Showing posts with label roses. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 1, 2018

Year of Blooms - January


One month into my project and I found myself noticing flowers everywhere - such a lovely addition to my life!

Ben and I had a walk around (our place backs onto a horse paddock) collecting a bunch of flowers and were shocked at just how many we could find! A fun crafternoon activity of collecting and arranging flowers!

Ben also bought me a bunch of flowers which was the perfect excuse to pull out my silver backdrop and get cheesy!

These seeds were waiting to go, fingers crossed I have some flowers to show you guys in three months time.

Our backyard came alive with these tiny pink wildflowers

I went out and took a little video to show you!



I bought a jewel mix of nasturtium for my veggie garden!

And I started making sure to save petals and seeds


Shots of the pretty roses, in our new garden.


Discovered some little orchids tucked away in corner!

I also made a little ceramic flower holder so I could start having a flower on my desk each day :)

The pink wildflowers (from the video above) dropped off and in their place, seeds pods emerged. Our landlord was coming around to mow our yard and I got a little sad that all the seeds would go to waste. I could see the majority of the pods weren't ready to be picked yet but it seemed a better option then being mowed over. Miraculously all the pods, even the green ones, dried out and eventually opened up and I was able to collect all the seeds and plant them :)



Our frangipani tree was in full bloom this month - such a nice fragrance to have on my desk :)









And my new garden bed that I made to plant all the flower seeds in each month! I've already spied tiny sprouts which is making me excited for the months to come!



Forget me not seeds that I sowed.

And my clay seeds balls in production! 
Any spare seeds that don't have the potential to be a weed, I've been rolling, and throwing.


How pretty is the Dessert Rose's pod, with it's wispy seeds!

So excited for these cosmos flowers to sprout!

A photo update on my African violet with its flowers now in full bloom. 
You can see a before shot, in my last post, here.


A cactus that is growing in our yard sprouted 100 amazing & huge flowers (which the bees absolutely loved!). Lowy is pretty confident it's a dragon fruit plant which I'm super excited about!


January thoughts: I'm feeling super inspired and happy about this project and I can't wait to see where the year takes me! Also throwing seeds bombs out the window of the car, whilst Ben drove around town, made me so so giddy :)
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Friday, December 15, 2017

Melbourne - iphone

Because I was shooting a wedding, I made sure to leave my digital camera gear at home when I went out exploring (just for extra peace of mind) which meant lots of film photos (still to come!) and that my phone got a good work out. A fun thing I'll always remember about this trip was being in the plane, moments before take off, awaiting some pretty big news. The girl in front of me had her ear pressed against her phone listening to the announcement on her screen before the air hostess came upon the loud speaker to tell us that the marriage equality vote had passed in Australia - lots of cheering! In the vote, Melbourne had the highest support for marriage equality and thus on my walks I saw lots and lots of stickers and placards, banners and posters scattered in shop windows and on people yards - it was amazing! 

I also grew my rose obsession on this trip and nearly died seeing all the lovely front gardens, where it seemed, every third house grew roses *gasp*

Someone please sponsor me to do a 'roses of Melbourne' coffee book :p





































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