The ditch-digging is over and everything seems to be working. The ditch-digger is an interesting machine; it's not like the old-fashioned manual digger, but operates on a suction pump, and sucks the earth from the trench after it's been loosened by a person wielding an air hose. This is much less likely to break pipes and chop through tree roots. So you learn something everyday.
Beautiful spring day again, this has been the warmest winter on record, the weather mavens say. Magnolia and plum blossom in full ramp, first pear tree blossom any day now.
The weather's been so good I've even tidied up the composting area. Plants in bags on right are a dwarf cherry, and Old Port and Auckland Metro roses, waiting to go in. Somewhere.
Lovely 'Thalia' daffodils
This is a variegated symphytum with double mauve violets coming up through it - quite a good pairing.
Lay awake most of last night with buyer's remorse and anxiety about the trip I'm planning. This always happens, the great What If...? Oh phooey, feel the fear and do it anyway.
Watched "The Shipping News" again last night, I haven't seen it for years, been trying to find it for ages. Cate Blanchett unrecognisable as the tarty wife. Quote of the movie:
"Tea's a good drink. It'll keep yer goin'"
Love your garden - and envy you the magnolia. Cockatoos have now shredded two of mine, and I don't think I will try again.
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Do the cockies eat the flowers or are they just amusing themselves? We have a bird called a kea here, they are a mountain parrot, and their speciality is removing rubber from windshield wiper blades and laces from tramping boots.
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