"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." -- Gertrude Jekyll

We have PLUMS... only little yet, but I'm certain they'll be ripe for the picking by Christmas eve to add to our basket of stone-fruit  for Christmas Lunch! Mmmmmmmm!

Look at our Veggie Patch... it's growing so, big so quickly thanks to our chicken poo, compost heap and a little help from our friend... SeaSol x  :-)  We have flowers on our Zucchini and Tomato and the Strawberries just keep on keeping on!  I have my gooseberry bush now, and we added a passion fruit and a white grape vine to the rest of the patch the other day.  It's such a lovely thing to water and nurture the garden, I really feel so lucky to have one of my very own now. 

We have some cute little visitors in the Veggie garden as well... some days it's covered in little white butterflies, bees, and the tiniest little birds.  I have finally got the grass  growing between the step stones... we will have to mow soon!  The only other thing I want to add to my veggie patch is my beautiful rustic gate, and some house numbers to attach to the stepping stones for the girls... such little things, but there are soooooo many little things to do!  

This lantern was a present to myself on my birthday.  We have it hanging up in our gorgeous shady tree in the back yard.  Evie and I found it hanging up in a little tea house/nursery just 3 mins down the road from us... and I just needed to take it home.  I love the whimsical, almost Gothic look of it. I'm going to get just one more to hang in our orange tree, it's the perfect addition to our evening bbq's.

I have some little apples starting to grow on our tree in the back yard, and our semi-formal agapanthus boarder is about to flower, it makes me a little sad and happy at the same time- it's almost 12 months since dear Grandma went to heaven, and agapantus have always reminded me of her.  It's nice too, because agapanthus remind me of Queensland!  I LOVE that we have some huge palm trees in our gardens, it's almost like we bought a little bit of the Tropics with us ;)  The orange tree has just finished blossoming, and the hibiscus flowers are all out, and we're still getting lemons, (how lucky) which is lovely to add to our Friday arvo Corona's!

Cheers Dolls! x T.