NEWS/EVENTS

May 8, 2020

News from the Moble Garden – Old Dogs & Children

Old dogs and children, and watermelon wine (Tom T Hall). I cannot vouch for the watermelon wine, though imagine it would be a very pretty colour and very lethal to

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May 1, 2020

News from the Moble Garden – Operation De-fence

A few weeks ago, I found a white Crepe Myrtle jammed in beside a hedge; planted carelessly without thought or foresight. The last few times I have done me hedgin’,

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April 25, 2020

News from the Moble Garden – Veggie Updates

I took a photograph yesterday, which will probably not make the cut, of a very pleasing little corner of the garden which took me by surprise this week. The late

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April 17, 2020

News from the Moble Garden – Biodiversity

Moble this morning is an impressionist painting. The early morning light is diffused, another layer of softness added with a little cloud cover. As far as your eye can see,

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April 10, 2020

News from the Moble Garden – Cosmos Blooms

My garden here is full of friends, I can chat to them as I stroll around, exclaim to them how they have grown, without offending. Our gardens are also filled

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April 3, 2020

News from the Moble Garden – Cuttings, potting and pilates

For the second week in a row I bring news from a wet garden; 12 mm overnight with a lightning and thunder show that would have them swooning on the

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March 27, 2020

News from the Moble Garden – Growing Vegetables & Other Pursuits

How wonderful to wake up this morning (indeed) to the sound of the overshot running. The creek running over the overshot dam, a bullfrog chorus, a trumpet of brolgas and

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March 20, 2020

News from the Moble Garden – One Year On

Just off the telephone from Mrs. Brown who is sending me an Albertine Rose. You may remember Mrs. Brown, as she is a not infrequent visitor to these pages. Mrs.

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March 13, 2020

News from the Moble Garden – Butterflies and Budgies

And all of a sudden, our lives are filled with butterflies and budgies. This is not a euphemism for some sort of higher consciousness, I have not meditated myself away

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March 6, 2020

News from the Moble Garden – Rainy Days

On awaking yesterday morning, I realised that our roof is actually more of a colander than a protective layer against the elements. Having slept the sleep of angels with the

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