A Word a Week : Garden (take 2)

Gardening is one of my passions. It gives me joy and peace at the same time to watch the evolving seasons and the different flowers come and go. The garden has changed over 15 years. We started with an almost blank canvas. This place had been a rental property for years. So it was easy maintenance, surrounded by lawn with a couple of struggling cane palms and one glorious Bauhinia tree in the centre of the lawn. Sadly it died during the drought of 1999 to 2009.

In New Zealand we had a cottage style garden, but many of the plants grown in New Zealand could not tolerate the hot, humid conditions of the Queensland summer. So when we moved to Queensland we enjoyed the years of planting and developing a lush tropical garden to suit the climate.

Here is a gallery of some of the flowers and plants and a couple of birds that regularly visit…

Thank you Sue for picking this word from your dictionary this week. Visit “A word a week” to wander round many more gardens.

Front garden

3 daisys

That bottle is a bird feeder

I cannot remember the name of this vine

Bali corner, a lovely place to sit with a cup of tea.

Jack made the pillars from gem stones collected around Australia over years of travel. Then cut and arranged in these columns. He also made the Buddha statue…

Heliconias

Batplant

Fish ponds

Kookaburra

2 juvenile magpies, part of a family that called our place home

Bauhinia vine

Side garden, Bauhinia vine

Hand made stepping stones around the front garden

Tropical lilies

Yellow water lily

Tropical water lily

Lily ponds made from recycled baths

Browalia