Mother’s day is a moveable feast at our place!

Cool panoramic shot for May

A wee pop up from my calendar popped up today:  Go and take a photo of the garden.  It’s a little something I started last month.  I am determined to take a photo of the garden – as it is, warts and all, with no pre photo rushing around and primping and weeding.  But I am a bit forgetful so I need to put a reminder in my calendar or I’d completely forget and then the project would have failed before it even started.  Except I’m considering calling this Month One, because since last month I have discovered my new camera does panoramic shots and it is sooooo cool!  But in the interests of consistency I not only took a really cool panoramic shot, I climbed up onto the post that gave the best view and took two photos in the same place.  Then the rain came and I raced inside without getting wet.

This month

Last month

The weather forecast doesn’t look good. It’s supposed to be yucky for quite some time.  It’s great for my project as it holds me captive inside as nothing else can be done outside.  So over the next few days I will expect to achieve an incredible amount of work!  But it’s not so good news for the garden as there is heaps to do – there is always heaps to do.  I have to re-pot the winter greenhouse tomatoes as they are beginning to flower, I still haven’t sprayed the peaches for peach leaf curl and I need to do that before the leaves change colour and drop off!  I have to finish clearing out summer garden beds so I can plant cover crops…. I could go on – the list is endless.

Winter tomatoes

But the weather is a lucky break for Hubby the Un-Gardener!  He can’t finish my mother’s day gift!  I didn’t ask him for sparkly stuff or chocolate or all that usual mumsy stuff, although I did receive slippers that I’m gratefully wearing.  I asked for compost and was excited at the prospect of receiving it! You see – he has been digging a new flower garden for me, and was due to put in the finishing touches this weekend so I could move in what flowers I had in their temporary homes in the vegetable garden.

One day there will be flowers here

However instead we took a very long road trip to visit my ailing 94 year old Nana, who turned out wasn’t as ailing as first thought and was delighted to see us.  I believe she has it in her to take a helicopter trip on her 100^th birthday like she wants – despite what the doctors say!  When it was suggested she do it now she said a 95^th birthday wasn’t special enough!  Bless her!

Such beautiful colours

The trip wasn’t completely without a hint of gardening.  I now have a huge burning desire to race out to the nearest nursery and get trees, lots of trees.  The autumnal colours on display down the length of the country were a sight to behold.  The countryside was lit up with such bright and vibrant reds and yellows.  We couldn’t have timed the trip better if we’d planned it so we could see this specular landscape.

I also had the opportunity to pop into a garden centre to pick up a scented gardenia plant for Nana and found this huge box full of elephant garlic cloves.  Well I couldn’t not buy any – it wouldn’t be right!  So I got heaps!  One clove is bigger than one whole bulb I grew last year, and I thought last year’s garlic was a decent size!

Elephant Garlic – see the normal bulb I grew last year on the bottom left – I thought it was a decent sized one!

But I must get on, my project won’t write itself and the deadline is looming fast.

Come again soon – hopefully the weather will clear and Hubby the Un-Gardener will finish my flower garden and I can have mother’s day all over again!

Sarah the Gardener  : o )