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The Garden at Possum Creek: June 2016
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The Garden at Possum Creek. Musings in a country garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Thursday, 30 June 2016. Colour Follies Continue in the Culinary Patch. Winter arrived with a cold blast and it's suddenly fiercely cold. The mercury - or some kind of solar cell - barely bothers to reach double figures these days; it's shocking after the unusually balmy autumn. It's June, terribly late, but I find more, yes more! A few tulips and Narcissus. Best of all, white Gladiolus.
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The Garden at Possum Creek: May 2016
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The Garden at Possum Creek. Musings in a country garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Tuesday, 31 May 2016. Last Day of Autumn. It's a sunny Melbourne day, cold, crisp, with (I think) our first frost on the lawn - the outdoor thermometer says it dropped to 2.7°C last night. (I don't check the rain gauge - my soil is always too wet or too dry; but the level of heat and cold - for some bizarre reason - fascinate me.). Or is it surprising? Add warmth to acidification, pes...
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The Garden at Possum Creek: July 2016
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The Garden at Possum Creek. Musings in a country garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Friday, 29 July 2016. We harvested the little Potimarron pumpkins back in autumn, of course; an old French variety. The biggest is barely 1.2kg, perfect for roasting, skin and all; just right for one meal. They grew amongst the Warrigal greens ( Tetragonia. An edible native groundcover that the hens love. And they don't need peeling! I think I've just found my favourite pumpkin. I'm h...
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The Garden at Possum Creek: November 2016
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The Garden at Possum Creek. Musings in a country garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Sunday, 20 November 2016. Wild Blue Sun Orchids in Spring. One of those many, many reasons that I love living in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne is the countless s. Pring wildflowers, and the blue sun orchids are maybe the pinnacle (along with other wild things like our rather-too-friendly marsupials). Thelymitra ixioides. Sunny (otherwise it self-pollinates). Jill Weatherhead ...
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The Garden at Possum Creek: January 2017
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The Garden at Possum Creek. Musings in a country garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Friday, 20 January 2017. Ambivalence is my middle name. Only 6 weeks ago I was calling for more deep yellow roses (and wondering why my (usually) glorious gold `Graham Thomas' (see post 2/12/16. There's a visiting honeyeater, landing on soft yellow Phygelius capensis. Snowflake', and sublime lemon lilies (descendants of the Golden-Ray Lilies of Japan ( Lilium auratum,. Employed by a B...
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The Garden at Possum Creek: What a Difference a Year Makes
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The Garden at Possum Creek. Musings in a country garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Saturday, 7 January 2017. What a Difference a Year Makes. Madeira Germander ( Teucrium betonicum. Alice Hindley' (with white Orlaya grandiflora. Last picture) at the front). A year ago I disliked having the Teucrium. A difference a year makes! What I need now are a couple of cranesbills (true Geranium. Like Geranium pratense striatum. Above) with silver foliage to plant at the base; e...
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The Garden at Possum Creek: October 2016
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The Garden at Possum Creek. Musings in a country garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Friday, 21 October 2016. The Generosity of Gardeners. The generosity of gardeners is a special thing. Sure, many plants grow and spread, a little can be divided off, but it's more than that, it's a sharing of something you love, 'here, have some, I want you to enjoy it too.'. It's such a shame. I visited a new garden-design-client this week who not only gave me a bunch of sweet smelli...
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The Garden at Possum Creek: Summer Solstice
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The Garden at Possum Creek. Musings in a country garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Tuesday, 20 December 2016. But this year has been very different; this. We've now had 2 years and 2 months of (mostly) wallaby-nibbling-free garden growing time (but who's counting? So I'm pretty darn pleased with my garden within its wallaby-proof fence. Or a display of how to torture annual plants? And tiny Cyclamen purpurescens. 5 February 2017 at 07:23. Giới đầu tư sục sôi tìm hiể...
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The Garden at Possum Creek: September 2016
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The Garden at Possum Creek. Musings in a country garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Thursday, 29 September 2016. I have gotten myself in a pickle. And J works in.conservation.). So why did Mum grow these? By a rough fence of wire (chicken wire? But with paling fences, neatness, and that relentless cutting down of gum trees and the like, why, oh why, do the Dandenong's continue to become ever more suburban? Gum trees just aren't neat - accept it! I admit I've got that...
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The Garden at Possum Creek: Wild Blue Sun Orchids in Spring
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The Garden at Possum Creek. Musings in a country garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Sunday, 20 November 2016. Wild Blue Sun Orchids in Spring. One of those many, many reasons that I love living in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne is the countless s. Pring wildflowers, and the blue sun orchids are maybe the pinnacle (along with other wild things like our rather-too-friendly marsupials). Thelymitra ixioides. Sunny (otherwise it self-pollinates). Jill Weatherhead ...