Day 326/366

I've been picking a small handful of blueberries from my garden most days.

I have two small plants in pots, under nets, to stop the birds from eating them before I do.

They are doing so well I've decided I must get a couple more plants for the garden.

That way I will have two small handfuls of blueberries at least every other day.

Blueberry plants prefer acid soils so are suited to mountain gardens.  For pollination to occur at least two plants are necessary.

One cupful of blueberries provides you with twenty five percent of your daily average allowance of manganese, twenty four percent of your daily average allowance of vitamin C, and thirty six percent of your daily average allowance of vitamin K.

Blueberries

My first crop of blueberries.

These have been delicious atop my oats at breakfast, or simply to snack on.

Blueberry bush in flower.

This Month In The Garden.

August.
Saturday September 10.

A dedication.

I would like to dedicate this post to those who passed in the last six weeks or so.

But mostly my Dearest Uncle who left this world just short of his ninetieth birthday.

To my Mr Honey Pie's work colleagues - two in the same week. 

To my sewing teacher's elderly Aunt.

To local icon and Grandmother Shirley Wilson, who died tragically in a house fire one week ago.

And last but not least...to my Dearest Daughter's school friend, overwhelmed by the pain of life.

All gone to a better place.

Here in the southern hemisphere, we celebrate the first day of Spring on 1st September.

Thank you for visiting my garden.
This post IS a little late; due to some gremlins sabotaging my post!

This Month In The Garden

MAY

I don't know if strawberries are supposed to be flowering at this time of year, but this one is!

Dark buds are forming on the Rhodanthe.

Honey Pie and I picked up four Hebe plants for four dollars at a fund raiser on polling day.

I placed them alongside the driveway, where there's always a risk of being run over by errant drivers!  At one dollar each I don't feel so bad if they should be destroyed.  For the moment, they are sending out new buds.  Fingers crossed.

Common Thyme continues to over-run a rocky nook.

Our one little rose bush continues to send out beautiful scarlet buds.

An Aloe Vera spike looking kind of eerie.

The broad beans were a little slow sprouting but with the heavy rain we've had over the past few days it looks like they've finally woken up!

My piece de resistance - Blueberry flowers.  Aren't they just stunning?  I bought two bushes at the opening of our local refurbished Bunnings store earlier this year. Gardening guru, Don Burke of Burkes Backyard advised me that I need to buy two bushes, not one.

They had three berries each on them at the time.  

Look at them now!! 

The Backhousia myrtifolia hedge is showing lots of new growth after a decent prune early in autumn.

Echeveria Black Prince in flower.

The cyclamen seedlings are doing well.

I think this is Banksia spinulosa but don't quote me on that.  These brushes are well spread out over the garden.  No care required at all.

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