Everything in the garden is sunny or is it?
Our intrepid reporter found these poppies in prison. Find out where they are at the end.
The show garden you didn’t see on television.
The garden you never leave…
This is where the lonely poppies live. Our lovely Kings Park council nursery closed down by the council in 2024. It was on my walk home, I collected a few plants every week, school children came after school...
If you want to cheer yourself up why not visit another slightly bigger King’s Park..
Do you have a favourite place to buy plants?
Times and Tides of a Beachwriter 
I hardly ever buy a plant. My garden is chock full, both with intentional plants and volunteers that have filled in the spaces between them. If a plant looks good, I have trouble pulling it out. I occasionally remove some especially numerous specimens to make room for something new, but the new plant is usually a rooted cutting or division of something I already have but want more of. I’ve also found that the latest varieties are often too needy to survive in my garden, with its dry shade full of tree roots.
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Well done, that must save you a fortune, the amount one cans spend at nurseries.
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P.S. I love the orange flowers in the first photo. Are they osteospermums?
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Yes they are, also called Cape Daisies here, because they come from South Africa? Our first few years in this house we ended up with enormous bushes of them because we had mild winters, then one Christmas we had a lovely week of hard frosts and everything looked pretty, but the osteospermums were reduced to a soggy heap!
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We do have a lot of donated plants because we had nothing when we moved into our home, and we had a big back yard. We buy a few things every month, and we’ve been in our house for a year, so it’s looking good. The last picture is a pretty sad view. Poppies are pretty sad creatures once they are finished blooming.
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This is the longest I have ever been in one house with the same garden, we have left a few gardens behind.
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When I retired, I decided to buy some plants and even a little tree with such disastrous results that I am no longer allowed to go to the nurseries. So I just weed and sulk.
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Oh that is a shame Geoff, what you need is a nice little allotment all to yourself.
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I am lucky enough to live near the King’s Park in Western Australia mentioned in Janet’s blog. It is very beautiful and much valued by Perth residents and visitors alike. If you’re ever here, pop in for a cup of tea!
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Hello Taleblazer 2, so glad to feature your favourite park.
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