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Garden: A place where plants are grown for pleasure
Curator: from Latin: one who cares, from curare, to care for

And so the frosts arrive. I haven't dipped my toes

And so the frosts arrive. I haven't dipped my toes in yet, must look out those woolly socks! I've found some great ones I stock up on each year, soft and cosy Australian wool that reach all the way to my knees. I mean really, I'm shocked each year how many ankle sock wearers get around town baring their blue and blotchy ankles. Perhaps the same people too embarrassed to use an umbrella when it rains?
Each to their own, I'll stick with the marshmallowy socks that keep my wintry legs well under wraps.

We've had weeks of glorious autumn days, then the

We've had weeks of glorious autumn days, then the day the bus load of guests from @rossgardentours arrived for their garden/ studio tour yesterday it was brisk enough to freeze our socks off! The usual morning tea on the verandah was aborted, the living room and this, our everday mud/boot room, quickly converted to house guests and serve tea and cake, and not a muddy boot in sight.
@orangefoodweek always seems to turn on the weather.
Thankyou to my gorgeous friends who came to serve the deliciousness, and to my superstar queen-of-high-tea aunt @posyofviolets for supplying enough sublime treats, vintage china and hand-made tea-cosied teapots to feed a busload...literally!
Ross Garden Tours we love having you, so humbled to be included in your fabulous itinerary again.♡♡♡

The studio ready for a visit tomorrow from @rossga

The studio ready for a visit tomorrow from @rossgardentours. At least it's cosy, we could well be huddling here to escape the forecast chill!

It was impossible to resist grabbing the camera th

It was impossible to resist grabbing the camera this evening, hard to do it justice though I tried....keep swiping left, sound on. Magical!! The light, the rain, the birds. No filters, just the landscape being mindbogglingly delicious. More in stories...♡♡♡

This little paper harvest will pop up soon @corner

This little paper harvest will pop up soon @cornerstoregallery in Orange, as soon as I can scoot it it into town. Peas, mushrooms and spring onions, all made from paper, just in time for @orangefoodweek ...not at all nutritious, but hopefully a different kind of delicious!
Our local Corner Store Gallery has a fantastic collection of works from both emerging and established artists across the country, and gallery owner Madi is brilliant at keeping followers up to date with new artists and available works. To find out when this piece will be available, you can follow along @cornerstoregallery and sign up for the mailing list while you're there.

There's something soft and velvety about autumn li

There's something soft and velvety about autumn light, don't you think? It's a gentle light, embracing. Autumn brings a stillness in a way, an exhale after the busyness of summer. It's the season that sits down for a moment with a cup of tea, and calls us to do the same.
I hope you can find that moment today!🤍

It's less than three weeks til the Fungi x Botanic

It's less than three weeks til the Fungi x Botanica exhibition opens at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, and I'm so excited to be included among the wonderful artists selected for this prestigious show.
I'll have six paper sculpture works in the exhibition, all celebrating the extraordinary world of fungi. It's been an intricate process creating them and doing the subject justice, but I think the fungi and I got there in the end, we're good pals now!
Stay tuned over coming weeks to see a snippet of them all, and pop the details in your diary (all there in image 2).
An art exhibition in a garden...my kind of bliss!
@foundationandfriends @rbgsydney