my avocado fixation

I have a problem...
(well, probably more than one)
I can't bring myself to throw away an avocado seed....
they are just so big and fecund and full of promise

the first duck of spring...

summer can't be far away when the first duck belly flops into our swimming pool.

bare trees

I've been thinking of some fibre artwork based around trees - leaves, vines, jungley looking, but at the moment all my trees are bare and it's a time of year that I love, I like the cold and bare trees always give me a proper sense of the season.
As Australia doesn't really have native deciduous trees, we have to make do with imported exotics, this is one of my crepe myrtles that is in the far corner of my secret garden

also a japanese maple that I had bought to turn into a bonsai 35 years ago, it sort of got away from me,

and I just love the texture of the bark on the maple with the contrasting bromeliad colour

crab apple

It always amazes me how this poor old decayed crab apple manages to continue to grow and do......

......this, each spring

first try

I have bits of gardening journals on different sites going back over the past few years, so I hope to eventually move it all here and do my best to keep it updated.

At the moment I'm playing around with the html to alter the template - not sure if I like this background, it's interesting though, to work on the template, and try to figure out which bits go where.