Chookie's Back Yard

The Echium looks wonderful, but I need to find out how to care for it after flowering.  There seem to be two schools: prune it hard, and ...

Yesterday, the boys came rushing in to tell me that there was a mouse in the chook food bucket.  The bucket was nearly empty and the poor mo...

A lot has happened, but not much in the back yard. Rain and family activities have cut my gardening back a trifle. Then I looked up and saw...

Source: abeachcottage.com via Chookie on Pinterest While wandering the blogosphere I came across a Personal Style Bootcamp by F...

On Power   New South Wales' electricity supply is generated by black coal power stations. It has been calculated that the average...

Down the side of my driveway is a gap to the fence of no more than 15cm, as deep as the slab.  The gap had nothing in it at all except w...

I popped into Bunnings the other day and grabbed a few little things to add to my garden: Then it started to rain, which stopped me from pla...