Let me introduce myself ...

[arillady]

Welcome Ray. Australia is large - want to pinpoint where you are living and gardening?

[Ray]

Hi All and thanks for the welcome.
Hi Maggiepie,with a user name like that their would have to be a Aussie connection,hope it's not a connection to a certain footy team,if it is we are enemies
Hi arillady,Colac Victoria and i will attend to my profile.
Hi luc, may be outnumbered but the quality is there
bye Ray

[Carol Shaw]

Ray - did you know you can use the signature box to tell us all where you live? Makes it easier with an international community 

[Lesley Cox]

Hi Ray, I think the Aussies outnumber the Kiwis now on the Forum and we have only a couple of South Africans and just one, I think, from Argentina. But hey, that's OK. All the best rugby teams in the world  are represented here. 

[David Shaw]

Do we have any Fijians, Lesley?

[Lesley Cox]

A below the belt comment David, though it was the Kenyans who did for us in the 7s. Seriously though, and I may be quite wrong here, while NZ Maoris do grow vegetable crops for the kitchen, I don't know of a single Maori who grows ornamentals for their own sake. When I had a quite decent mail order list - about 800 recipients many of whom I knew - there was only one Maori name on it and she was the wife of a quarter blooded Maori. So far as Fiji and other islanders are concerned, I supposed when you are surrounded by orchids, hibiscus and many other gorgeous tropical plants, there's not much need to be a gardener.

[Ray]

Hi Carol,done that and it works bye Ray

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Ray,
if you get up to the Dandenongs or North of Mt Macedon we should plan to catch up.
Our AGS Vic Group meets in Olinda on the 2nd Saturday of each month, bu not April due to the Holiday Weekend.
cheers
fermi

[Giles]

I hope this doesn't seem too much of an ego-trip, but people sometimes ask me how I grow my plants, and I thought some photos might help.
My main interest used to be this sort of thing:

[Giles]

I moved here about 10 yrs ago.
Gardening here is tough. I get full sun all day, and am fully exposed to the wind.
I can kill a primula here in 2 hours in the Summer.

[Giles]

My garden is undergoing some changes:
My asiatic primulas live in a side alley. I've cleared the rest of the garden over the past few years.

[Giles]

I like sowing seeds, growing primulas and daphnes.

[Giles]

My next big thing is to build a bog garden.
I've got all the ingredients now, peat blocks, sand, grit and compost  - so watch this space......


Special thanks to all those who have sent me articles, catalogues, seeds and plants over the past year.
Giles

[Paul T]

Nice tour Giles.  So much space!!!!! 

[maggiepie]

Giles, I have never seen sweet peas with such long stems, I can almost smell them from here.
You live in a beautiful area, I hope you will post step by step pics of your bog garden when you start.
The daphnes are beautiful, I can only imagine what it smells like when you walk into your greenhouse 
Do you have another pic of the garden with the roses and the stone fence?
I'd like to see all of it.