Summer Joys

Summer being summer, the weather has been filled with clouds and rain with more expected. The joys of Melbourne weather to say the least; certainly giving help in keeping the garden well watered, just not so great if a day out is wanted.

Summer being the time of certain foods, it is also the time of year where blackberries are fruiting. As annoying as blackberries are as a plant and as a problem within Australia, it is nice to be able to find some blackberry plants with ripe fruit on it. Free is free. Just the fun of finding blackberry plants now if fruit is wanted.

Summer Time

As a kid I personally didn’t have much, the thing I got on the very first Easter I lived through was a teddy bear. Now, eighteen years later this very teddy bear has a green jumper made of wool created by my mother and still has its red and green hat that stays very much put on his right ear.

I came to call this teddy bear by the name of Bear and what always has interested me is that despite being a gift from my father the first Easter I was around to see, it has a hat of red and green, colours of Christmas.
And I have to say, the very teddy bear I was given on an Easter day many years ago serves to me a good reminder of Christmas and those hot summer days many have to deal with.

Now it is getting to hotter days and I am already not liking the heat. I do like the fact that the plants I am trying to grow are getting plenty of sunlight and plenty of rain, that is an upside at least. A number of seedlings I am trying to grow are doing great, a few that appears to be catnip that I had no luck growing last year.