2 Weeks till Spring Fever. 08/18/2010
 I am having a lovely day, feet up on the couch, wearing my favourite cardigan sweaters looking out over my garden and reading inspirational verse about springtime. It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain   Reg and I made a couple of interesting stops as we drove from Goulburn Valley through to Gippsland. I saw a part of the Warburton Trail, and I would love to walk that, some time I pulled over near a nursery at Woori Yallock partly due to the fact that it had a large enough pull over area for a car and caravan, was the ‘Country Gardeners Nursery’ on Warburton Highway, Woori Yallock. The lovely colour harmonies and displays made an interesting walk. They had a herb section with Fennel and Ginger and other ingredients that are in colonoxy and other herbal therapies. This blog is more a visual feast of plant groupings and some humorous garden signs I saw in what was a pleasant break in a long day’s drive than about anything. I never feel I need any reason to stop and enjoy flowering and fragrant herbal plants. This nursery is open 7 days a week. Melways map ref 287 B9       Easter Sunday, in the Garden. 04/04/2010
 Reg and I had a great day together, preparing for our six-moth caravan tour, which begins in just a few days time. I dug the last of the potatoes and pulled out the remaining tomato bushes. Reg has tied back all the climbers, the many climbing roses and the wisteria, grape, clematis and pelargonium’s and I had him prune the excessive canes from the climbing roses. I dug out a rapidly multiplying iris clump, divided the iris into 6 generous size clumps and I planted them where I had dug out the potatoes. I have anemones and ranunculus to plant and they are predicting rain on Tuesday so I will probably go and plant them as soon as the rain softens the soil. I will need to prune all my bush and standard roses, just as they are coming into their autumn flush of flowers. I will just be brave, do it, and give a bunch of roses away to someone who will love them and look forward to the spring display of roses to come home to and hope to have the time to paint them this year.    I have had two lovely days of bush walking in the Grampians in Victoria and while the official wild flower season is from winter to summer with springtime being the peak time, even now, in early autumn I am seeing a lot of wildflowers and an amazing amount of regeneration following the devastating bush fires in this area, in 2006.  The Grampians region is one of Australia’s richest and most diverse flora areas, It is home to more than one third of the State’s flora with over 100o varieties of wildflowers, some exclusive to this area. The photos are of a few that I saw today and they include the Grampians pink heath, and some everlastings and a Correa.  Here is a photo of an area on the slopes of Mt William, where I hope to go this week. This photo was taken, three weeks after the bush fires showing even the rocks split by the heat of the hot burn. An area eestimated to be roughly 50% of the entire Grampians National Park, essentially the entire eastern half, including a large area of mixed bush land and farmland on the flats around the eastern and north-eastern part of the ranges was burnt out.  The greatest joy is to see how well the forests are regenerating after the destruction in 2006. Photos below were taken, today, on my walk in the Wonderland range, through an area, previously burnt out by fire.          What is the colour of your bra? 01/11/2010
 For two days, many of my friends were updating the Facebook Status with a colour name, and nothing else, leavin the men, guessing what it was all about.    | Kathy Shell on Facebook Kathy Shell
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