Irish Stone Walls

Well I have found a really interesting book. From Book Depository.

I will now be able to learn how to build a wall around areas in the garden and create a more interesting place, without drastically changing anything. There is a prefabricated block I can source, from Sydney, which looks easy to use, but it will work out very expensive if I make say 3 oval beds. I have to find out if there is any local material I can use. There was a two day workshop through Permaculture in Sydney last month that looked a good hands-on for beginners thingy, but I missed that. I am sure someone will have an idea where to start. Jim thinks I am a bit nuts, but I would really like to do this.

Look at the little chocolate hellebore flowers. They are growing under the shade of a big salvia near one of the cherry trees.

 

I was away this weekend and got two apple blossom quinces on the way home. They only grow to about one and a half metres, but the pink blossom looks just like apple blossom, and it produces real quinces. I have planted them near the apples, within sight of the kitchen window, as I am hoping the blossoms are spectacular next year. Have dug in worms and compost along with chicken manure and seaweed fertilizer.

There are so many lemons on the lemon tree that need picked ( something is peeling and eating them from the top). I thought I would make up the lemon syrup needed for sorbet, using some pectin to reduce the amount of sugar needed. That can than be frozen, and made up in the icecream maker as required. That way none of the lemons are wasted...

 

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