Spring has arrived, and big G had her birthday. She was a spring chicken, I was an autumn chick born at the wrong time of year. She gets blooming flowers, I get dead leaves. Echium always puts on a candle display for my sisters birthday and miraculously she is still here, though for only two more days before she flies back.
Dad also took this photo of a Mummy Cat look-alike without the socks, could she possibly be related? I have nicknamed her Daughter Cat.
Without a resident cat, the birds are having a field day in the garden, and the tuis have been drinking the kowhai flowers. I am seriously thinking of adopting another cat, but so far have been unable to make the trip out of the house to do so, as other family members need attention...
Mitre 10 had their annual Garden Evening showcasing their wares and I managed to score quite a bit of swag except I was luckless in the raffle draw, where hose reels, giant rakes and vege pods were up for grabs. Too bad I was rejected from their work crew, same story with Kings Plant Barn. I guess they just don't need another COG (check-out girl) in their wheel. I bought flower seeds and a herd of ceramic sheep, three white and one black of course. Am still waiting on my ceramic shell, that was left behind at the studio while everyone else had theirs, Thera took pity on me and offered me her snail as consolation.
Our garden club hosted a speaker from the Orchid Club, but I confess, it was not my cup of tea and doing a working bee down Taupo way to enthuse over native orchids is not my idea of a good time. I just haven't fallen for the whole Orchid buzz and become an orchid lover. Though I entered the produce table for the first time with rhubarb stalks and got second place!
Otherwise things are looking up in New Gardenland, though surely there will be a time when Garden Planet becomes a reality. Of course you don't need to listen to me to talk about it when you are busy doing it yourself. Spring brings...onions, rolls, lambs, chickens, fever and cleaning. Daylight saving, flowers perfume the air, and everyone who timed it right has their babies.
