Such a nice surprise

I am so excited...this is what I found this morning!

One of our artichokes has started to flower :)

Colours...

I just thought I would share some of the colours in our garden...it might not be spring yet but you can always find some colour if you look hard enough :)

Taking turns

I love the way the children at Stella's kindergarten work together. I know this doesn't happen everywhere, and it probably doesn't happen all the time, but they do seem to enjoy working as a team quite often. Here is a lovely example... when we went for a play at one of the children's houses during the holidays we left the kids to play in the garden while all the mums chatted. After a while we noticed they had worked out a system where eveyone got to have a turn on the one small trampoline that was in the garden...this is proof, and I promise no adults were involved :)

Waiting.....

I am now just waiting to get stuck into my garden....and waiting is so hard! I have been shifting grass this afternoon, to dig out a garden around the edges of our back lawn. It seems to be such a slow process but we are getting there. And I have thrown in some seeds, just because I am keen to get started. So I planted some marigolds, silverbeet/chard, calendula and nasturtiums so far. I figure they will take a few weeks to germinate and the fear of a late frost SHOULD be over by then. I have bought all me seeds for the vege garden, and planned it all so once we dig out the compost bins and get it all prepped it will be all go! I just found some pics of one of my vege beds at the beginning of summer last year, and it seemed so small ...by the end of summer it was NUTS! I just can't wait for it all to begin again!!!

big girl now...

So my baby just turned three...so hard to believe. Some days it feels like we have always known each other and other days I realise time has flown by so fast! She had a lovely birthday, and was incredibly blaise about gifts which is not a bad thing at all :)

planning in progress

So for some reason I have not made it to this point before now...busy, kinda. I have been filling in for my boss for a week (reminding myself why I don't want to work full time :) The weather, mixed with work, means the garden is looking very sorry for itself. But that should change next week (weather permitting!)I have mapped my beds out, I will be ordering my seeds for spring and getting things underway. Big plans...watch this space :)