NOVEMBER WORKING BEE. 2011

        Unbelievably late. Five months to be precise. Click on the photos. See a slide show.

                                           Heather amongst the flowering Chinese mustard.

                                                                    Tanya and Ian.

                                                         Freddie keeping close to Ian.

                                           Ian.  Sitting down on the job, but looking happy.

              Carmen and Kate in the front pond, wondering when will it end?  all this weeding..?

                                                                    Christine.

 Henry Ford had nothing on this system.  All in a row working on the NCG sign...

                                                                     Nearly finished.

                                                                            Marijka

                                                                 Christine and Heather

                                                                 Blaise and Rebecca

                                                                           Chris

                                                     Down by the bottom pond.

                                                    Carmen wondering where to start.

Alistair searching for that elusive something. Must be somewhere in the deep. Chris philosphically looking on.

                                                    Down by the bottom pond.

                                                    Scrolled fence wire sculpture.

                                                           Comfrey flowering.                                  

                                                                      In the pink. Hollyhock.

                                                       And another unbelievable tea party.

And another birthday..I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll gently blow your house down..  It is a fairy story isn't ?

                                                            What a laugh. Fantastic.

                                                                     and a giggle..

                                                            Yoohoo anybody for tea?

                                                                  Well Done.

                                      Bees, bees, bees, bees, and more bees.  Fantastic.

                         Elizabeth tells us that's her behind that beautiful ENORMOUS cabbage.

                                                             Definitely to be shared.

                             Not sure what's happening behind there, but I'm going home.


Photography    Alistair..(Hello down there in Tasmania).
Published by Marijka

January Working Bee 2012

Note. Click on the first photo and you can see it much larger and a slide show as well..
 
How beautiful is this.. Ginger visiting from interstate, on top of the fig tree.

Dianne, Christine, Pauline working on the second half of the NCG mosaic sign. Rebecca making a salad.

Mixing the glue for the mosaics.

Heather, Ros,  Jess having discussions with weeds and planting out a couple of hopefuls.

 Ian battling with the three foot high kikyui grass
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Ian with a fancy headgear.

 Chris and Pauline.

 Rebecca and Chris.

Rebecca's finished salad.

The three musketeers, Pauline, Elizabeth,Christine, stayed till every letter was finished.  Well done.

Moon calender donated by Dianne.

Cosmos planted by Christine.

Kai. One day I too will be able to use the whipper snipper. Just practicing now .

Garden mascot.  Biggles.

In the garden wilderness.  Christine, Dianne, Pauline.

The talking blackboard.

Photography. Alistair. (great job)
Posted by marijka

Resources in our Library.

Some light Summer reading from our very own Tin 'cupbhoard' (genuine serendipitous typo) in our shed.

Since we now have our very own bee hive, thanks to Melbourne Rooftop Honey, this book is an absolute delight to read as it explains everything about the humble bee.  What an amazing little insect. Written by someone who as well as being a beekeper and a seller of bee products, obviously loves her bees. 


Some very interesting health products bees produce.  Hayfever sufferers may benefit from reading this book as may athritis sufferers as may all you healthy specimens.

Donated by Chris the Younger.  Many thanks. 

The photography is fabulous. Makes me envious.

If you haven't seen this publication in our tin cuphoard (i'm happy with this word) it is  a little bit late maybe for this summer season but just think you can become a tomato officionado by next summer.  There are already a couple in the garden.  So you can learn all about the good, the bad, the delicious and the ugly and how to deal with it all.

A worldwide database of 1300 'mouth-watering tomato varieties' is contained on a CD included as well.


Donated by Ros. Many thanks.

This is a hefty tome by the famous Monty Don. Well what can one say about it? It has everything you may need to know about growing vegetables, fruit trees, herbs, flowers and trees in the Northern Hemisphere but obviously extremely useful information for our Southern Hemisphere as well and luckily we don't need glasshouses to grow some things ie., chillies...

Again fabulous photography..


Donated by a local resident who came in one day to the Gardens with a couple of other books as well.
Many thanks.


You may borrow all the books in the Tin 'cuphoard' library.  There is a book in which you write your name, the name of the book, the date you borrowed the book and the date you returned the book.

 PS. Monty Don is at the moment gracing our ABC Iview with 'Monty Don's Italian Gardens' final episode.


 posted by marijka
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