I was just looking back on all the pretty pictures I've taken over spring, summer & autumn that just passed & it made me really smile.
I have been staring out at a dormant balcony for a month or two now & how quickly I've forgotten how pretty everything once was & not so long ago! So I thought I'd just post a couple of photos from the seasons gone by to lift my winter spirits, & hopefully yours.
A bit over a month until spring! YIPPEE!
Thanks for reading,
Bel
Winter. I do not like you. You are cold & boring & cold. I realise you are necessary in the grand scheme of things but you are cold & boring.
So, this time of year does not inspire me to garden. Yesterday morning there was sun, it was freezing, but the sun was shinning, so me & little helper watered the pot plants. It's not the first time I've watered them all winter by the way, It's just the first time I felt like taking pretty pictures.
Everything is either dormant or recently pruned.
Sango Kaku is just a bunch or red twigs. It's quite beautiful really.
My tulip or daffodil bulbs have sprouted! I actually can't remember what is where but I like a flower surprise.
When I planted them
Can't wait to see them!
A little ray of sunshine, on a cloudy day.
I pruned my fuchsia's back quite a bit, so here's some new growth.
Bel
As I mentioned in a previous post, I found bags of decorative stone on special for $2 each at bunnings a few weeks ago & basically bought them all over the weeks. I really like the pretty stones.
We all went to check out the new Masters in Preston the other day & it was pretty impressive. The best part was finding a 5kg bag of white stones for $5! Much cheaper than bunnings & they didn't have white. I really wanted white stones for my inaba shidare Japanese maple but had to settle for grey. Well, now I had a cheap bag of pretty white stones, I got to have white after all.
The title of this post is "Stone Crazy" so here are all the other stones & coloured sands I picked up.
I put some bright red sand in my fuschia & on top of my daffodil bulbs. I quite like how striking it is.
On my other balcony I put river stones in my standard Rosemary's pot & White stones around my thyme.
Before
After
Finally put the rest of my white stones over my tulip bulbs & some bright pink sand in my fuschia basket & my little fuschia in the small terracotta pot plus some green stones in with my standard fuschia.
See, stone crazy!
Really disliking winter. Come one Spring!!!!
Stay warm readers,
Bel
