a house in the hills

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Post Christmas Catch Up

David gave me some mercury glass for Christmas to add to my collection...now I just have to find the room!

The Christmas table on Christmas Eve

Delphies and Hydrangea with a vintage wine bucket

Although we had homemade Christmas pudding for a hot lunch I made a Passionfruit and Strawberry Marshmallow Pavlova for the evening

We have had record breaking heatwaves and a terrible drought but somehow my rose garden keeps producing

Lots of wildlife in the garden...this darling in the gum tree outside my bedroom window

Too hot for the girls in their run ....so they like to huddle under the elm tree

I know the garden looks green but it was a sweltering 43 (115) this day

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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Merry Christmas to All my Bloggy Friends

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Friday, December 4, 2015

Gardenalia

We drove north to a farm sale selling rusty farm equipment....I do love placing old pieces in a country garden. We bought a huge old heavy wheel

and half an old plough

dusk

the garden is over run with rainbow lorikeets

we have netted the nectarine and apricot trees having lost all the cherries to the lorikeets

roses,foxgloves and delphiniums

the heatwaves have finished the spring roses so they have all been pruned and ready for summer blooms in about 3 weeks

late roses

Jubilee Cake with lemon icing

I piled spare baubles with starfish shells and lights in a huge vase

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