The Big Wilt has finally come. Every year when the frosts arrive, the summer plants die back and make way for the ones that can take the cold.
This year we waited a long time for the changeover. In some ways it was a vindication of my messy, lazy style of vegetable gardening, the one where I keep sticking in new things, but don’t pull out the old ones until after they’ve gone to seed and died. Continue reading
A late addition to the collection of trees we’ve been planting this year has been a group of trees that have just graduated from the Australian National University.
They’re now decorating the slopes of our box-gum woodland plantation with tasteful stainless steel pendants and copper necklaces identifying them.
The concept of the research (by Tricia Stewart, working with Justin Borevitz and Jason Bragg) is to look for guidance on choosing trees for landscape restoration.
Just the thing we’re working on. Continue reading
