I've made it into print ! .......

Well, at last I have got something in to print!!

"Access Care Southern" is an agency that provides support for me to stay in my own home.
They put out a news letter each quarter and you guessed it, I have an article about my garden in the winter edition!!

I thought I would post it here, to show my feelings about my garden.
Here we go ................................

“To be a gardener you must be an eternal optimist,”

You drop a tiny seed into the ground and expect a beautiful tree to grow.”

Maybe not a mighty Oak, but at least a bean or a pansy!

My garden is very precious to me, and my daughters too,

because it keeps me out of their hair!

When I am out in my garden, I relax, except when chasing those dratted caterpillars.

My garden is nothing like the pictures in fancy magazines.

It is a happy jumble of everything that takes my fancy.

There are pumpkins and pansies, egg plants and geraniums, strawberries and chilies , and flowers of all different colours.

There are of course, my “special” plants, each one a living memory of my four- legged companions.

If you enter my garden, the first thing you notice, is nothing grows in the ground. Everything is in a container of some sort, standing on a milk crate, an old table, or even a kitchen chair.

I do have one beautiful galvanized planter, but the pumpkins and zucchinis do not want to stay in there, so now they ramble all over the ground, making friends with all the other plants.

My garden is also a magic place, ask my grandchildren, they will tell you.

We plant tiny a bean seed, in a few days a little leaf appears and in no time at all we are eating the sweetest beans you have ever tasted. It just has to be magic!

My garden is my refuge from the stresses of life!

There it is,

actually it was quite hard to put my feelings into words.

I love my garden, in all its seasons.

Until next time --- Happy Days!

Its getting colder in Melbourne, I hope more of my winter flowers will cheer you up.