Faeries in the Bega Garden


Amazing things happen in the Bega garden.
Miri has created two wonderful faeries,
who know how to fly. Eli said that the grass
was soft enough to land on.

ROI the King Parrot

A voracious consumer of wild bird-seed, Roi wakes us up with very loud peeps. He wants breakfast for the whole hareem even before we have coffee. Even Zoe listens very attentively.

Spot the brown butterfly!

Just below the orchard is a bluberry ash,
with hundreds of brown butterflies dancing
around.Occasionally they land.
Double click on the picture to find the one
I managed to photograph today. In autumn
these pink frilled bells will become deep
blue berries. This is a native tree, and
fortunately very drought tolerant.
 

The orchard at Tingiringi

It may not look very big, but I've just spent four days netting plums, pears, apples, quince and peach trees. We call it the Taj Mahal x 12 of Parma Road. Julie calls them the ghosts of Parma Road. All of this is necessary because of the bower birds, galahs, white cockatoos, king parrots, crimson rosellas, eastern rosellas and assorted other small birds who do not consume the fruit, but take bites from every one. I have used 50 metres of polypipe, 400 pegs, 100 bricks, 20 old pairs of tights and 40 metres of bird netting. You can see Vernon's bottle watering system on the right.





 

A Goanna Article for Vernon.

Hi Vernie,

This article was in the SMH this morning. Was it news to you? It certainly appears to have been a surprise to most people - experts included.

To maximise the picture, so you can read the article, double click on it.

What do you think of the other pictures on the blog? 

Another great Llewie photo, with his pocket people
pram.

Eddie's friend Haydn took this photo in the garden at Parma last weekend. We thought the butterfy was a nice touch.

Eli John practises golf on his fourth birthday, October 2005. He has a damaged thumb; hence the odd method of grasping the club.












A date cake for a star golfer at our Kalaru house.

A great day at the cafe and in the water at Tathra.
It was freezing. Llewellyn blew out his candles,
played in the sand with buckets and opened his presents. Eddie took these photos and I think you'll agree they are great!

Hi there from Jean

This is my very first Blog posting, so it's kind of a trial run. I've used the photo of my favourite hellebores in the Parma garden, because I spend so much time there. I began this blogging enterprise because I wanted to share some of our photos with you in a way that saved your e-mail download time. So here goes.

First I want to show you some photos of Llewellyn's birthday at Tathra's beach cafe. He's wearing his blue South Seas shirt and hat, and I think he looks pretty special.