Cate's Diary

Sorry Cate the slimming world thread is mine . I haven't checked it recently. You can delete it if you like . Don't think anyone else is doing SW.

Fern repotting sounds good. I'm on geraniums today hopefully.
 
Hi, Amy. I think I was having lunch when you posted in between mulching. The GK's are at the in-between age between being little kids & feeling so grown up, but we get along well with them & find common ground. I think we roll our eyes at them as much as they do us :)
Hi, Marsia. Happy Sunday to you too. I think we both had a productive, active day xo
Hi, LaMa. It was a much better day than just staying at home.
Hi, Petal. Please don't apologise. I didn't mean it that way. Your slimming world thread is a genuine thread. They are good!!! Spam is bad, genuine threads are good. I dug ferns up out of the ground in the bush & transplanted them into the garden. We would have thousands and thousands of them. I take them from the track usually. Geraniums are cheerful things. My Mum used to love them.
Time to go! G is washing dishes & we are heading into town. More gardening later :)
 
Thousands of ferns sound so lovely! I have started a little fern garden and just love the shapes of the fronds unfurling and the whole shape of the plants. Glad you are having a good time gardening - me too! I am used to my kid treating me as an equal, so it's funny hanging out with her friends who don't talk to me much anymore, and probably internally roll their eyes. The whole generation gap thing is so interesting! Hope you had a nice time in town and a good rest of your visit with the GKs!
 
I love geraniums - mostly because they feel to me such humble, forgiving flowers, in the same way that I see silver beet as "forgiving" - I suppose I mean they continue to grow no matter how crummy a gardener I am! :) And they grow easily, they bloom cheerily, they have no pretensions - the ones I know - to being a flower to be put in a vase or in a bouquet. Good old geraniums!
And I love ferns, too - I agree with Marsia about the fascination of their forms, and their whole way of uncurling and growing. Your garden with thousands of them must be amazing - and a wonderful place to sit and meditate.
 
I love flowers growing in the garden rather than cut flowers in the house. I seldom have anymore but prefer potted plants . Love the sounds of the ferns growing . It is particularly spectacular. Enjoy your day Cate.
 
Flowers in a vase depress me a bit, watching them die like that when they're so beautiful an vibrant to begin with. I love ferns though: I always expect small dinosaurs to come around the corner to nibble on them.
 
Hi, Rob (bensanon). Thank you. We don't get paid anything, but it feels good to be able to delete spam & ban spammers. It helps keep the forum a good space for all of us.
Hi, Marsia- Ferns are a beautiful thing. Parrots think they are delicious. I love that you have a fernery. What type of ferns do you have? The generation gap is hilarious! I find it really entertaining.
Hi, Amy. We used to make fun of our Mum for her love of geraniums (& her love of classical music ), but they are really cheerful & you are right- humble & forgiving. I now have 2 hanging baskets of them on the South side of our house & they look bright & cheerful for most of the year. I never bring cut flowers inside though. I do have lots of indoor plants.
Hi, Petal. I'm the same. I really don't like cut flowers & enjoy seeing them out in the garden. I had a lovely day yesterday & spent most of it outside.
Hi, LaMa. I agree. I think it's sad to see flowers in vases, but I seem to be the odd one out most of the time with most women with that. Ferns are so primaeval & ancient, but I have never imagined nibbling dinosaurs when I have been looking at them. Lately I have been thinking of whether there are any lurking leeches. :eek: I got side-tracked looking for images of dinosaurs eating ferns & found this. It's beautiful & weird at the same time :)
I'll add it to my next post as it keeps appearing in the middle of my typing!
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My first reaction: oh, beautiful - magical!

My next reaction: don't put your hand in to find out! (Sorry - I'm more used to dryland areas, where.. well, you know what could live in a hollow log almost anywhere else in Australia.)

Third reply: Is this where the little Tasmanian Devil lives? Oh... now I'm back to magical! :) That would be so amazing!
 
Hi, Jack. Thank you. It does look misty or foggy, but that was just the light seeping through.
Hi, Amy. There's a strong chance of either a wallaby, pademelon. possum, wombat or snakes, but you can peek through a much bigger opening & have a look. I would never just poke my arm in :eek: I would love it if a Tassie Devil made it's home there. We have heard them in the bush before & had a parent/child comb outside a bedroom window once screeching & having a tussle over a dead bird. Nature- I love it!
I have been planting little native seeds today into small pots-
Arthropodium strictum 'Chocolate Lily'
Bulbine glauca 'Rock Lily'
&
Kennedia prostrata 'Running Postman'
I already had done about 10 of
Callistemon citrinus 'Crimson Bottlebrush'
 
I wish more people would grow native plants in their gardens; so much better for the insects! Also: glorious pictures. I think a gnome might live in that log.
 
Hi, Rob- I almost pinch myself sometimes. I know I'm really lucky to live here.

Hi, LaMa. We keep getting more bees each year, which is good, but I'm also planting more bee attracting plants. My rosemary bush attracts the most. I'll have to plant more, although the native animals seem to love it too. I have moved it so many times & now it's in a pot on the decking.

Hi, 101- My story would be about a native animal that lives in there. One of my favourite kids books was Wombat Stew. I used to love reading it out to my kids when they were little.
Thank you. I'm starting to get embarrassed about the spam thing. I'm only relatively new to moderating & Tru has been doing most of it for ages. I was a bit overwhelmed with everything last week I think & am back to feeling ok again.

I'm off to golf again today & hopefully will get around ok. I have been very physical & doing lots of gardening & wood gathering & have not been feeling spaced out or dizzy. Eating breakfast again has me feeling physically good again & not doing IF has taken my focus away from food. I had better get moving. My washing machine is nagging me!
 
Hey Spam Killer, I agree with LaMa planting native plants is best. I looked yours up, they appear to be nice semi-wild yard plants. I like the name "running postman" must be a story there.

On our place it is too dry for much interesting to grow, but just up the mountain, literally less than a mile away it is wetter and a bit greener. That is where the native plants we have come from. Some only need water to get started, others need an ongoing supply. We have a lot of native sunflowers in the yard, they can grow without water but don't get very big, with water ours are a jungle. Don't know the species, apparently there are 5 different ones in Utah (Sunflowers Archives - Wild About Utah), we just got the seeds from wild ones growing in the yard and spread them. Great plants, the insects and birds love them, now they are dead and brown but we will leave them up all winter; the birds will continue to mine the seeds, and hide in them. No wombats here though, nothing so exotic.
 
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