Karyn and Pierre are getting married on October 24th. It's official! Another friend June is getting married in November. It also looks like our Te Atatu Floral and Garden Circle trip to Tauranga is going ahead.
Am so looking forward because I haven't been out of my little bubble in ages. If things go well we might even be visiting each others gardens in the Floral Circle.
On the gardening front I haven't had to do much aside from pick flowers! This time I'm going to have a go drying them and pressing them in wax paper. Flowers are so fleeting that you need to be observant when they do arrive. Surprisingly mum did notice there were more flowers than usual that even my Aunties remarked on them when they came over. She grudgingly said 'oh its just Selina's planting them really there are too many' (I won't translate what she actually says in Chinese but you can be sure it's a backhanded compliment. ) My garden has been attracting the cats next door and my cousin who comes when she want to pick fennel or rosemary or lavender.
I'm hoping that people will get the message to try and do their own garden if they want to see the fruits (and flowers) of their labour rather than at present assume that all gardeners are dying to work on other peoples gardens for cash. It is really not fun if you spend all your time weeding and looking after a garden and you don't even get to pick the produce. Which is amazingly still what people think to do the world over, like all the people who are practically forced to grow coffee in Indonesia and then don't have enough land or time to grow food to feed themselves...the coffee just gets exported to some richer country so they can have it as a luxury good.
Oh but we can't grow coffee in England or Holland or New Zealand it's too cold. Well tough.You can drink dandelion tea instead. I am ready to give up chocolate or rice if it can't be grown here so I can have my lamb and potatoes and crayfish and pipis. And chokos and feijoas. And possibly now its warmer..bananas. I'm sure nobody else in the world really wants our exports which is fine with me. Don't we have people living in poverty here that don't have enough to eat, so why feed those that already do?
