http://kathies-garden.com about my gardening experiences in Melbourne, Australia Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:59:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I rang my plant doctor - a friend who has a nurseryman background and who also gave me my Bonsai for my 50th the year before last. It's not looking well and I don't know what's wrong with it.  It's not been burnt from the sun as the leaves aren't turning ... http://kathies-garden.com/2008/04/19/my-bonsai-isnt-looking-well/ Such a pleasure to go to sleep at night hearing the rain falling heavily on the roof above. I woke up this morning and found our pond very full - the rain fall has helped, but so has the drainpipe we have running from our overflowing guttering around the roof as ... http://kathies-garden.com/2008/03/27/glorious-rain/ I couldn't resist photographing these when I saw them a couple of weeks ago in the garden - after some rare rain overnight. But I was too scared to pick them and use them in the kitchen - I don't know the difference between 'safe' mushrooms and unsafe ones. ... http://kathies-garden.com/2008/03/15/mushies-in-the-garden/ I don't understand why in Victoria we were told we could only water in the mornings from 6am to 8am?  I have 2 days a week alloted to me - one week day and one weekend.  To me it would make sense to water in the evenings - particularly in ... http://kathies-garden.com/2008/02/17/watering-restrictions-and-timing/ Our roses seem to be coming out in phases at the moment. I walk down the street and see gardens (on the same side of the road) that have bushes constantly in bloom but ours don't seem to do that. One of my favourite and most prolific rose bushes in our ... http://kathies-garden.com/2008/02/03/our-lovely-roses/ 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? :-) http://kathies-garden.com/2008/01/30/he/ 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 ... http://kathies-garden.com/2008/01/27/garden-growing/ 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 ... http://kathies-garden.com/2008/01/19/herbs-in-a-giant-teacup/ 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 ... http://kathies-garden.com/2008/01/08/report-on-vege-garden/ Readers of my family blog at Thomases.org will know that Graham and I went to Japan in August/September to visit our daughter Meredith who was teaching English over there. I loved looking at the gardens - both public and home - and was delighted to see they grew many ... http://kathies-garden.com/2007/12/03/a-japanese-theme/