Open Gardens

This weekend was our local open gardens. 

We had a wander through several very pretty and interesting gardens.

Old miners cottage garden filled with drought tolerant plants.

This indoor outdoor garden has been 50 years in the making and was a first time participant.

She was delighted with the response and wondered why she hadn't done it before.

A lovely day out, I purchased a few plants and didn't permanently borrow any, for a change! 

Thrift-a-Long

The op shop goddess didn't smile upon me this week, no treats or treasures to be found.

Instead I thought I would show you what has happened with the tea pots that have been coming to live with me.

There is a narrow strip between our house, the fence and next door, it's gets no sun in winter and full sun in summer. I have planted succulents in the tea pots and if they get too hot I can always move them in summer.

There are a lot of brown and white tea pots in the world, just like buttons. 

Joining in with Sue    

Orange

It's last day of July and another beautiful day with plenty of sunshine.

Usually this time of year our garden doesn't have alot of colour, but today I noticed orange out there in the sunshine.

I have also noticed the days are getting slightly longer, yippeee!

Garden

I love peeking into other peoples gardens, seeing what and how they grow their plants.

With a splash of colour.

I love pottering in the garden and never seem to spend as much time out there as I would like.

 I am one of those who throw plants in anywhere and they are generally left to their own devices, for this reason I don't spend a lot of money on plants and much prefer the "borrow a cutting" method.

To everyone's delight I didn't "permanently borrow" anything from this garden.