kitchen garden week

This week is Kitchen Garden Week. The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation has been running successfully since 2001 and is now in 700 schools! Kitchen Garden Week celebrates a collaboration with GPT shopping centres enabling the programme to reach a greater number of people. Right now there are 7 GPT Kitchen Gardens around Australia and we are lucky enough to be just down the road from the one in Norton Street Plaza.

The rooftop Kitchen Garden is open to everyone, every day and is a beautiful use of what would normally be, wasted space. We visited the garden this morning and spent close to an hour touching, smelling & learning about all the edible plants and herbs. There are also organised cooking & gardening workshops, perfect timing for the school holidays. Sure makes a trip to Coles a bit more interesting!

sunday @ the garden centre

This afternoon we popped down to the local garden centre and is was absolutely buzzing. Everyone had trolleys full of pansies, jasmine, lavender, pots & hanging baskets. To distract Tab from picking all the flowers in the whole shop! I had to buy her a red butterfly - it did the trick. Our only purchase was a few succulents for a project we will be posting later in the week. But, I'll be back...

here comes the sun

Its been the wettest July in 10 years (or something like that), but finally the sun is out. This is a good thing - we don't have to put on gumboots to go to the park, I can get some washing dry, and my succulents finally have a chance to dry out and bask in the sunlight. Tab and I did a bit of pottering today and she came up with some very creative pot plant ideas. I actually think the sticks look very cool - don't know about the 'rock plants' though. Tab keeps checking to see if anything has shot up but not even Dora is going to make them grow.
So many garden ideas for spring, I can feel it just around the corner....