This is NOT the vegetable garden of my youth where grand parents grew crops in regimented rows.
No. To me fruit and vegetables have their own beauty. When I mix them up a little with flowers, I have my own green prescription, a home-grown remedy for physical and mental health!

Time for something "outside the box" for all those bloomscrolling. A Western Australian beauty, the "desert rose" Diplolaena grandiflora - even great as a cut flower!
With what's been happening "down under" I really need cheering up, so what's flowering at yours?
#flowers #Australia #bloomscrolling

Even my beautiful country, Australia is not immune to the "New World (dis)order".
Love must triumph over hate.
Stay safe my gardening friends.
#australia #bondi #flowers

This part of our garden is known as, "The Garden of Surprises" - we randomly deadhead and drop seeds and bulbs wherever they land, being surprised by what sprouts forth - Dahlias, Russell Lupins and Larkspur.
Nature is the garden designer - me? the apprentice!
#flowers #australia #potager #summer

More early summer flowers - I just couldn't resist!
The vegetable garden is now awakening - on the menu from the garden tonight; spinach pie with basil and dill plus lettuce and potato salad followed by berry flummery with strawberries and youngberry sauce. Life's good!
#australia #potager #flowers

Hi all,
Haven't posted for, well....a while. Spring into Summer means I've just been sooo busy pottering about!
Photos; "Black Iris" as well as a vase of cut flowers and where they've all come from - our garden.
And the work of our hands will always come back to us!
#flowers #australia #potager

Gee....um....spring is approaching down under in Southern Australia! Geum "Tangerine" flowering in our garden.
This time of year always feels like "two steps forward, one step back" - enticed with warmer days, followed by a cold rebuttal!

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!

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!

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.

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!

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?👨‍🌾