Flowers for Nan's Birthday Competition

It's Nan's Birthday today and to celebrate I thought we would give her some flowers and one lucky follower an Blanket Buddie Owl of their choice! All you need to do is correctly identify these 12 flowers that are currently blooming in Nan's Garden. I will give you a few clues to help you along the way.

All you need to do is send us an email at info@nansgarden.com.au with your 12 answers and we can choose a winner.

Competition will close 9am September 12th.

If more than one person correctly identifies the flowers, we will choose the winner from those entries using random number generator.
All correct entries will receive a little something though!Photo 1: A type of berry

Photo 2: A type of vegetable although most think of it as more of a herb.

Photo 3: A herb

Photo 4: A herb with a citrus twist!

Photo 5: A herb

Photo 6: A stone fruit

Photo 7: A type of berry

Photo 8: A type of vegetable

Photo 9: A type of Berry

Photo 10: a Citrus

Photo 11: A vegetable commonly used in Asian cooking

Photo 12: What happens when you leave a certain white vegetable too long!

Soaking Saturday!

What to do on a wet Saturday. Start with a bit of Egg Drawing. Hubby's effort on the left and the finished product by little miss S! I was particularly impressed with the eyebrashes (eyebrows) and facial hair - he even had ears.

Then a lovely day at the 5th Ave Markets - Thanks ladies for a wonderful day.

Popcorn and a Peebo and Dagwood Dvd.

And who can beat jumping in Muddy puddles in a new raincoat. (Poor hubby is out shoveling dirt!)

A walk in Nan's Garden this morning. Spring is certainly getting ready to bloom!

Things have been sadly neglected in Nan's Garden lately. This past week or so we have been trying hard to update the website but I forgot how being pregnant slows you down! Just a little reminder to let you know we are still here. Here are some of the things growing in Nan's Garden at the moment.

The garden, just like our blog has been a little neglected lately. As some of you may already know, one half of the Nan's garden team is expecting (not nan...... I don't think she or I could cope with that eventuality!) so I have been a little slack with updates. But it is the start of June and time to plant all those wintery goodies.
Suptropical and Tropical gardens love.......
Seedlings into the garden.
Chinese cabbage
cauliflower
celery
chives
asparagus

Seeds into the garden
broad beans
climbing beans
dwarf beans
beetroot
carrot
cucumber
garlic
lettuce
melon
peas
seed potatoes
pumpkin
radish
rhubarb crowns
shallots
sweet potato
zucchini

Cooler places love.....
Seedlings into the garden.
cauliflower
celery
leek
silverbeet
artichoke
asparagus


Seeds into the garden
broad beans
lettuce
melon
peas
seed potatoes
rhubarb crowns


Its also time to plant deciduous tress and prune existing trees.

Time to refresh

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year break. This year our tradition Christmas had a small face-lift; still spent with wonderful family but in slightly different locations. A bit more travel but nice for a change. This year we continued our tradition of baking a Christmas goody basket for the adults in our family group. Thanks to the ladies at Details Details for the packaging!


It is also time to refresh the garden. With all the rain and more rain and more rain, most things in the vege garden are looking a little tired or at worst rotten. This morning, before the rain, we spent time pulling out celery, trimming rhubarb, picking eggplant and planting the heads of our seeded lettuces. It is now time to choose some new things to plant in the garden for the coming months. If you are in the subtropical and tropical areas, some great things to plant in the garden are
SEEDLINGS
broccoli - YUM
brussel sprouts - Nan's favourite ( although I'm not sure why - each to their own Nan)
cabbage
artichoke - but don't talk to me about it as ours hasn't flowered in 2 1/2 years!

SEEDS
climbing beans
cucumber
lettuce - check
sweetcorn
sweet potato - remind me to tell you a great way to cook this which is soooooooo easy and we learnt in China.

This year we would like to make some changes in Nan's Garden too. We would love to bring you products that you have been searching for or dreaming about. We would love to hear your product ideas. What you want, what you love and even what you don't like! Please comment below, on facebook or email us at info@nansgarden.com. One lucky person will even receive their product suggestion for free!

Off to Sydney we go

Although I am beginning to believe that someone doesn't want me to get to Sydney, we are jetting off tomorrow to set up for the Baby and Toddler Show. Hopefully!
It has been a really interesting experience preparing for something so large. It was impossible to bring all the clothes with us so we are bringing what we can and you can order the other items on the day and we will ship them to you for free! All of our dresses and overalls we are making to your measurements as we know little ones don't always fit into nice 1, 2, 3 size brackets! As we are so new to this process, we hope we can answer all your questions and requests but please be patient with us as we find our way. We are just so excited to be coming and visiting some of our Sydney fans! Please be sure to come and let us know if you already know who we are. We will be having a competition running for the 4 days to win a $150 voucher to spend in our online store. All you need to do is visit us at the stall, fill in your name and email address and you go in the draw. How easy is that! The winner will be drawn at random when we finish the show and return to Brissy.

If you would like to come and visit us at the stall here is some money you can bring with you! simply print out this post and bring it along with you to receive $10 off for the day. Only one voucher per customer per day.

We look forward to meeting you all there!