APPLES & JAM

Soft toy birds at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Tree with birds hanging from its branches at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Soft toy birds at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Permablitz team taking a guided tour of the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Timber crate shelves at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Close up of timber crate shelves at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Shelves and tree branches at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Birdcage hung from the ceiling at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Swan and paper decorations at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Succulent indoor plants in painted tin cans at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Felt party hats at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Blackboard messages at the Apples & Jam Playhouse, South Melbourne Commons

Theatre stage at the South Melbourne Commons

Shadows on the floor at the South Melbourne Commons

The Little Vegie Path Crate Veggie gardens at the South Melbourne Commons

 

When we got home we collapsed in a weary heap, that is I collapsed, Dylan decided he had to finish making a plywood box for our straw bales to live in. He is mad you know. Today I ticked off my second Permablitz and Dylan his third. It was at the South Melbourne Commons, a complete overhaul of the gardens there that has been chugging along for a couple of years. More about the Blitz later, after lunch we went for a tour of the Commons building. Inside the lovely old red brick building was hiding a treasure. The Apples & Jam Playhouse, where children’s parties and playgroups are held. Little patchwork birds hung from the lichen covered branches of a tree, swans dived between paper baubles hanging from the ceiling and toadstools sprouted from the floor towering over our heads. It was all very gorgeous and magical so I couldn’t resist putting some photos up. Creating a little world for children to play in must just be such a lovely job, you can just be so free and creative.

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LITTLE HELPERS – MARCH IN THE GARDEN

Making a new guerrilla garden in the nature strip, Melbourne, Australia

Little girl planting marigold seeds in guerrilla garden, Melbourne, Australia

Extended nature strip guerrilla garden, Melbourne, Australia

Little next door neight bour "helping" in the garden, Melbourne, Australia

Little next door neighbour planting out nature strip garden, Melbourne, Australia

Chickens digging in the driveway

Isa Brown hen digging by a sage plant

Freshly laid eggs and flowering roquette

Baked eggs in puff pastry with fetta and roquette from recipe in Delicious Magazine

Potato plant and orange French petite marigold

Seed potato in the ground

Seedlings from the Digger's Club

Zucchini vine near the no-dig garden

Timber palette planter box on wheels

Seedling trays on our bedroom window sill

Oriental, white and Australian garlic from the Digger's Club

Digger's Sunshine sunflowers

Zucchini Tromboncino climbing up washing line

 

 

We are slowly extending our garden into the unused corners of the garden. The chickens have helped us weed the driveway  and the little girls next door helped me plant out a second nature strip garden. I found a lovely Easter reciped for baked eggs in Delicious Magazine and it was lovely to be able to use our own eggs and roquette, but not our own fetta…yet. Hehe, I don’t think I’ll be able to get a goat just yet.

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