Spring in Annie’s Garden..

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Yes, Spring has arrived Down Under… even though we’ve still had some cold rainy days, the weather is warming – bulbs have popped up and blossom is out… it’s certainly a very pretty time of year!

As restrictions for us eased a bit at the start of last week and we were allowed to meet people outside, DD and I decided to go and have a picnic in our friend Annie’s garden…

I told Annie that I’d make a post specially for Chookyblue.. although we didn’t end up getting any photos of ourselves or of Annie’s quilts because we weren’t allowed in the house… but I took lots of pics of the garden which is where Annie spends every minute of her waking hours if she can 🙂

Annie has 5 acres and just loves her garden. I love it too… but I don’t have the knowledge or desire to maintain a garden like that! Thankfully she loves when we visit and always gives us a tour of what is new… like this.. mirror mirror on a tree….

There are many special things to see in her garden.. love this .. so nice and rustic…

She also likes to have mini gardens in the middle of her big garden…. this is “Little Holland”, and the tulips are just starting to bloom:

And these are already blooming.. aren’t they pretty?

I really think she should be charging admission… just not to us, we’re almost family 🙂

I had a little chat with Cocky…

I said – Hello Cocky

He said – Hello Cocky

I said – Hello Cocky

and he said – Hello Cocky…

This intelligent conversation went on for a while. Until I said goodbye and he screeched at me until I disappeared from view…. Sorry Cocky, we had a picnic to get to..

Annie joined us after she had just pulled this weed, and watered that plant, and checked on another mini garden, and cut some flowers…….. 🙂

But we had a lovely outdoor, socially distanced picnic, which was nice after being in lock down for almost 6 weeks…

Two days after that, the restrictions changed again, and we are now allowed to visit inside – but only in one household bubble… which of course is my parents, so we won’t be heading out to Annie’s for a while again…

I also visited Granny J’s chookies… now I haven’t told you this yet, but we had a tragedy in our backyard last month… the fox got my chookies 🙁 It was a very sad day… I had forgotten to lock them up, and that was that. I won’t go into details.

My Dad was so sweet, he went right out and bought me two pullets, but I said I couldn’t have them until we fox proof better. So Annie’s mum, Granny J, said she’d look after them for me until after lock down and Dad helps me build a fox proof run.

You can’t see them really well, but the white chookie and the smaller brown one are mine..

I gave them the crusts from the picnic sandwich.. and they were quite happy.

So that was our little afternoon out… enjoying the beautiful spring day and all the colors in Annie’s garden…

I hope those of you who are gardeners enjoyed this post…. and I will be back soon with some sewing updates….

Chookyblue, Annie says “hi”!