I've just had 2 weeks off work - I didn't go away but I did do lots of things. The most exciting thing I did was a 20m tree climb....

At the bottom of my garden is my veg garden and beyond the veg garden was a tree.  A beautiful paper bark cherry with coppery peeling bark. ...

Yesterday's storm passed through here with very little immediate effect - a few branches down in the street and that was about it.  But ...

Autumn appears to have arrived.  It's not my favourite season.  I do love the colours that it brings, but what I don't like is that ...

It's the time of year when everything is green isn't it?  Everywhere I look in my garden is the bright green of spring. Top Row:...

When I moved in I inherited a very tall tree-like pittosporum, in the centre behind the table in the picture below. before (2008) - does...