Sunday Selections #615

 


Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. 

A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. 

Nothing rude or vulgar though.

And we don't mind at all if overseas bloggers care to join us.

The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.

these are the new recycled trolleys at my local Woolworths supermarket, the writing says, "pushing for a greener future"

on the handle it says, "You're pushing 152 milk bottles", that would be recycled plastic bottles, a good use for them in my opinion.

here we have a lovely fence which is weathering beautifully

this one appears to be custom made

you just don't see designs like this "on the shelf"

nice wheels on a very nice car

Murrayas were blooming everywhere the day I took these photos, they're very pretty, but I had to hold my breath as I passed them, they have that heavy, heady perfume which is not good for me. 

beautiful pink ruffles peeping over the gate

and the gate itself

the next few photos are from my previous home, all the fruit trees I was growing in what I called my "Fruit Forest"

on the left at the front is my hoya, possibly not the same one I have now, top right hand corner is a pale pink mesembryanthemum, this is also where I had the giant honeysuckle vine with blossoms five inches long.

under the hoya are several pots of "gollum" sitting on a larger pot with a peach tree. on the right is a frangipani stem and behind that are two apple trees, one a granny-smith, the other a royal gala.

from the other end is this cherub which I still have, sitting in the pot of my cherry tree, also sitting in there are two pots with baby "ponytail palms".  I got a kilo of cherries from that one tree one year just in time for Christmas.

this is my dwarf nectarine tree which produced only one fruit that year and then I moved house.

the two plum trees produced plenty, one was a satsuma and the other another red fleshed plum that I can't remember the name of. Both delicious.

I grew a miniature rockmelon (canteloupe) vine which produce one tennis-ball sized fruit, here it is only half grown

across the yard along the fence I had a grapevine, sultana grapes, which didn't manage to produce anything before I had to leave. 

All these plants were donated to the Community Gardens when I knew I couldn't bring them with me. (not enough space here where I am now)

finishing again with the twins.

I don't yet have any new photos of them, so there won't be a picture of them next week.


Comments

  1. Ooh, lovely orchard and beautiful flowers. Fresh fruit picked form the tree is unbeatable.

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    1. jabblog; mostly dwarf trees, and the whole section under a shadecloth covered frame. I agree about fruits fresh from the tree.

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  2. You must miss that garden badly.
    Some gorgeous photos this week, finishing with a stunner of the twins.

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    1. Elephant's Child; I do miss that garden, but moving couldn't be avoided. isn't that last photo a joy to look at?

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  3. Lots of amazing produce! It's a shame you couldn't bring the plants with you, but hopefully they're still contributing to your community.

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    1. Steve Reed; I'm sure the plants are still going strong somewhere. When I came to inspect my current home I knew right away I couldn't bring any plants with me. I did bring one Jade cutting which outgrew its pot and lives on now as several plants across my "patch".

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  4. You really had a nice assortment of edibles. Was thoughtful of you to donate them. Never seen a small cantaloupe before. Would like to try that.

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    1. Arkansas Patti; I got seeds of the miniature canteloupe from "The Diggers Club", an Australian gardening club which sells by catalogue, I was a member for a while and had four seasonal catalogues per year. They specialise in heritage varieties as well as regular plants of all kinds. Their spring bulbs selection is huge!

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  5. My best wishes to you and your family for the Festive Season, River. Take good care...be happy and may life treat you well.....be relaxed. Special cuddles to lovely Lady Lola.

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    1. Lee; thank you and the same to you and Shama. Lola has recently been showing a sign of her age, very occasionally a small hesitation before jumping up to the table. Next year I will put a small stool there as a halfway point for her.

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  6. I've seen those green plastic supermarket trolleys but we only use a basket in Woolworths as it is not where we do our main shopping, so I didn't know about them.
    There are some very nice looking car wheels now, and the one if the photo is excellent.
    The wrought iron? fence is very nice but I am not keen on the base it has been installed on.
    It is hard to say goodbye to plants when you downsize, but you have the memories and the photos to remind you.

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    1. Andrew; I rescued you from Spam Jail. I do a fair amount of shopping at Woolies, but by that I mean I go daily for my newspaper and if I need milk or cat food I'll get that too. If I'm buying more important stuff like eggs, fruit and veg, I'll cross the road to Foodland because the quality is better.

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    2. That fence seems to be custom cut steel or galvanised iron.

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    1. Joanne; very happy babies who I will be seeing in person next week.

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  8. The plum looks good enough to eat!

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    1. Mike; the plum was one of many and they were all delicious. I remember now the name of the second variety was Mariposa. I had to buy two trees because they need a pollinator.

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  9. It's lovely that you donated all those to a community garden, i hope they are thriving.

    The girls are beautiful. Maybe you'll be sent new pictures by next week.

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    1. messymimi; I hope the plants are all thriving too. I will be going to see the girls next week, bearing many gifts and my camera!

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  10. Wow, you're strong, pushing 152 milk bottles! Those are some happy babies, confident they'll be picked up after posing for their photo session!

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    1. Val; I don't use those trolleys, I have my own tiny one that I trundle back and forth. i believe they would be the same weight as the old metal ones though. They babies are very happy and always get picked up.

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  11. Yay for Wollies! Are the trolleys still for free?
    And to beautiful fences.I have never seen Murrayas. I think. At our caravan park in Madeley/Perth one lady has loads of flowers too, but none smelled.
    Oh, a cherry tree! Nothing better than that! My parents had two and we just picked them and munched away. Sadly they were old and my Brother had to bring both down. A very sad moment.

    I love the idea of the Community Gardens!
    Here we had for a couple of years a trolley filled with earth and plants (just tomatoes and such, of course) and really only few people took just one or two so we all could enjoy.
    Sad you have the same problem with not enough space.
    The twins are cute as ever. On the pictures. The other day there was a baby... boy how can such volume come out of such a tiny body, the whole supermarket heard it, LOL.

    Again blogger played bad games with me, hence I am late...

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    1. Iris; yes the trolleys are still free, I don't think any places now have the coin ones. I loved my cherry tree, the fruit was large crisp and juicy, the variety was named Stella and it is self-pollinating.
      I haven't been to our Community Gardens in a long time.
      The twins are gorgeous, but I have heard Ana cry and just crying is fine but then she squeals very high and loud and you have to block your ears! I haven't heard them get really loud yet, but one day I probably will.

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  12. I don't think there are any more Woolworths in the UK (we used to call them "Woolies".

    :o)

    Cheers

    PM

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    1. Plasman; we call them Woolies too. What do you have now? Safeway? Aldi?

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