Author: Ian Lester, Australia

First for the year!!(pt 3)

I’ve mentioned before that we have a fairly small block (mostly  occupied by house), and here is a vista from the daffodil patch  looking north. If you look very closely, you can see my lone winter  daffodil through the leaves…

First for the year!!(pt 2)

> As I was saying… > My ‘real’ daffodil patch is still flowerless, as in this typical > fragment: > > Except, that is, for the lonely self-sown Gazania that’s popped up: > > > > 6 Judith Wright Street…

First for the year!!(pt 1)

> It’s mid-July, mid-winter, and a day or two ago, I saw a flash of > yellow in the morning gloom (bottom left) > > You can also see that this section of the garden is very much a work…

OK, they’re not daffodils

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA But then, here in Canberra it’s autumn, and the Colchicum byzantium and Sternbergia lutea beginning to flower are the first blooms in my newly planted rockery stage 1. There are daffodils in there too,…

Soil fumigants and microorganisms

Thanks, Bob. Not only have you solved a puzzle for me but you have helped me to demonstrate what a dill I am! We have a newly-built house and I know that the soil is either our wonderful heavy yellow…