A Walk around Daisy Mountain - Part 1

Here are a few more shots around the garden - this is the house yard only.  Tomorrow I will take some shots around the rest of the acreage.

This is the entertainment area - with the fire pit a sink and plenty of room for us and our guests

This shot was taken at 6am - so it is shady but it will be the site of  one of the vegetable gardens - will get a close up of those fruit trees tomorrow not sure what they are some kind of  guava or fig maybe.

This is the bed on the other side of the wall from the vege garden - I am planning on filling this with flowers and herbs - my very own pottager bed.

The verandah along the front of the house 

This used to be the chicken run and will be again - but we need to add some wire over the top - we have crows who think they own the place.

This is looking from the chicken pen back towards the pool, back verandah and the entertainment area.

Until next time

Angela

Back to a garden

Loving having these gorgeous geraniums outside the dining room door. 

My first Project......

This is the bank below the tennis court it forms a "wall" across the back lawn area behind the pool.

This needs to be weeded and the juvenile gum trees gotten rid of ( trust me we have HEAPS of others) and then I need to plant it out.

To stabilize the bank I was initially thinking nasturtiums ( because I love the look of them en masse) and pumpkin vines - then when they fruit dig them in and plant some kind of prostrate but hardy and drought tolerant ground cover.

If the soil was better I would plant it out with masses and masses  of daisies - but it is that horrible Brisbane Schist.

I know someone has tackled something like this before - so your suggestions very welcome.

Until next time

Angela

Back to Daisy Mountain

We are back on Daisy Mountain !! And we couldn't be more thrilled.

Over the last three years we have enjoyed the convenience of living in suburbia  - 800m to the shopping centre, coffee shops and train.

There has been a part of me that has been very unsettled over the last few years - nothing specific but the first morning waking up exhausted in our new home looking out at the trees I realised what it was - I missed the land - the trees - the light - the birds.  How do you live three years without those things and only realise when you get them back that they are part of your soul and make you calm??

That crazy balance I was always looking for  isn't in convenience, time management , lists and scheduling - it is in living where you feel whole and connected to your family.  Busy-ness isn't a lack of balance - its just life.

Seeing the change in my children over the last week has made me realise it wasn't just me that missed the space and birds and the peace. ( although they manage to fill the peace with kid noise !)  They are no longer bedroom dwellers they are out at the fire pit with us, or on the tennis court or just hanging out in the lounge room talking.

Once again you can follow our journey - as we build new gardens, a new resilience and enjoy our Daisy Mountain.

Until next time

Angela

Oops missed a few days....

This one is perfect for today .....

Maybe .... "Yes mum of course we have a tree !"

Day two Christmas Tree

I call this one - "high five for Christmas "

Christmas Fun.......Day 1

A few months ago (AUGUST)  I walked into a unit I was assessing and saw this......

It got me thinking there must be a lot of alternative Christmas trees around - so I have collected 26 of them for you.

I call this one "what came first - the idea or the empties?" feel free to add your name suggestions to each post.

Happy Crazy Season

Angela