Asteraceae and Buttery Iris
Glorious glorious Iris - Only the one came up but it had two blossoms. I really hope the bulb survives until next year. Has anyone suggestions how to make sure it doesn't rot in the ground? I finally found my camera cable so can at last begin sharing images.
I spent this morning weeding the native garden out the front. In the next few days I need to get a load of newspaper and some bark mulch to ensure the onion weed doesn't immediately spring up in the disturbed soil. Once it' prettied up a little I'll take photographs.
I love Spud-haul season. Fresh from the ground and delicious. They glow so rich a colour I just want to bite into them raw.
At the moment I have more spud plant's just poking their heads up, lazy housewife beans, mixed italian dried beans and sweetcorn on it's way up.
And here she is - Aster. She often sleeps in an S-Bend shape - with her left haunch and her right shoulder touching the ground. She's almost more eel than dog. She's a sweetheart but has started a irritating habit of sunning herself lying stretched out on my little potato sprouts and garlic plantings.
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Aster.
On the illustration front - My design was chosen for a tender to paint a anniversary mural at a local hospital.
I'll be working on that come December. I've put in my application to do my Masters degree.
Over the next few months I'll be continuing to teach kids workshops on botanical illustration, assist with another adult workshop on the same theme and am now beginning to gain steam on the 16+ illustrations I am doing for an exhibition at Maitland Gallery in February.
I'm also darting off to Japan for my first visit ever - Only a short one but I'll be photographing and sketching like a thing posessed!
So much to do!