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A couple of weeks on and my plants are growing well in the giant tea cup. The strawberry plant has thrown out a feeler in search of more land. I wonder what would happen if I put another planter nearby?

I’ve not been that active here for a few months. The latter half of last year got incredibly busy. I’d written and published a book and had no idea how much of my time and focus the book would take. Been exciting and interesting but meant some of my blogs lost my attention for a period of time. So I’m back!

The Australia Day weekend (long weekend for those outside of Australia) has given me opportunity to catch up with my blogging, to potter in the garden, take some new photos and just relax.  The first 3 weeks of the year are usually quiet but that hasn’t been the case this year - good for work, not good for catching up on things!

You will see from a previous post ‘Filling Our Pond With Water Restrictions’ that we’d put in a pipe to feed our pond during rainfalls. This has been an excellent thing to set up. The drought is still with us and we’ve had long periods of dryspells but when the rain comes, it comes suddenly and fast and in a short time our pond is full again! I’m sure our poor fish, if they were capable of thinking, would be wondering what on earth is going on out here in the dry world. Anyway, thought you’d like to see how effective this has been for our pond!

I was at Bunnings last weekend to get some more plants for our front garden to fill up the empty spots and passed by this gorgeous giant tea cup.  I looked at it and thought ‘no, I’ll get it another time’ and went off with my shopping list. But I passed it again on the way to the cashier and thought if I didn’t get it now, there might not be anymore the next time I come. There were only a few there. I couldn’t resist it - we have a large glass outdoor table on the back patio that was looking very bare. But this giant tea cup which now has Mint, Parsley and Strawberries growing in it, looks right at home. What do you think?

Not a success story at all I’m afraid. Back of the garden, out of sight, out of mind. Readers will remember that it’s also by our rabbit cage but some days we wouldn’t feed them till late in the day when it was getting dark - too dark to work in the vege garden. And because of the hot weather and drought the veges have not done very well at all.

However, I’ve found another spot in our garden much closer to the back door. I have a Bonsai that was given to me for my 50th last year and I’m nursing a treefern we almost lost due to lack of water. I take our watering can out there every day after filling it from the buckets we keep permanently in our bathrooms.

So, once the weather is cooler I’ll clear out the space by our back patio and prepare it for vegetables, hopefully with more success this time.