Permaculture and Pets

The Damnation of Angels - A Reapercy Novella (on Wattpad) http://my.w.tt/UiNb/StYnkA3aUD I had spent seven years in the most remote, war-torn regions of the world. Working, yes, trying to do some good. But the whole time I had been running away. And now he had finally found me. He was right, of course. It was my fault. I just hope you will not judge me too harshly for what I did.

what the fuck is this this gardening blog has been inactive (and so has their main) for several months and suddenly there’s an ad for overwatch fanfiction what kind of weird parody hellworld do we live in

I gotta be honest, I made a post (not even my content ffs) and it blew up to the tune of 200000 notes and it kinda killed it for me! I'm sorry all my darlings, I want to see all your gardens and I want you to plant and eat and learn and teach. I'm sorry all I'm sharing these days is my other stuff, but I love you all

My small tribute to my favourite kiwi band, Beastwars. Listen to the original here 

(All vocals, instruments and programming by myself and VΛSƨΛƦ)

nasturtiums

cute little bee alighting from nasturtium flower

nasturtium flowers

Just glasshouse things

Creeping thyme cascading over the brick walls in the glasshouse

Can anyone hook me up with a plant ID on this guy? It’s sort of growing by itself in the back garden and it has odd bluish, feathery leaves and no discernible smell. There appears to two different varieties where the new growth is either pale green or purple.  I live in New Zealand, dry mild temperate climate. Cheers!!!

My star magnolia (Magnolia stellata) is covered in these lumps, and google has led me to believe they are seed pods!

Wowee!!

My dog has the most ridiculous back end

Ten points to whomever can tell me what is wrong with these recently-taken photos of apple blossom…

Spring garden, doing its thing. Tomatoes are in and their dwarf bean and marigold companions are germinating. Florence fennel, garlic and leeks are fattening. The broad beans are flowering. Italian flat-leafed parsley and rainbow chard are desperately bolting to seed. Front garden is starting to look rather charming!

Aaaand two weeks later…

And now, after a productive and delicious summer, the brassicas are in and all tucked up for winter!

I always like walking through here

With the cold weather approaching I finally got my arse into gear, gave the front room a good clean, and moved all my frost-tender friends back inside for the winter.

Front garden; tidied, mulched, planted and ready for winter!

I have a new thing for our native New Zealand flax (Phormium spp.), known as Harakeke in Maori. At the moment I’m starting to think about the plantings we will have for the small piece of “formal garden” we’re going to have out the back once the deck is finished and the trellis is up. I’m going to do something completely different to the “country cottage” feel out the front and the wildy forest garden at the very back. Yep, it’s gonna be a horribly architectural modern Aotearoa grass garden. With that in mind, I bought a single specimen of this flax called, pleasingly, Darkdelight. I tipped it out, split it up and hey presto! Now I have thirteen! I will do the same with a couple of other varieties, because people have been breeding some amazing coloured ones. As well as the harakeke, I will plant a bunch of New Zealand Blueberry (Dianella nigra, unfortunately poisonous to humans but so super cute), some black bamboo that I will “appropriate” from my parents’ large patch, as well as purple asparagus I will probably grow from seed, because I can’t help slipping some edibles in there. I have to say I feel very virtuous planting natives, especially as my interest in them - aesthetically and ecologically - is something of a new development!