Rainfall this week : 61MM 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Enjoying another weekend off (yes you read that correctly, another one 🤪) we had the pleasure of spending Saturday with our lovely friends Charles and Ashleigh visiting two open gardens in Tenterfield. Perfect timing after receiving some lovely much needed rainfall through the week. I’m not really a gardener as such and I definitely haven’t got the greenest thumb but I do try my hardest and I do enjoy pottering about our garden watching things surprisingly grow. ( I have managed to kill a few plants over the years 🥴 ) Whilst I have never envisioned planning, designing and growing a huge garden around our house myself, I was very interested in researching what plants grow well in our very unpredictable climate.
Both gardens were designed and built by the same landscape gardener Carolyn Robinson. Glenrock Gardens was originally designed by Carolyn before she sold it around 2016 to move to Eagles Bluff full time. We had previously visited Glenrock a few years ago and thought it would be interesting to see it again and then head over to Carolyn’s current property. Whilst Glenrock is a lovely large garden with some beautiful big watercourses and some amazing old growth trees, we all felt that the garden has lost a little of its gloss. The old homestead itself is beautiful and the design of the landscape is clever in the way Carolyn has created different areas with different types of plants. Unfortunately as we have been in drought this year the dams were almost empty which is always sad to see. Hopefully after the rain that we have received in the last couple of days has helped to fill them up.
Eagles Bluff located on the Bluff river is a truly magical place. Surrounded by hills and with the river wrapping itself around the property it’s like a scene right out of a movie set. Carolyn has created a wonderful five acre garden around the house with garden rooms, places to sit in the shade, native plants, ponds, cherry blossoms, eucalypts, ornamental plants, terraces and a croquet garden. What an incredibly clever designer she is. With views from every aspect and a tremendous variety of birds it was a truly remarkable place to spend the afternoon.
Waking up to a much wetter and lush property this morning was just amazing. I know compared to a lot of other towns 61MM of rain doesn’t sound like that much. But for us it is game changing. The grass is green and growing, the ponds in the creek are starting to fill up and the big dam has water in it again👏. Whilst we need much more we are super grateful and happy to have received the rain we did. Fingers crossed for more to come. Thank you Mother Nature.
In between the rain we have made a little more progress on the house. It does become a little muddy and slippery once wet at the moment. The front entrance is finished with a new lintel on the front to help strengthen it for our large entry doors. And Jason has installed quite a bit of the booker rod to tie in the top plate of the frame to the slab. Weather permitting over the next few days will see us start the cyclone strapping across the roof.
During the rain we have also been planting in more of our tube stock around the front paddock heading towards the road. In years to come we should have a brightly coloured wattle grove and a few eucalypts to provide shade for the birds. Yesterday we were those crazy people out throwing fertiliser pellets around all of the established trees whilst it was pouring rain. I think they will love us for it though and all of the tube stock are looking great now they are in the ground. Everything has just loved the rain. What a difference it makes. All of my flowers are dancing🌸🌺🌻.
Well I totally missed taking a sunset photograph this week. Hopefully I remember next week🥴…Until then😊…
