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I’ve been away – not for long, but just long enough to soak in a few days of someone else’s summer, which was a lot better than ours. I got away to Flinders, outside of Melbourne for three days for…
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This is not how I meant to start the year. I have dropped the ball and started to fall by the wayside. But I had a very good excuse. I somewhat foolishly decided it would be a good idea to…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Coastal gardening, Drone shot, garden visit, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, restoring order, Virtual garden tour, you tube
From time to time Hubby the Un-Gardener has meetings with clients away from home and more often than not it is at a café location that roughly halfway between them both. So, this week when he told me a client…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Auckland Botanic Gardens, Coastal gardening, Garden art, garden visit, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, May, New Zealand, NZ Native plants, Roses, Sarah the Gardener
Day 2 of #MakeMayCount was starting to look like there would be no room at all for anything ‘planty’. As it was a weekend day, we wanted to paint one of the bedrooms in our house. We haven’t really done…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: avocado, avocado orchard, Coastal gardening, garden visit, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Listen along, Make May Count, May, Sarah the Gardener
I have a garden group visiting the garden today, probably the last for a while. But I do love having groups coming to visit, first and foremostly to share the garden love, as there is always the opportunity for it…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Autumn, End of season clean up, garden visit, GARDENING, Grow something new, Growing Vegetables, March, New Zealand, Panic tidying, Sarah the Gardener, Tidying the garden
Our water tank has a little red ball poking out of the top. It should be on a long stick as the internal part is floating on the surface of the water letting us know just how much we have…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: April, Ayrlies Garden, French Tarragon, garden visit, GARDENING, gardening with friends, Growing Vegetables, Herbs, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, rain, Sarah the Gardener, water
I have to say in this fine country we are completely blessed with people full of passion and added to that exceptional resources, which have come together to make the kiwi gardening experience what it is – something amazing. Many…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Daltons, Daltons Plantation, Early Spring, Garden inspiration, garden visit, GARDENING, New Zealand, Sand processing, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, September, Xanthe White, Yates
There is never a dull moment in my world. Actually, no that isn’t true – there have been plenty of dull moments this spring while I wait for my recently almost dry soil to drain again after yet another deluge…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Bus tour, garden visit, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, mid spring, New Zealand, October, Police, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, Stuck bus, Tow truck, wonderful day
It has been an interesting week. It hasn’t rained for a start. Well not much. These days rain doesn’t count unless it is bucketing down. And Sunday doesn’t count as this week, because if it did then I would have…
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I have spent a lot of time over the years just plodding about in my own garden and this made me perfectly happy. I love my garden and I wake up every morning and feel blessed to be living where…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Ayrlies Garden, February, garden visit, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Heroic Garden Party, Late Summer, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, water features