http://kathies-garden.com about my gardening experiences in Melbourne, Australia Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:45:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now we're settling at Selby we're starting to see a range of birdlife and some animal life here.  I've planted a lot of new roses and relocated two older ones from our old home. In the first week we lived here I saw a bird I'd not seen before. The previous ... http://kathies-garden.com/2010/01/18/new-delights-in-the-garden/ Since my last post we have shifted to the country and now live on a 2 acre property. It has gardens but we'll be adding to them and changing them over time. It already had a few roses and I've put in several more since. This particular one, the Perfume Delight, ... http://kathies-garden.com/2010/01/03/perfume-delight/ My husband and I are shifting to the foot of the Dandenongs at the end of October and it's made me look at what's happening in that area. This past year my passion for photography has been renewed and I'm always looking for photo opportunities so imagine my delight to discovered ... http://kathies-garden.com/2009/10/12/dandenong-gardens-festival/ My husband and I are selling our home and shifting to a 2 acre property in the hills.  So these photos may well be the last from our current garden.  This is our front yard. http://kathies-garden.com/2009/09/30/goodbye-to-the-old/ Our garden has had some clearing in the backyard - it was getting overgrown. Graham and I like it like that - natural looking but we're planning on putting this house up for sale and moving to the country so others might not quite like it like that. The front yard ... http://kathies-garden.com/2009/07/29/update/ My posts here have been lacking.  Last year was not an easy year for us and with the drought and recent high temperatures and bushfires in our state, my garden isn't much to write about at the moment.  I do work hard to keep green as a featured colour :-) ... http://kathies-garden.com/2009/02/18/time-away/ 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/