A long time over due, I know! Now that winter has gone, we
can come out of hibernation. Just for the sheer love of it, I shall split this
post with some of the glorious plants we have in our garden. I find peace in my garden and thoroughly enjoy coming home.
The last few months have been ridiculous in so many ways.
Why you may ask?
Using Facebook I found a dear teaching friend of mine from
my first school placement. Assunta Mancini, a true lady, a beautiful woman and
a teacher who teaches from her heart. It was so much fun sharing life with
Assunta and reminiscing over the children we taught. I was deeply moved when
she shared that, her husband Glenn, had passed away. This news was a total
shock considering a beautiful man is no longer able to love his wife and
children and enjoy the joyous thing we call LIVING. Assunta floored me with
that news, as like many of the good ones, Glenn was taken way too early. I am
glad she is back in my life and look forward to sharing the future with her. I cannot tell you how often Assunta comes to mind during my every day but I the fact that she is in my thoughts.
For the duration of this term I have been plagued with
stupid sickness, but after what others are encountering, I have nothing to
complain about. Gastro, middle ear infection, 8 weeks of deafness in my left
ear and influenza – I am thrilled that winter is no longer here. It is hard to
feel miserable when the sun is shining, the birds are singing and the garden
embraces the seasonal change.
We have been working flat out every weekend to get our
garden in shape. I cannot tell you how much pride I get when I see our once
plain block taking shape. Our recent efforts have seen the creation of a small
deck and seating area behind our pool and the planting of many bromeliads.
We have placed a fence around the outside of the pool area
creating a dog run as well. Time was spent staining this so as to preserve the
fence and to provide our lovely neighbours with a better vista.
Once we stain
the inside of the fence we will be able to complete the planting in the pool
yard and we can plant an agapanthus row along the front fence line.
We have decided to move the vegetables gardens as we
realised we had planted them in the incorrect spot. Wasn’t that fun moving raised
beds????? Never again! Now that they have a new home we were able to stone
around them. Hopefully the next post will see the inclusion of another
agapanthus row in front of the beds to create a nicer edge between the lawn and
the stones.
As I end this post I promise that coming soon will be many
posts that you will enjoy. I have convinced my mother to part with her sacred
recipes…….I shall be posting them in order to have them forever.
omg Stuart, it looks totally amazing,wow, im blown away with how much u guys have achieved over the last few months.cant wait to see it all with the open garden. hey the lily photo between the orange gazania & the pink brom, that is so stunning,cant believe u have a hippeastrum 'papilo',do u have a spare bulb, im willing to pay for it.cheers buddy & a job so well done.p.s. luv ya blog.xoxo
ReplyDeleteHey there, I will not be sure if I have it still. Some one, me, accidentally split it in half with the shovel. I will soon find out. My mother has them growing, I could probably get more. She is driving up in September, happy to see if she still has them
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