Year of Blooms - July

Being winter here in Australia it felt like things stayed similar between June and July although I did pinch that pink flower from our neighbours garden (after they moved out!) 

 sssh!

 In happy news the seeds that I saved from the cosmos earlier in the year have grown into new flowers - my first real success! woohoo

 You can see the desert rose is about to spring to life with a new batch of flowers

 nearly!

 and little seedlings in the flower bed are still going strong!

 My first passionfruit flower! Oh so pretty and smells divine. I've learnt they don't bloom for very long.  I have one lonely passionfruit on my vine (which I'm going to pick this week) though I never did see its flower!

 On an unrelated flower note, I put some turquoise through my hair and cut a fringe (I get bored of my hair easily!)

 cosmos!

 Those flowers on the right were a special delivery from Ben! My neighbour knocked on my door with them and I was wondering why he had bought me flowers until I read the little calling card that it was from Ben! I'm writing this post a day before I post it and BEN IS BACK TONIGHT!!! I'm going to go down to the airport to pick him up and I'm sooooo excited!!

Cannot wait, his work hitch has been 8 weeks this time and that is too long!

 Red geranium popping back to life too!

Next month will be the last month I share from this garden with our move coming up (still haven't found a place but Ben and I are going full time house hunting when he is back!). I'm trying my best to go with the flow and keep on planting and hopefully our new place has a garden where I can start again :)

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Year of Blooms - April

April sped by way too quick, so fast in fact that I almost forget to stop and smell the roses :P

More cosmos flowers bloomed in my garden bed.  After having a precariously start to the year, I'm hoping all the seeds I plant from here on in will have successes :)

This month I planted some everlasting daisies and some bombast red peony poppies *fingers crossed*

I tried to be diligent in taking photos of flowers when I was out an about too

I also made sure to harvest the cosmos blooms so I can replant them :)

Some beautiful sunflowers in the main street of Nimbin (where I visited for my birthday recently - will share more photos once I've edited them!)

Ben bought these blooms from a farmers market in lismore (another town we visited on our trip) since taking this photo the flowers have all bloomed and each one is a different colour!

This tree in our backyard sprouted all these lovely flowers, it's doing so well it has pretty much stolen the majority of the sun from our clothes line but their prettiness makes up for the stealing.

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Year of booms - March

Another month down and so much to share on my year of blooms project!

The roses kept on blooming throughout the month of March and I was able to save their petals again

Probably the most exciting happening, Ben and I were able to save a huge orchid! I cannot express how happy it made me to carry this thing around before finding a home for it, nestled against a tree in our yard.

Ben bought home a lovely bunch of flowers which made our house smell super lovely. 

Word of warning, you do have to be careful with these lillies around cats as their pollen can be deadly.

At the start of the month I planted, poppies, pansies and peony.

I'm a little worried those seeds may never sprout because I had to do a garden reset. All my little sprouts I spied in Feb popping up turned out to be mostly weeds. I did have some cosmos and sunflowers sprout (exciting!) but the sunflowers never grew to full size and died just as quickly as they bloomed. I asked Ben's mum to give her expertise and she suggested more fertiliser, more soil (or aerating what was there) and adding some bark. I explained how I had already planted lots of seeds so she suggested I could aerate just with a hand shovel. So I spent a day making the soil beautiful again and I'm really hoping for some successful months in the future :)

The plotted plants did great, the geranium were in full blooms.

(One of the pretty cosmos that did sprout in my garden bed!)

The award for best blooms goes to the desert rose, hands down!

We had some bromeliads bloom in our yard

Do garlic chive flowers count?

Poor sad sunflower!

I've been a little quiet on the blog front recently and that's because we traveled down to Port Macquarie the other week. You may remember how I mentioned that Ben's brother lives down there and how his wife gifted me sunflower seeds. When we visited her at Christmas her sunflowers looked amazing, she had planted them in September and was looking forward to planting more for her son's birthday in March (the reason we traveled down again). Well on her second planting her sunflowers didn't perform as well and she put it down to the wrong season. I chatted with her and she suggested I wait until September to replant and see how I go again :)

Another project occupying my time has been working on Spirit You :) The stool above is from that side project and I have a seperate instagram account too if you would like to follow along.

I'm excited for what blooms April brings :)
Fingers crossed my garden bed lives on!

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