Bernieh's Blog archive

Introducing some of Australia's native orchids.

After purchasing my first native orchid this year, I've been doing a bit or research...

Wildflowers in bloom during our spring downunder.

This is a snapshot of various wildflowers that will be blooming now out in the wild-mainly...

Progress update on the new outdoor garden beds - slowly, slowly getting there!

Back in April (during our autumn) I arrived home from YET another (these are hubbie's...

A spring gardening weekend in northern Oz.

Here in my northern corner of Oz it's spring-but as we approach mid-spring the temperatures...

Duststorm hits downunder.

This past week over here in Oz we have experienced an amazing dust storm-the country's...

Two of my favourite native northern Oz winter flowering trees - Cochospermum gillivraei and Bombax ceiba leiocarpum

Even though spring has just begun I thought I would share photos of two great native...

My Garden in flower - Winter 2009

Winter here in my part of northern Oz is the middle of the 'dry' season and most...

Green, green ... Everywhere is green!

It has to be said that the predominant colour in my garden for most of the year is...

Slowly, slowly the new garden beds take shape.

Update: We've added another wall and broken up the large garden bed into two beds-much...

Tale of Two Cockatoos.

Came home from work during the work and spotted these two on the staircase railing....

Planning the new garden beds (continuing on from last blog).

Already starting ordering new plants for my new garden beds-so exciting. My hubbie...

Another weekend gardening day in northern Oz - towards the end of winter.

As I've mentioned before winter is the middle of the driest time of our year. We...