Phew! It’s been a slow start to the gardening year for your overwhelmed Girl Reporter, who has been struggling with a prolonged flare-up of the old ankyspondydoodah. Regular viewers will recall that last year we […]
Greetings gardeners! Welcome to your intrepid gardening Girl Reporter’s first filing from our secret island location in Hong Kong. It’s a year since the current Mr Baxter and I shut the gate for the last […]
I was pleased to accept a term of gardening leave from my blogging duties when my alter ego Maria Spackman decided to take over the captain’s chair, but you can’t keep a good (and original!) […]
The first kill is the hardest. It gets easier after that. Since my last filing from the Baxter backyard the itchy cow tree has been terminated with extreme prejudice. When we raised our flag at […]
Dad always said those freezing Grenfell winters convinced him early on that the best place to live was within sight of a banana tree. So it was pretty special to finally put in two banana […]
I regret to inform you, Gentle Reader, that there’s been a killing done. It happened one evening, shortly after my previous filing from a Traditional Aussie Backyard, in which Your Girl Reporter crowed about the […]
Regular viewers will know that I’m a city girl and a stranger to the traditional Aussie backyard. I’m also these days the custodian of a quarter acre block laid out as a sub-tropical paradise. Join […]
I’m a city girl as you know and a stranger to the traditional Aussie backyard. All that changed 12 months ago when the current Mr Baxter and I did the grown up thing and bought […]
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