I may be sitting in side, with my wood fire going. I may be wearing a pure wool hand knitted jumper as I drink and compose this post. It is almlost 3pm here and the clouds have rolled in along with a wind. Not a gale at this point, it has been nice ot have a fairly wind free day today. Gales and rain were the past few.
I wandered about the garden and was mesmerised by how Spring is rollicking in with abandon. Every fruit tree is in bud or bloom. This brings me a lot of joy as I care for the fruit trees as in water them for only the first year they are put in the garden. After this they need to fend for them selves. I do add pot ash or sulpher potash and for some a little blood and bone.
above, Daphanne, small maple, caterpillar damage on nettles, plum tree in flower, peach tree, marigolds and rocket flowering, red currants, asparagus, violet, and bay tree.
This years new apricot tree, Huon Valley crab apple, fig,, lilac, this shrub is about to bloom in lovely blueish flowers, so happy my new plumis blooming as is the older one, my three types of apple tree that the cockatoos destroyed last year, has some leaves forming, yellow gage and green gage plums, red currant, hazel nuts, then cherry and two other trees not sure of in the chook run /orchard. Blue berries, with Jostaberries and second red currant bush behind.
Gooseberries are all doing well even with the chickens digging under them. My old cherry is flowering, and the new morello cherry in the pot on the deck is budding.
The air is full of birds singing to attract mates. I observe wattle birds flying in a courtship ritual. I have a wee forlorn pardelotte whose beautiful call in search of a mate seems to not being answered.
Their are lambs and calves everywhere about my place. It may be cold today but you cant hold Mother Earth back!
blessings to You. Tazzie
Echidna Home 
Seems like only a fortnight ago there were little buds on the trees and today, a full coat of foliage.
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lol blossoms everywhere, bees so many and so varied which is brilliant. The bumble bees are huge this year I swear I saw one that was double the normal ones. I am happy to see my peach is not so loaded as last year. I am thrilled my gooseberries have all survived their transplantation, and now have been dealing with the chooks digging their holes to lay in around the edges.lol ( they have been escaping the chicken run. I have rigged up a amazing set up to stop them it is very um outhere. It is doing the job. Not a hen out of the run today. Such a brilliant day here hot and bllue too good to be at home lol
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Lovely garden! So many trees and plants blooming already. 🙂
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