Africanaussie

It was lovely to have my eldest daughter visiting for a couple of weeks, and she wanted to write a guest post - so here it is :) I was sitting drinking a lovely glass of wine, nibbling on salad fresh out of my mom’s garden and chatting when I noticed that the ground was alive.  This was rather disconcerting until I discovered that the movement was hundreds of “frogs” which my mother quickly corrected me were actually toads.  I was enthralled by the steady hop, hop, hop –somehow all in sync.  The remainder of the evening was spent happily watching the toads move, the sky darken and the flowers fall from the lychee tree. Here is a cute frog........... and here is an ugly toad... As her blog follower’s you may not know my mother’s gardening history. For years and years my mother wanted a garden. And every time she got one and built it up just like she wanted, life got in the way and took it away. I’m not a gardener, but I get plenty of garden based emails and such. It al...

For my birthday my older brother sent me this photo (and gave me permission to post it on my blog) .  It is a malachite kingfisher. Isnt that colouring just amazing?  He is a very talented photographer - maybe it will rub off on me some day..... I feel a bit responsible for his marvellous talent - I gave him his very first digital camera!

One thing that I am always trying to grow is gemsquash, and here they are, but in my brothers garden - not mine (yet). They are just as delicious as I remembered. we enjoyed the elephant garlic that is planted amongst the strawberries.  The strawberries are not quite ready yet. the butternut is almost ready these almonds are so easy to eat - they pop open when ready I can see some apple crumble in their future Even pommegranates!  Great job you are doing in your garden dear brother and I really enjoyed all the yummy food you cooked for me!

I am home again at last, but while I was away there was a cyclone just south of us and it dumped a  lot of rain and wind.  My garden is going to have to have some work done on it before it can face the camera again.  So in the meantime enjoy some photos of my moms garden..... I will have to research to see if I could grow some of these alstromeria.....I love how they look combined with the pink splash. Unfortunately my suitcase was not big enough to bring back some of these iron birds. every day there are breadcrumbs for the birds this one seems to be saying - "hello there Mr Dove".