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Green Ambition

August 3, 2019chrissyb 8 Comments

It all started with Deborah and I talking about what fun it would be to have a greenhouse. Imagine being able to grow basil all year round! How about early tomatoes? Frangipani? And, since my cunning plan to use the… Continue Reading →

ambition, gardening, greenhouse, moving, vegetable garden

I’m All out of Gloves*

July 14, 2018chrissyb 10 Comments

I’ve just finished a full weekend of weeding**, which has reminded me that before relocating to ‘the land’ I would have been wise to buy shares in a garden glove company. I can’t count the number of pairs I’ve worn… Continue Reading →

farm life, gardening, weeds

The Nom-Nom lawn

June 2, 2018chrissyb 9 Comments

We’re starting with a pretty picture of a rose because links in Facebook insist on featuring the first picture shown in a blog post. Last week it was an ugly fly-swat and I feel the need to up my aesthetic… Continue Reading →

fencing, gardening, ponies

Bags of Bulbs!

March 30, 2018chrissyb 6 Comments

A strange thing happened a week or two ago. I arrived home from my yoga class to find Favorite Stepson had loaded up the kitchen table with several large paper bags bearing labels such as: ‘These are a mixture: daffodil,… Continue Reading →

autumn, gardening, plant life

Cognitive Reframe

March 8, 2018chrissyb 12 Comments

Yesterday I went out to do some weeding in a thicket of black nightshade that has sprung up down by the barn. There I was, toiling away pulling out plant after plant, when it suddenly occurred to me that instead of… Continue Reading →

gardening, weeds

Snail

October 18, 2017chrissyb 13 Comments

How is it that tiny baby snails are cute, while tiny baby slugs are not? This mini-muncher was sleeping in the broccoli I brought in from the garden for dinner last night. Overcome by sentimentality I relocated hir* to the… Continue Reading →

farm life, gardening

It’s a Riot

October 16, 2017chrissyb 11 Comments

There’s a riot of green in the veggie patch just now, plants are falling all over each other as they jostle for space. Even though I expanded the food garden last year, right now it’s more crowded than an Auckland… Continue Reading →

gardening, plant life, spring, vegetable garden

An English Garden

September 18, 2017chrissyb 10 Comments

During our first summer here I created a Mediterranean Garden from a previously arid wasteland. This year I’ve been working on a companion piece: The English Garden. The plot (haha) was hatched early in the year, when Stephen and Favorite… Continue Reading →

gardening, plant life, summer

Looking Hairy

May 28, 2017chrissyb 16 Comments

Here we are in autumn again. The nights are getting nippier and the ponies are getting fluffier. Summer grows a coat that is plush like a teddy bear. Bonnie just goes all Hairy Maclary on us. In the garden our summer veggie and fruit… Continue Reading →

autumn, bonnie, gardening, kaimanawa pony, orange grove, plant life, ponies, vegetable garden

Lavender and Old Denim

February 19, 2017chrissyb 14 Comments

Due to rain — and boy were we glad for it, the water tank situation was seeming a little precarious — bridge construction has been on hold. We don’t want anyone slipping into that ditch (there may be trolls). Sorry. I… Continue Reading →

gardening, plant life

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