Inspired by nature
No, this is not a bouquet of flowers. It is actually the flower head from an onion. Nature is amazing. Inspiration?
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Colour Inspiration
Look at the lively purple of these African Violets.
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Look at this green of this Pandan plant. Rich.
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Not the biggest head of garlic, but a very fine specimen.
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Wisteria Lane
At home, we call the pathway on the Northern side of the house Wisteria Lane. Yes, the name was borrowed from the past TV series Desperate Housewives, but it is so befitting to what we have. We planted this Japanese Wisteria about 7 years ago and trained it to grow all along the path. It has grown […]
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…is now a cocoon. I found a black caterpillar munching away at a leaf on our lime tree. I left it there to do it’s business and a few weeks later I discovered that it had turned into a cocoon. I find it so fascinating how well it is camouflaged. It’s casing replicates the green […]
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All that withers…
…is Gold. Well, to gardeners anyway.
I made these two leaf mould bins from some plastic trellis and garden ties. I then filled them with the leaves from our trees and that of the tree on our nature strip.
For those of you who don’t know what leaf mould is, it’s just fallen leaves from deciduous plants that are stacked or packed in an open bin or bags and left to rot for a year or two. You add water to aid in the decomposition process. Unlike compost that is a product of bacterial activity, leaf mould is primarily fungal.
After one year you get a nice crumbly mix suitable for use all over the garden as a mulch and a soil improver.
After two years you get a rich dark mix which bears no resemblance to it’s original composition at all. This can be used as mulch or a soil improver as well as for a seed sowing and potting mix.
Apart from these two bins, I have 4 garbage bags which are packed full of leaves. When I say packed, I really mean packed and compressed so that these bags weigh about 6 kilograms each.
Think of Autumn leaves less as a nuisance but rather an organic and natural way to recycle what is given to you for free.
Another man’s trash…
… is truly another man’s treasure. I got this basket from someone’s hard rubbish collection pile along the nature strip last night. It looks like it was a clothes basket in it’s previous life. I inspected it as best I could in the dark and it seemed very solid to me, bar the two handles […]
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