(Post 959)
Categories: life-in-general
Date: 08 April 2010 01:47:03
so things keep plodding along. I'm on hols until next tuesday - hooray (we won't mention the root canal scheduled for Wednesday tho!) ... Mr tasmania is on his way back from the Piem*n River as I type. I've been pootling, just finishing bits and bobs and getting them out of the way, some of which have been on lists since early last year, some for even longer!
And we've been finishing things here too .. and managed to get down to Hobart for four days over Easter which was FABULOUS - lots of shopping and eating and relaxing and catching up and exploring bits of Tassie I haven't seen and even some opera (the observation place the top of Mt Wellingt*n has the BEST acoustics, I couldn't resist!)
so, here we go, an update in pics :)
paths are now finished around the house ... the lower paths here (black) will be covered by the deck 'one day' ... the white paths are now black and finished.
I planted three abutilon, or chinese balloon flowers, at the end of the plateau - white, orange, yellow - and Mr Tasmania's grass is coming on swimmingly!
Mr Tas boxed in the 'conifer garden' ... this is a major work in progress, will not go at great speed, but has commenced, so I'm happy.
I made a small temporary garden bed with bricks at the top of the front garden wall and filled it with sweet pea seeds - which I have noticed today have popped up! Now, if only the snails will leave them alone ...
A cool topiary of (I think) an emu in Oatlands, Tasmania ... gorgeous old town down near Hobart.
even more gorgeous ... two shots from a walled garden just off the main street of Oatlands - wonderful and very inspiring!
the espaliered apples from the same garden
and the dry stone walls - done by a local woman
echoes of our convict beginnings carved by chainsaw from old macrocarpa pines which were due to be taken down ... Campbell Town, Tasmania
And Mr Tasmania and a friend outside a new providore in Campbell Town, in a beautiful old building, loving the garden, and their amazing 3 olive and garlic dip - yummy!
