Sunday, April 3, 2011

Melbourne Flower & Garden Show

This weekend Miss Bok and I attended the Melbourne Flower & Garden show. It is set every year in the world heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building and surrounding Carlton Gardens.  It was a chilly Autumn day but luckily we avoided any rain or rather, the rain avoided us!  Here are a few pics from the event.

Inside the building

Hellloooooo lady!
My favourite show garden was the kitchen garden.  I really like the coop.

I really like it!  Other than it being timber (mites) I really love it!

I love that even the borders on the ground were edible, I've tried this myself but with limited success.  It works out well to begin with but doesn't last.

Love those curly iron stakes that the apples are climbing over.

Diggers produce

For small spaces, this lean-to glasshouse is a great idea!

Love these, I've been looking for a 'pond' and this seems ideal.  It's an old Sri Lankan cooking pot but I'm not sure that fish or frogs would survive in it and no one is really sure what material the pot is and what would leach into the water.

I nearly took home a few of these iron letters!
Love these coat racks made from reclaimed timber

Reminds me of Easter  :)

Another chook tractor I found

The  world heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building 
Also remind me of Easter.  Am I slightly obsessed with egg shapes at present...?

I loved this woodland garden!


Yup the woodland garden was my favourite


 

I've never seriously thought of a swimming pool but this one is cool - totally see-through, the bar stools are actually in the pool




Why doesn't my produce ever look as healthy as this...brassica that aren't eaten??!  Looks so lovely sans nibble holes  :)


One of the cubbys for the cubby auction to raise money for needy children





And yet another coop!


Vertiscape are amazing with fabulous products and ideas.  I'd love a green wall!




Beautiful pear

Tulips...bulbs for next Spring...

Love the tree sculptures

Limestone sculpting at work

Just as we were leaving, so was a hot air balloon!

Friday, April 1, 2011

Easter artwork

Hello!

Happy April!  I was greated at work today with practical jokes - ya know, my phone ringing but when I picked it up discovered the handset had been disconnected...that kinda thing...I hope you all had great fun this morning  :)  My little fluffy bok flock enjoyed a warm brekkie of leftover salmon pasta!  They don't quite seem to get jokes so there was little point in trying.

Not very garden, chook or sustainability related at all but...I love looking at the Easter submissions for the Koko Black Easter drawing competition.  I really admire budding artists like these!  I can only do stick figures and maybe a rainbow or two  :)

'The Motherload' - Hayden John Dewar

My favourite! 
Lunar Looting - Daniella Germain

Rabbit Proof Fence - Fail! - Ainslie Wright

Choc-a-Block - Elise Martinson 

Work has been CRAZY lately.  This is me stealing a moment in the sunshine, before heading into another meeting...just my two lonely choccies and me...soon just to be me!  Yum yum! 
No idea how ethical Koko Black are, but these beauties were gifts and I'm not one to say no...so they fit rather well in my tum!  :)


My thoughts are with friends doing the 100km Oxfam Trailwalker tonight!  I helped to coordinate the very first Oxfam event many years ago and it is such an amazing thing to do to raise money for a great cause. I can't believe some teams are finished already!  Superstars!


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