Did l say that l had fish? l bought three goldfish from the Pet Shop for my small pond....and they had babies...............so now l have lots of fish in BOTH my ponds..... One was meant to be a frog pond but that plan seems to have changed........We love the fish and many an evening was spent this month with a glass of wine, a chair and a packet of goldfish food feeding our fish!
They start off black and turn gold as they get older. And hopefully prettier!!!
A bit of rain in March gave us some very strange fungus growing in our flowerbeds!!
And have l mentioned how much we love our new doors!! A perfect place for a hot Summer afternoon!
And a superb invention! An old Go-cart frame that Geoff picked up at the Tip Shop (as you do?!) . It became the perfect carrying cart for a full roll of wire (that weighs a tonne)
No need to lift it at all! Clever Geoff!
Summer blazed on....
Thank goodness for big shade trees!
Out came the Japanese Anemones....
Lilli sparks up a bit in the sunshine.. She doesn't get out much in the car in Summer as it's generally too hot for her but on the odd occasion she can come with me she gets the rare treat in the driveway of chilling out of the window on my lap. She loves it!
l built a new path to nowhere...... Just around the corner in fact! Just because l think l like building things!
The paper daisies were stunning!
And very co ordinated with this incredible beetle!
Hints of Autumn arrived...........
And a friend and l had the privilege of going to visit a stunning garden on the outskirts of Hobart. Truly inspirational indeed!!!
All l need is a bigger garden..........mature Silver Birches....stone walls.....and.........lots of money...............!!
So fully inspired l came back to build a fence!!!!! Need l say I am NOT the most tidy builder!!! Geoff has a FIT whenever he sees me doing stuff like this! But l seem to be able to happily step over everything ,never trip up, know where everything is so what's the problem!!!!
So string lines out, spirit levels at the ready l built my fence!
Just a paling fence around one wall of my pond garden.
Half done.....
Hope the ducks don't mind their new view!!!
Then the other half and a coat of paint.....
Always with the vision of it looking like an OLD paling fence.....NEVER a brand NEW one!!
Done! l love it. Closes in the garden from a lot of the winds and makes it seem more cosy and secret!
With more gates and doorways..........
It changes the whole aspect of this part of the garden.
A far cry from the sheep paddock it used to be!
March hails the Forestry Burn Off season with several beautiful evenings marred by apocalyptic fires on our horizon.
And mornings are often spoilt by a stinking shroud of smoke in the air...Yuk.
Fog or smoke.........l can't remember!!!......
But moody and beautiful all the same!
