An Orchid Show...

Hello Dhaaarlings...

I recently took the Empress along to have a look at our local Orchid Clubs Annual Show
Both of us were so excited about getting out for the day we both forgot to take our cameras...
Dispite the lack of pictures of the beautiful displays...

I in my usual fashion I came home sporting four new specimens for the fernery...
 At under $20 each who could resist?...

Two Pink Cymbidiums

One Brown Cymbidium....

That I hope to be much darker than this Light Browny Green one that lives with me already...

 and... as you can see is happily flowering...

The new one is sporting a flower spike which I am eagerly awating to open... so that I can see what colour it truly is.... the waiting is like Christmas...

And...Finally....

  

This Creamy White with a Pale Lemon Center...

Again a Cymbidium.

I also have several huge pots of Cymbidiums that I have inherited from old Uncles and Grandparents

And although the pots that they are in are only small the plants themselves have grown to about 4 foot in diameter!

They are the original form of Cymbidiums I think...

They have a pale green/yellow flower with burgundy spots in their centres

This particular one started out at my Nan's in an old buscuit tin...
35 years ago...
It is now pot-bound and every year has less and less flower spikes

I think that it is about time to take to them all with an axe and re-pot them...

The Axe was suggested by the man at the orchid show

(I guess he knew what he was talking about as he'd won first prize for every plant he had entered in the show)...

So I figure I'll give the axe a go...

I just love Spring... Don't You?...

Princess' Patch.... An Update....

Hello Dhaarlings

Remember this?...

It was the beginnings of a potato patch

Prior to preparation and planting....

Well now it's looking like this...

The other day I was telling Boxer I'd been busy making Marmalade and Strawberry Jam after she had been busy making "Sugar Hits"

So here are some Photos of the finished Product

And the silver beet is taking off at a great rate of knots

As is the Broccoli...

And the lettuce and sno peas...

The lettuce will need thinning out very soon...

Dont you just love Spring....?



Busy Little Bees....

Hello Dhaarlings...

 Spring is in the air...

And Princess is so happy so see the sunshine returning...

The wattles are starting to burst into brilliant gold

Can you see the busy bee?

And the busy little bees...

Embiggerize to see the bees...

Are working their busy little arses off...