Orange bell flowers

More spring loveliness for you to enjoy

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Missing Yr Advocate

yr building not get #hornsbyadvocate ? Maybe cos there's whole shopping trolley full of them near vacant lot next to polaris building

Poinsettias are out !

The loveliness of red poinsettia against a bright blue spring sky

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I Miss the magnolias

Copyright Julie Vaux 2013

Every year I take far too many shots of the local magnolias but they have such a short season ... enjoy !

Thursday is Market Day

Go early if you can the kale and spinach tend to go quickly and stock up on blood oranges as their short season will end soon!

Accursed Cupboard

Will no one rid me of this accursed cupboard?

ITS FREE HORNSBY PICKUP 

it has 2 bottom drawers stands about 6ft high

Why is it free cos its got to be carried up a flight of stairs into a lift and down to a carpark but its FREE! 

I can't lift it myself and don't  have a car or van and while I'ld love to donate it to a local charity most of them don't do pickups?

I also have some other freebies and some old furniture thats much less bulky available. Plus I just don't like this cupboard. 

The relative I inherited this from liked cupboards with closed doors.

As a result of this I had to spend weeks sorting through stuff crammed into cupboards that was unlabelled.

For some strange reason I now want to switch and move  all my remaining cupboards and property and books and clothes  into or onto shelves  and semi transparent containers all clearly categorized and labelled.

So who wants a cupboard? FREE PICKUP HORNSBY 

 please ? sob? whimper ...

Unfashionable Roses

Remember these?

This plant is a rose geranium related however distantly to geraniums like these below.  While potted geraniums with large blooms are still popular the "rose" geraniums in pots or as small trees and shrubs seem to be out of fashion possibly because their greatest strength is also their weakness; they grow quickly from cuttings but hence need pruning.

And why call it a rose geranium?

If you have one pick up a leaf and snap it open. In the rose geraniums and other members of the pelargonium group there are essential oils and the leaves can smell of mint or rose or other aromas.

I was going to get rid or prune back drasticly  most of my geraniums but I'm going to try to sell or swap my cuttings and prunings.

Going back to the top image this one has gone "leggy". I however don't want the long stem look. I'm trying to slowly and gently coax this one into a better shape with cuttings here and there. 

If anyone wants some cuttings to start their own plants let me know. I'ld love to swap for  some extra empty pots!

This younger plant looks a bit straggly but its a cutting in the same pot as another geranium cutting and after they flower unless some one buys this I'll prune again for a better shape using the cuttings to start new plants. You can buy or swap for this one too!  Make me an offer!

Dwarf Blueberries

Plant Bug at Mt. Colah has Dwarf Blueberries in stock. Well hopefully still in stock  and if not they have lotsa of other beautiful spring plants available!


They're on the OLD Pacific Highway highway next to a bus stop and Fruit world.

Common Ground at Hornsby markets

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Orchid Cuttings

ORCHID CUTTINGS AVAILABLE

Mine is just budding now and this image shows the flowers in full bud.

This orchid isnt tropical but is weather hardy and can survive outdoors and as the image shows has both aerial and soil roots. Take a cutting leave it in water or wet soil for a few days and it will root. I can show you prior cuttings as proof and you can buy these or cuttings I'm just striking roots on or take a cutting from the mother plant. Interested?  I'll also be advertising these on Gumtree too along with other plants.