Good-bye spring

It's that time of year again!  As Christmas approaches the momentum builds and the 'to do' list only gets longer at work.  No sooner is a task crossed off than another 2 are added to our plate, there's never a dull day!  But with only 8 days of school left before I'm free as a bird for the summer, I've finally been able to get into the garden this weekend and begin clearing some of the spring plants that are looking decidedly tatty and past their best.  The weather is gorgeous - and it's just been too nice a day to waste on paperwork - that's what nights are for.  After all... who needs to sleep?


Since I've not been able to get on and update my blog I thought I'd just post a pictorial journey of the last 2 months in my garden.  It looked so good for a while there :)

We're keeping the path to the secret berry patch weed free by laying down our grass clippings there.  It's not all that pretty but it' effective.

The asparagus peas filled out the front garden beautifully.  I love their little red pea-like flowers.  I'll definitely be planting these again next year.

The first of the rose bushes to bloom.  The perpetual spinach and rainbow beets were too much for us to eat and bolted, which rather spoilt the effect in this little garden :)

The first sweet peas!

Mignonette, roses and cerinthe major.

Agapathus 'Tinkerbell' and lobelia (and weeds!) in the rock garden.

My beloved Chatham Island Forget-me-nots seems to be thriving.

We de-thatched our lawn this year to remove the moss build up.  I managed to remove 2 wheel barrow loads from a 4 metre squared section!  (There wasn't a lot of lawn left after removing all that moss.  Whoops!  Should have done something about it last year).  


I had the brilliant idea of using the moss to mulch my strawberries (trying save money on pea straw, which is so dear for us townies).  Watch this space to find out if it works or not!

Look what came up in the veggie patch!  

Sam wanted to know if they were toadstools or mushrooms, "Because if they're mushrooms we can eat them and if they're toadstools they're poisonous."  I'm pretty sure this is a very simplistic way to look at it! Wonder who told him that?