@hortypaul.bsky.social
Horticulturist - fancy name for a gardener! Growing food and beauty on just 573m2 in cool temperate southern Australia. SM cynic - not on Insta, Facebook, Twitter blah, blah, blah. Save our planet.... one garden at a time!
Our front yard - a mix of Australian species suited to a cool temperate climate and sandy soils. Eucalypts, Tea Trees (Leptospermum sp., Coastal Rosemary (Westringia sp.) Very different to posts from cold northern climes but I'm hoping your summer pics will warm my heart as we descend into Winter!
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In October last year our little house and garden received the Australian Institute of Horticulture Green Space Residential Design Award. Australian followers will know the hirsute gentleman with microphone as TV gardening celebrity, Costa. It was a great night!
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Path leading into the "Garden of Love" - the garden outside our bedroom window. Penstemons, Aquilegia, Lavender, Roses. I just take a stroll to the left when overburdened by the rantings of selfish, self-important, little white men.
31.01.2025 09:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I hope I'm wrong...
but, things are going to get nasty.
We all love gardens that are full of lots of different plants. We should all be able celebrate diversity in everything..... including people!
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Love and support from Oz.
Gardeners we have a problem! Our rampant pumpkin, "Anna Swartz".
Anna just won't be limited by the confines of the garden bed - no! She's now climbing on our bedroom roof.
My wife is concerned that she will awake wrapped in it's determined tendrils!
But, boy there are some lovely pumpkins to be had!
Yep, I have runners sweating their way past my back fence and I sometimes wonder if they'd "go the distance" with a solid eight hour gardening day! Just remember,
"The work of a gardeners hands will come back to them" .... in spades???
Thanks. Wow, What a great island, Gigi - was lucky enough to visit with RBG Sydney many years ago. I'm near Wilsons Prom so a lot colder than you, bit jealous of your temperate climate - are you still getting droughts?
14.01.2025 09:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Wow! I'm on what can be best described as "dirty sand" but, I think you win! (not that it's a competition).
13.01.2025 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just beautiful Diana - any orchid photos?
13.01.2025 09:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hello Gigi,
Where are such beauties growing?
Hello summer showers! To me, growing food and beauty is what it's all about - feeding the body and the soul. Espaliered pears on the left with Zinnias, Dahlias, and a terracotta coloured variety of "Black-Eyed Susan"
Our first pears (after a five year wait) are individually netted.
Hello bsky! For my first post I thought I'd go with our scarlet runner beans "down under" in our Australian summer. A perennial bean, also known as the seven year bean. Bountiful, tasty, beautiful - how could you want for more?👨🌾
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