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All Creatures Great and Small…

February 20, 2016 By SandRa Timmins 4 Comments

Mice, possums, thrush, rabbits, rats and the odd pukeko.

These are my new foe.  For we have moved again.. (which is why I haven’t been here for a while).

No longer do we have this in our backyard..

The neighbours

The neighbours

 

We now have this…

New neighbours

New neighbours

These sunsets…

sunset in Foxton, NZ

This glorious carpet…..

retro 70's carpet

Retro!

And a lot of work to do….

potential gardens, foxton, NZ

Many potential gardens lie here

It’s very exciting, the potential, but also quite daunting.  There’s a lot of work to do to get a stunning herb garden and productive vegie garden up and running.  No herb or vegie gardens were here but I keep on coming across the bones of a great garden that once was.  I’m thinking it must’ve been along the lines of a formal country garden, it’s now the formal residence of wandering jew and grass.  Ohh, but it does have an orchard!  Apple trees, feijoa, plum, lemon, peach and a mandarin that needs a lot of loving, actually they all do.  This will be an awesome learning curve for me, even though I was bought up on a feijoa orchard I don’t have a lot of experience with fruit trees.

So plans are racing through my head on how I’m going to do things, but the wise voice at the back of my mind is reminding me that only fools rush in…

If it’s windy you can create shelter

If it’s dry, you can water and mulch

But if it’s shady, you can’t create sun

 

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Comments

  1. heidi says

    February 20, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    OMG Looks great! So stoked for you all, despite you slowly moving further and further away 🙁
    Loves and good vibes your way xxx

    Reply
    • SandRa Timmins says

      February 23, 2016 at 7:37 am

      Thanks Heids, I’ve worked out where we can meet that’s central when you and your fam move though! xo

      Reply
  2. Angie says

    February 22, 2016 at 5:11 am

    I’m sure you will work your magic in this garden,like you all ways do,I hope this is yours for keeps??

    Reply
    • SandRa Timmins says

      February 23, 2016 at 7:34 am

      Thanks Angie! Unfortunately we are still renting, but it’s long term this time…fingers crossed!

      Reply

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