June in the garden

 As far as gardening in June goes, I didn't do any...

   

 We were away for the whole month. I was really surprise at how well the garden held up while we were sipping cocktails and sunning ourselves on a tropical island! 

The bell pepper bush has exploded with gorgeous red bite-size gems. I love collecting them from the garden by using my shirt as a holder... it reminds me of adventures in the garden with my sister, Clare, when we were kids. I have preserved one batch with garlic and thyme, and am poaching and stuffing another batch with goats cheese, parmesan and parsley today. Yummy!

 

The parsley is lucious and gorgeous green. I will be taking some to my next girls dinner to give to the girls. Nothing better than sharing your produce with loved ones!

 This lovely plant is adding some much needed colour to the garden, now all the marigolds have died back and gone to seed. The edible flowers and leaves are a great addition to a winter salad. I got this plant from my Grandma's garden, so it makes me smile every time I see it.

 My "weeds"... corriander. I have not planted corriander for YEARS. It just pops up all over the place. This bed was left empty before I went away, and when I came back it was full of delicious corriander. It's even in the lawn, smells great when mowing!

 

"Laura's Strawberries" all the way from the Atherton Tablelands. Laura is my little sister, and she sent me some strawberry plants in the mail as little babies. They are growing well and starting to flower! 

 

Before and after...  the lemon grass is taking off.

 A shot for Mum...the 3 beds along the side fence.

 Dad came to visit a while ago, and he can never bloody sit still! So I gave him a job to do... "prune" the mock oranges. These used to be about 2 meters high. I must say, they loved the prune and so did the rest of the garden.

As a result of the garden having more sunlight, the rosemary hedge finally stands a chance!

I love succulents, and I'm experienting with making different patterns out of the various varieties. I'm thinking a stripe pattern like this will work well out the front around our mail box.

An old milo tin, covered in fabric and planted with succulents.

 
Succulents in an olive oil tin.


More ovely succulents...

This plant was a gift from the birds.

An old tree stump turned pot plant. I just dumped a head of potting mix into the centre and planted some crawling plants in. A old eye sore is now a beautiful feature.


The pot came from a flower arrangement I was given, and I got the climber as a cutting from a neighbour (they may or may not know about that part!)