by Sara | Oct 7, 2021 | News
After too much internet and zoom we went for a walk on Reotahi beach. No seaweed but Brocky found a huge log and then we found him a more reasonably sized one. There were some magnificent epiphytes on the cliff edge. We found some on the side of the road that still...
by Sara | Oct 6, 2021 | News
Well I suppose I just have to put up with her and go to sleep anyway. Sigh! Everyone got to sleep eventually with Sorrel relocated to our bed. We had a very productive day. Got everything planted successfully, harvested bamboo for a trellis for sugar snap peas and had...
by Sara | Oct 5, 2021 | News
After torrential rain in the night (cats needed to be dried off with towels) the sun is shining and dogs and llamas are happy. We have the bedroom door open again. A wet day meant we got the bedroom curtains up and the copper fire surround in place. More planting...
by Sara | Oct 4, 2021 | News
Firing warning shots at the marauding pukeko seems to work. They will also take off when the dogs bark or Lovage stalks them. The log splitter started first time after two years in lockdown! We had a great soak in the hot tub last night before torrential rain set in....
by Sara | Oct 3, 2021 | News
The totara sure know it is spring time. The new growth is so luscious it looks like flowers. We went to a very disappointing Plant Market yesterday, mainly expensive house plants, not what I was looking for. So I went to Tikipunga first thing this morning and came...
by Sara | Oct 2, 2021 | News
A very strong bean structure, built by the resident engineer genius, to withstand the mighty winds is now in place on the garden bank. I had exactly the right number of scarlet runner seeds to plant. Just hoping they will cope with clay under a very skinny layer of...
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