Until I started visiting the the Blue Mountains regularly I didn’t realise that there is always a plant species in flower all year round in the mountains.  October/start of November the Rhododendrons are flowering.  And mid to late November the bottlebrushes flower.  The first 2 photos are the bottlebrushes in the back garden, the neighbours across the road, and finally our new bottlebrushes which...

There was no way I could dig the Rhododendron out to move it so the wall in this section of the front garden had to stay. I had to re-build the side wall and dig out. These are the photo’s and time-lapse from the re-build and new...

The end of October, start of November is a great time to be in the Blue Mountains.  The rhododendrons are flowering.  The red and dark purple plants are the first to flower, followed by the rest. Our Rhododendron at Piccolo flowered this week with beautiful light purple flowers, and loads of them. It’s the first year in 3 years it has flowered after we...

Piccolo’s bedroom got a make over this week. We finally found well priced vintage lights whilst at a weekend wedding in Bowral.  The vintage bulbs are from Bunnings who have a large range of these style bulbs. We are very happy with the out come once we attached them to art décor brackets. ps Bowral has loads of well priced vintage/retro antique shops and is...

Once the trees were removed we were able to start re-designing the front garden. It started with creating a flat area for the lawn at the top.  This was done using pine sleeper to create a retaining wall from the old tree stump.  Down and down to the fence was dug out to make it a gradual slope.  Here we have planted all natives....

Finished – 16th July 2013 Bringing the northern England art of dry stone walls to the Blue Mountains.  After many years, probably close to 100 years the dry stone wall across the front of the house had finally given up.  It was time to repair it.  It took three goes to repair.  First I completed the right side, second the left end and half...