just in approximate positions, not bolted together yet, but

Slowly chipping away at a few things in the garden. I have been slack at taking pictures, but here’s a few.1) New bed for garlic

A few pics from the garden lately;1&2) Bumble bee drinking from a purple flower3) Kahukōwhai (yellow admiral)4) Frozen birdbath in the first frost5&6) Snow on

Kahukōwhai (yellow admiral) and a monarch butterfly enjoying what I think is some kind of daphne.

The new garden, the new quiet rectangle. I’ve arrived! These can be the ‘before’ pics that I’ll look back on later. It’s a blank slate.

My little home in Titirangi has sold, and we are moving to the South Island. There are so many reasons behind the move, it’s something

A lot has been happening in ‘real life’ and I temporarily forgot I had a garden blog or any gardening related plans at all. That

The first blog post.  The first page in my garden diary is dated 20/04/2016.  It details the requirements of an imaginary future ‘quiet rectangle’; A