drink more wine & grow more plants

Straight from the cool hunter - very cool indeed.

Photos: the cool hunter

succulent tea

While drooling over the Flora Grubb website (if you haven't seen it, you will want to) I found some lovely teacups planted with succulents. Tab and I decided to give them a go - easy really, just find some old tea cups (mine are from ebay), fill with some succulent potting mix, stick them in and see how it goes. You should probably drill a hole in the bottom for drainage but at the risk of cracking the cup, I think if you're careful not to over water then it should be ok. I also added some white stones on the top for a finished look. Hours of amusement in our house.

potting up

adding the finishing touches

all done - Mine on the left, Tab's on the right (which might need a bit of help)

complete tea set

taste test - ewww!

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...

new look

Not enough time doing work + too much time on blog = a new succulent look! Hope you like it.

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....