spring garden...

Although the calendar marks the beginning of spring on the 1st of September

spring doesn't really arrive here at the creek until sometime in October...

protea 

clematis

acanthus and borage (and garden statuary)

 sweet pea

 floribunda rose

in the raised beds the winter vege are coming to an end and setting seed 

- and bare beds wait for spring seeds to emerge

rather than waiting for the ground to warm up 
this year I'm raising many seeds like tomato, eggplant, chilli and capsicum
in pots on the verandah

we have made a start on a BIG new garden project
(more about this as it emerges)

and an old favourite bursts into leaf...

acer negundo 'kelly's gold'
gives a vibrant lime blast to the early spring garden



"If you have a garden and a library, 
you have everything you need. "

  Cicero 

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garden time out...

Currently doing battle with the HDR exegesis (again)

and other assorted nemesis (still)

When it all gets a little too much

I wander in the garden....

ahhhhhh that's better

ONWARDS!!!!!

....

low...

I can feel myself entering yet another arty low 

(a recurring period I call 'de funk')

when this happens I spend even more time in my garden....

just looking at the blooming clematis makes me feel better

and watching little seeds push out of the soil gives me hope

and pulling out weeds makes my muscles ache in a good way

I don't like to think what I'd do without my garden and forest and creek (and family)

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