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The Garden by the Bush Diary

Hi!  My name is Patrick.  I live in New Zealand.  Very simply, this website contains notes and observations about what happens when I work in my garden or on my house, and what I find when I go into the Bush which starts at the top of my garden.

It also includes notes and observations about things that have happened, or are happening, in New Zealand.  These are things which I think non-New Zealanders will find interesting.  I think they will be interesting because they are interesting to me, and I'm a foreigner.

For more information, click here: What is "The Garden by The Bush Diary" about?  (Last updated 12th August 2011).
Otherwise, pick a month and find out what happened... is happening... might happen... in and around the Garden.

Table of Contents

  • Sunsets 2010-2011  (Last updated 3rd June 2011) - Gallery of best sunsets, 2010 - 2011.
  • May 2012  (Last updated 14th May 2012) - Wintery, a warmer, drier bathroom, duck hunting season starts, super-moon, criminal caught by criminal, Australian fly invader, window repairs, found two more trees, emergencies and Americans, Wellington cycle way.
  • April 2012  (Last updated 3rd May 2012) - first wood off the hill, pear season is over, cicadas, weather review, recycle disappointment, Rena half sinks, building the composter, Wellington Tree Weta, nobody died, potential first boat people, penguins, roadnames, compost, neighbours are leaving, projects for the winter, ventillation started, neighbour's punga, bags of compost, too much pak choy, number 15 is for sale, heat transfer system installed, "cottage vege gardening", bamboo matchstick blinds, hunting, open house.
  • March 2012  (Last updated 30th March 2012) - weather prophesy for autumn, "weather bomb", marathon cooking, American chilli recipe, bottling garlic, trees felled, sanding again, pears all harvested, cutting up first fallen tree, The Hobbit, beardless, bee exports, harvesting, more tree cutting, bad weather, Venus and Jupiter, leaf-fall, composter plans, Hobbit-time, berry harvesting, grapes, slips, more tree cutting.
  • February 2012  (Last updated 29th February 2012) - gale warning, autumn weather prophesy, Waitangi Day, new greenhouse, firewood hunting, another 'big log', path surfacing, wasps, arborist, pear sauce weekend, greenhouse ventilation, kiwifruit sprouting, honeysuckle, painting and scraping at Helen's, weeding, passionvine hoppers, earthquake anniversary, gale-proofing the greenhouse, making liquid soap, gate hinges, pergola maintenance, greenhouse wiring, the cat sat on the post, the return of the fungus, leapers.
  • January 2012  (Last updated 1st February 2012) - strawberries, workman's legs, painting done, how to make soil, painting done, honeysuckle planting, MV Rena breaks apart, balloon crash, gales, pergola gale-strengthening, hacking back the jungle, hacked (a bit), fenced, winter firewood, whale stranding, death of a suburb, The Hobbit casting call, trees in NZ, gale-proof pergola, Hobbit casting chaos, going "over the hill", Auckland's population, pear harvesting starts.
  • 2011 - Table of Contents for 2011.
  • 2010 - Table of Contents for 2010.

Every month, a new page.
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