Frogpondsrock...

Assorted photographs all taken here at home.

As the title says these photos were all taken here.

The wallabies are at it again…

For my overseas readers wallabies are small kangaroos.

Small, tasty, kangaroos.

Actually, to be precise they are small, tasty,plentiful, kangaroos that are in imminent danger of providing me with a nutritious lunch, if they don’t stop eating my garden right this second!!!

*takes a deep breath*

Normally the wallabies and I get along quite nicely. They keep the grass down. They only eat the lower branches of my fruit trees and they aren’t as destructive as those rotten, bloody possums.

I loathe possums.Possums will seriously damage a young fruit tree in order to nibble on one or two blossoms. Possums will break half a dozen branches climbing to the  top of a young tree and then once they are up there they will break another couple of branches, just for fun as they go about their possummy business.

I went outside today and found that parts of my flower garden had been seriously nibbled. I had planted out some chrysanthemums, pansies and marigolds. The wallabies, thanked me for my thoughtfulness and chomped away merrily. They also had a snack on a pot of geraniums that I had been thinking about planting out into Mum’s garden.

My flower garden is in a constant state of flux. Sometimes it is quite nice but mostly my garden is in a state of rambling neglect. The plants need to be able to tolerate severe frosts, occasional snow, baking heat and prolonged drought. When you factor in wallabies, possums and the occasional passing deer, combined with my she’ll be right attitude you have a garden that looks like this.

Which brings me to the point of this rather rambly post. Mum’s garden.

I have been thinking a lot about the plants that I want to use.They need to be colourful and fragrant, drought tolerant, frost hardy and not on the local wildlifes most nommed list.

This is going to be the site for Mum’s garden. There is a natural hollow there that is filled with the remains of a bonfire at the moment. I am going to put two kiddies clam shells in the hollow and voila we have two frogponds.

Mum liked proteas as well as those giant banksias that were the baddies in snugglepot and cuddlepie. I know those plants fit the climactic bill and are pretty inedible as well.

I have lots of bulbs already. White Nerines in a pot, that I gave Mum one year for her birthday. Red Jacobean lilies that Mum and I got from Nan’s garden. Nan has promised me some orange Tiger lilies as well as some white Christmas lilies.

Mum and I had also gathered other plants from Nan’s garden. An orange climber thing that has bell flowers and seems to be quite hardy, whether it gets eaten or not is another matter.

I have a bell shaped trellis thingy that I was originally going to set up out the front here over an Amy sized wading pool. I had planned to grow kiwi fruit over it and the idea was that Amy could eat kiwi fruit whilst she was paddling in the pool. The kiwi fruit turned out to be the sookiest, thirstiest plants ever and the wallabies adored them. Oh well, the best laid plans…

So I will put the trellis thingy over the frog pond and grow the orange climber up it, along with a lovely white, super smelly, honeysuckle. The small honey-eaters will love it. There is a bird bath down at Mum’s that I am sure was a gift from one of her brothers. I will add that into the mix as well.

I am going to buy some mushroom compost and sheep poo this week and then I can make a start. That is the plan so far. Stay tuned..

Wordless Wednesday..

This is a Brown tree frog, Litoria ewingi.

If you look closely you can see that it still has its tail.

Click here to see more Wordless Wednesdays…

Another day another Positive result…

Yesterday I was a tad pissed off. Well actually I was more than a tad pissed off I was bloody irate. My child had been insulted and “The Lioness Within” was having bit of a stretch and showing her teeth.

This morning it was all good. The blogosphere had rallied round, Points had been made and spleens had been vented. Thank you very very much…

I would like to give these flowers to everyone that commented here or on Veronica’s post. Woohoo!!

Or if you are allergic to flowers there is always the Rocking Frog Star award. Because seriously you are all Frog Stars and you rock!!!

Take one, Take Both… Seriously take them both… I am going to be a grandmother again in Late January or early February. So I am in an exceptionally good mood today..

Cheers Kim

weekly winners (aka my 199th post)

Yay it is Sunday again and apart from today being Mothers day it is also time to go over and visit  Lotus The Amazingly Sarcastic Mom.… YAY….    My  next post will be my 200th. I don’t have a clue what to write about at all. So any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.