shiukopuppy's Blog

I have a little mango growing in my garden.. It may not make it to full size, but it is still an inspiration!

 Last weekend we went to the local native nursery and bought some more plants: banksia, wattle and a native grass. I took over my ex-onion bed and planted them there. Although I'm going to leave this desperate and unloved lot within the year, I wanted to leave some more drought tolerant native plants for the birds to enjoy.

This weekend, we were in Sydney and checked out a nursery there to see what plants we could grow next year on our balcony. To my excitement they had dwarf banana trees and lychee trees! ! My dreams of a tropical balcony will come true very soon! ^_^ Above is one of the natives I nurtured when it finally bloomed.

I found a photo from my first garden in 2003.. it was a window sill garden! I was growing mizuna, mitsuba, komatsuna and some succulent plants. I had a new Japanese cookbook and had to grow these vegetables because they were unavailable in the shops. Finding the seed was a challenge.

These days you can get mizuna, mibuna, tatsoi and pak choi at the nurseries which is good. I still have to grow my own gai laan, vietnamese mint and choy sum. We grow lemongrass, coriander and kaffir limes at home because they are expensive at the vegetable shop.

Anyway now I'm inspired so I'm going to go to the nurseries and buy seedlings and I think I'll cook some Thai and Japanese this week! :)