MICKEY’S BLOG
In the days before Instagram, Mickey kept a regular blog of snippets from Glenmore House.
You may enjoy looking back through them!
Berrima Garden Fair…
Is there anything more divine than attending a garden fair? Especially one in such a romantic setting as the National Trust's Harper's Mansion c.1835, at Berrima in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. While the weather did its very best to dampen or blow...
Spring concert….
What a day! We were blessed with the most glorious weather...clear skies, sunshine, and a light easterly breeze to keep us cool, to make petals dance, and to prompt our magnificent musicians to peg their sheet music to their stands as the rhapsodic notes they...
Great garlic harvest 2014….
Wow....the little indicator tells me this is blog post no. 500!!! Woohoo! Whoever would have thought? What a lovely post for that milestone to coincide with: the Great Glenmore Garlic Harvest of 2014! I decided late on Sunday afternoon that the task of digging...
Kitchen Gardening weekend…
It was with a slight sense of fear & trepidation that I presented, for the first time, our very own olives at last Saturday's Kitchen Gardening lunch! Not that it's the first time I've ever tried to 'keep' our harvest before, but honestly, the last good...
Poppies two….
I just thought I'd follow up after my last post.....we do indeed now have multi-ruffled pretty poppies and many a spectacular plump bud ready to explode into flower! I must confess though, that I find this loose-petalled beauty to be far more exquisite and elegant....
Beautiful poppies….
Luckily I captured the first poppy before the weather set in (the poor thing is rain-sodden now). Such fleeting beauty is rarely repeated. Some open as single petals while others are deeply ruffled. If you can get hold of a copy of the October issue of Country...
Beautiful poppy….
Luckily I captured the first poppy before the weather set in. The poor thing is rain-sodden now. Such fleeting beauty that is rarely repeated. Some open as single petals while others are deeply ruffled. If you can get hold of a copy of the October issue of...
Spring review….
Spring is galloping away at quite a pace and I'm very aware that I haven't updated these posts as regularly as I'd like (save yesterday's Bird Cow Tree post!)...so I thought I'd write a a very little review for you, just a hint, before I disappear into the next big...
Bird Cow Tree sneak peak….
I say sneak peak because I just didn't take enough snaps (and very much hope the photographer who joined us may allow me to use some of his to show you in coming days). In the meantime, here is a token collection (that I took too hurriedly then felt compelled to...
Spring dinner pickings….
I'm thinking asparagus with a poached egg, wilted pea tips & baby leaf amaranth, scattered with a few baby broad beans for dinner tonight. What do you think? Spring, oh spring delight!
Pure intoxication….
Wherever I roam, the air is simply filled with heady perfume! It's almost dizzying, and accompanies each task with pure joy. I simply can't wait to get up in the mornings! From wisteria heavy with bloom and alive with the drone of bees, to the last trailing...
Still-life morning tea….
Morning tea cakes for spring garden visitors, with some unlikely companions: crabapple blossom & the last of the exquisitely coloured, crinkly kale Redbor.
Food & Words….
What a day of insight and inspiration, at this year's Food & Words at The Mint, on Saturday. Once again, Barbara Sweeney lined up a collection of diverse speakers.....some well known, but others who spend their lives behind the scenes, making things...
Camden Park Open Days….
Do you wonder what surprise awaits, as you wander up the drive....beyond the Jubaeachilensis, the Aloes, Agaves & trailing Pelargoniums? A tantalising glimpse here, beckons to discover what lies beyond .... and you have the rare opportunity to visit the House...
Labyrinth launch….
What a joyous occasion today, when at last Emily Simpson's vision for a Labyrinth for the people of Sydney, came to fruition. The Centennial Park Labyrinth (who's pattern involves the same sacred geometry as that of the magnificent C13th Labyrinth at Chartres...
Weekend rhubarb….
Oh yes...there will be rhubarb for our weekend breakfasts! The supply has been a bit hit & miss these last months - sometimes a wheelbarrow load, other times slim pickings, but this weekend there'll be no shortage of crisp red stems to...
Brussels sprouts….
Really do have the most extraordinary growth habit. And yes, I know the photograph is upside down...for some reason, I took it this way (it seemed amusing at the time....then the light faded and I was determined to eat them with last night's roast chicken, so this...
Spring blossom….
In my absence (of only a few days during daylight hours....) the almond blossom faded away, to be replaced by the blooming of the Manchurian Pear, captured here in early evening light. Things are moving at quite a pace now....the very first wisteria flower opened...
Farewell to the Garden Show…
Well....that was fun....despite the crazy weather! It was terrific to see so many of our regular participants & visitors, and to meet so many more. Thank you all for your kind words about our stand...perhaps it will inspire you to set up your very own potting...
Snippets from the show…
Baby Agave attenuata, pulled from the front courtyard at Glenmore, peek from the drawer of a fabulous 1930's industrial bench from Ici et La. For ages, I've wanted a big metal box of some kind, to contain seed raising mix on my potting bench....and look what I...