When Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels I wonder had he traveled directly from California – the land of giants (Brobdingnag) to Hong Kong – the land of miniatures (Lilliput). In Hong Kong everything is scaled down in size except for
Author: Byddi Lee
Lost for words
When I do the Hong Kong thing I don’t really go for the Hong Kong Island experience or visit all the touristy spots and see the anglicized version of life in that part of the world. Oh no, I go
Humming and Ha-ing
This week, I finally got around to changing the hummingbird feeder, shamed into it, in part by reading that it should be cleaned every week and in part by the humming birds themselves, who would zip down to it then
Tears in the Garden
Another beautiful flower has blossomed for eternity in the Garden of Heaven. My husband’s mother passed away at the beginning of this week. She lived in Hong Kong, and my heart broke watching my husband’s anguish over not being able
Pulling the chicks and other babes…
Just when you think you have your day nicely planned, Mother Nature sees fit to throw a spanner in the works. Monday, I was all geared up for a day at the computer, setting my world to rights – well,
We have lift off!
It is with great irony that I submit the following photo to June’s Picture This Photo Contest over at Gardening Gone Wild. Though this guy is our sworn enemy, I submitted this shot, from The Peas Treaty post because I
Going Potty for Bloom Day!
I just couldn’t resist it! I wanted flowers like I would have in Ireland – I used to keep containers on the window sills of my apartment there – the closest thing I had to a garden for a while
Mulch ado about nothing
I had to laugh when I read through my usual blogs this morning. So many posts seemed to tie in with what I was going to write about today. I’ve been completely obsessing about the garden this week – I
Living on a prayer
Our Sixth Form (Senior year in high school equivalent in the US) anthem was Bon Jovi’s “Living On a Prayer”. The lyric that really caught me was “Whoa, we’re half-way the-re Whoa-oh, living on a pray-er” We were
Guest Garden #3 – The art of gardening.
This garden is to gardeners what art galleries are to art lovers. Rossella and Jon hosted this months garden club under the beautiful Modesto Ash that provides a graceful centrepiece for their native/drought tolerant garden. The sunken fire pit surrounded