This area is rather biggish and some plants disappeared after the wild weather this year, but many will reappear, I’m sure they did so in the past. I named everything what’s there but the Maianthemum racemostum should come back as several species of Solomon’s seal. Around the letterbox: There is a grafted walnut tree “placentia” … Read more
I finished this bed two weeks ago and it looks pretty bare. It will look worse over winter because most plants go dormant. But the elderberry sambucus nigra in the middle grows incredibly fast. I am not 100% sure here it might also be an elderflower. There are also two new hydrangeas extra selected for … Read more
The small bed by the clothesline an eclectic mixture: pictured is the perennial kale ‘Homesteader’s Kaleidoscopic Perennial’ Kale Grex, bred by plant breeder Chris Homanics and offered by the experimental farm network. The plants which came up for me are pretty uniform though. There are some primula veris, the true primrose early spring flowers and … Read more
There is a sour cherry with the rare herb lungwort, pulmonaria officinalis spreading underneath. My ashitaba, angelica keiskei koidzumi did not like the cool summer and since it’s biennial I really hope to find some seedlings next spring. It is another rare plant and a super food par excellence. Right beside it there are some holly … Read more
This is the hilled bed right beside the terrace. There are a variety of conditions: sun, shade moist and dry. The trees are: pommegranates “rosavaya” and “wonderful”, very pretty but in the wrong climate, two feijoas (no cultivar) which bear well in Katoomba and are not affected by the dreaded fruit fly. There is a … Read more
As you probably know, we decided to move closer to our warm climate gardens by the sea. I am going through the garden, weeding, naming and taking an inventory. I try to go through old notes for the fruit tree varieties, but I was not as meticulous as with the herbs, to say at least. … Read more
The few figs the birds left on the tree won’t ripen anymore. So I thought maybe I could use unripe figs somehow because you can use unripe tomatoes or mangos so why not figs? Here it comes: green fig jam and green means unripe! You will need: figs, sugar and spices (I used ginger and … Read more
Our new stall is nearly finished (Don’t look at the picture it is several days old..)! Once the rain stops and I actually get some plants in the stall you definitively have to have a look. It is the old stall from Sally’s shop combined with pallet wood. Because the winter seems to remain mild, … Read more
There is more than just one holy basil!
