~~~~ Lavender ~~~~
Yesterday was lavender harvest festival day here at Frog Pond Farm. Well, to be honest it was more harvest than festival!
In fact I'm not even sure that it's meant to be harvest time! But anyway that's what happened here.
A good result from those tiny little seedlings planted back in August last year.
Oh my goodness, look how green it was back then!
You have to look very closely to see the seedlings. They are either side of the beds lining the pathway.
~~~~~ THINKING ~~~~~~
I was born in the Year of the Snake.
I have to think about things before acting.
I have to consider all possibilities..
I have to contemplate.
We've had months of thinking.
Months of mulling . Months of eyeballing. Months of trying different options.
A crab apple walk, a lavender walk, a gate at the end, a seat at the end, move the seat and the archway and on and on it went...
For some reason we seemed to think that we needed a focal point looking out from the garden room.
Not so, we decided.
We have finally settled on this.
Drawing to scale was not a priority!
( Mmm..... on second thoughts I probably should've asked Bill to draw it!)
There is no focal point.
It couldn't be more simple really.
No wonder everything else just didn't seem quite right. I must have kept thinking about the big picture. The need to keep the whole rose garden as one.
They are quite big beds but will easily be filled with cuttings and clumps of what we already have.....repeat plantings to make it cohesive.
As a result, Bill has been out there measuring......no eyeballing this time.
Not so for this original sight line. Must have been me who did this lot.....eye balling!
So we'll fix those too.
We will fill the beds with as much compost/mulch etc that we can gather and let it sit through Winter.
It seems such a pity after going to the trouble of grassing two biggish spots there.
~~~~~ Tough Trees ~~~~~
Our chinese pistachio trees are looking gorgeous.
They are the toughest of small trees and produce the most exquisite colour in Autumn.
~~~~~ Climbing iceberg ~~~~~
Climbing iceberg looks so fresh and healthy at the moment. Another resilient performer under very dry conditions and without a drop of additional water.
Definitely worth it's place on our pergola.
~~~~~ Pink Belladonna Lilies ~~~~~
Massive clump of pink belladonna lilies.
Originally one bulb given to us many years ago.
Now over a hundred new bulbs. I'm reluctant to replant them though. They are a weed in some areas of Victoria although we haven't seen them anywhere else on our property.
~~~~~ Amy update ~~~~~
Amy's friend Heidi has been in Cambodia this week visiting her on Amy's week off.
She wanted to take Heidi to see Angkor Wat in the evening for the sunset viewing. Looks like they have arrived in plenty of time.
She also wanted to show Heidi her school.
They visited the local village and went to Savanna's house. Savanna is the Khmer teacher at Amy's school. She was cooking rice cakes and invited them into their home to try some with the family.
And just to make you smile, click on the link below to see a bit of chicken dancing practice for the New year celebrations.
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