My winter photo

 

Over the years my daughter Maya has taken pictures of me in my garden, usually in the middle of winter, starting in 2009, our first winter in this house. My husband had died the previous month, so the look on my face that year was a bit not me. But over the years things have improved, on my face and in the garden.

I did not realize that the winter photo had become a tradition until I looked back and saw that I had done it most years (except for 2012).  I have never made the photos public, because in them I am wearing my worst clothes, clothes which I very often wear in the garden.

2009

2010

2011

2013

2014

2015

2016

 

Purple garden, five years on

Sadly, this is one of those areas which was my pride and joy eight years ago, but has been overshadowed by the newer areas. This is all I can find from the blog over the years. My poor neglected purple garden!

The purple garden

Purple garden looking much more purple!

Irises. A hailstorm cut them to ribbons some days later!

The purple garden

Pink Garden…4 years on

This was made four years ago, and like the other areas of the garden, some things have thrived for a season then died. Some areas have progressed and others are a bit neglected.

The pink garden

Herb bed, five years on

Okay, so putting up the carport put my herb garden in rain shadow, so now it has less herbs and more tough plants. Never mind.

How the herb bed was from Aug 2009 until Dec 2011.

The herb bed after the carport was erected.

How it looks at themoment.

Finished at last.

By the carport

Yellow garden, five years on

In the beginning

The yellow garden, my place

Where the wall meets the yellow garden.

First spring flowers in the ‘yellow garden’

Irises in the yellow garden

Pigfaces are also much loved here. They come from south africa along with gazanias, diosmas, proteas etc.

Now

Yellow garden now

Yellow garden again

Yellow garden highlight

Beautiful blue plumbago

I love bulbs

By the tanks

The yellow garden

The pond, five years on

Gardener in a dry land – five years on

Five years since my first post! I got started on my garden in earnest in January 2011, and started blogging in May that same year. For four years, 2011-2014 I put in loads of hours getting the garden off the ground. I have been a bit off the boil the last year or two, since I started a creative writing course, but fortunately gardens happily grow without you.

My main complaint about this place is that things take forever to grow here, but these photos will prove that this is not true. They just seem to take forever.

 

 

hello readers

Please excuse the lack of blog posts lately. My writing course has taken all my spare writing energy.

But I have not been completely slack – I have been having fun with Instagram. I love how instant Instagram is, I can just snap and share, when I was taking weeks sometimes to get my photos on to the computer etc.

So feel free to watch the garden grow HERE

 

 

Morning cuppa

What is Patches doing over there?

It was a frosty one.

What happens when gardeners get together

Funny little thing happened when I invited Sharon around for a cuppa and cake the other day. I was having a discussion with myself about whether I should change into some better clothes, and decided that seeing as she’s seen me in my old clothes before, I wouldn’t worry about it. Well, she turns up in almost identical gear having decided that ‘Tarla loves me as I am’!