I had a very nice surprise this week when I received this beautiful bouquet of flowers along with a lovely thank you card. It is so lovely when people take the time to say thanks – I was truly surprised and appreciative. So I’ve been enjoying these lovely flowers all week.

Now we’ve had some really hot weather here this week along with a few very windy thunderstorms. So I’ve been making sure my new pot plants were watered & protected with some good results.

We love perino tomatos and they are very expensive – a luxury really at $2.50 – $4.00 a small punnet. Well my garden plan is to replace as much bought food as I can with home grown food so I cut some tomatos in half and planted then in the punnets they came in – we’ll see how they go.

My compost bins arrived!  Here we are putting them together. They are on a stand so that they can be tumbled. They cost $179 at Bunnings.  I wanted something easy to use, where I wouldn’t have to do a lot of digging and protected from animals. Now I just need to start filling them with scraps.

My lemon tree is covered in flowers just two weeks after repotting & feeding it!  I love the fragrance of the flowers as I go in and out the door during the day.

…  my Thai Basil burst into flower overnight…

The pot of mint has just gone gangbusters! This is it after I have cut it back and been picking leaves off it to make mint tea almost every day this week. I just tear 4-5 leaves up in the bottom of a cup, add hot water and let it sit for a while -tastes just beautiful!  ….  now I want to grow even more herbs that I can make herbal tea from…

Each morning we’ve either walked or I’ve pruned bushes in the (overgrown) garden. Its so nice to be walking again and it does help me keep more upbeat during the day. I’ll end with a pic of  yesterdays sunrise…