Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Guest Speakers
As the leaves begin to tarnish and deepen with autumn colour, the garden resembles India Flint’s ‘random windfall cloth’. There are only 3 spaces left for the Botanical Alchemy Workshop on Wednesday June 5. Be quick before its too...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
There may not be vast quantities, but this week has seen me collecting a ramekin dish each day, of the most plump, perfect, delicious raspberries you can imagine! Each one to be savoured on its own….and the smell of even just a few is almost...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
A collection of dark beauties filled the day’s basket: a big handful of the mustard leaf red elk, rosemary, thyme, a dozen or so black cherry tomatoes and a bunch of leaf amaranth – this last one the result of impulsive weeding/foraging while there was...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
Rather funny to find myself pottering about buildings of historic significance twice in the same week, but I do enjoy early Australian colonial buildings – and this collection, at Belgenny Farm (not far from here), has some of the earliest. While I was...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
I thoroughly enjoyed a wander about Throsby Park at Moss Vale on Sunday – yet another excellent restoration project by the dynamic Historic Houses Trust. While the house itself is pretty as a gingerbread, I always seem to be besotted with the domestic workings...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
The Collector’s Plant Fair: it’s on again tomorrow at The Hawkesbury Race Club, Clarendon (near Richmond) – no more getting bogged at Bilpin! www.collectorsplantfair.com
