More Photos for Lesley

At Laurie and Joyce Begge's

Today I came across some more spring colour, better than the photos of the previous post.

In Fay Gerber's garden

I have picked dogwood blossom in Fay Gerber's for more than twenty five years. Her daughter Lindy now lives there with partner Ian. Today I pruned the large reticulata camellia, 'Captain Rawes', (behind the orange mollis in the foreground) as a return favour. The two rows of dogwoods at the farm, from which most of our dogwood blossom comes from, are progeny of the dogwoods at Fay's which we dug up. They had layered into new plants or suckers as Fay called them. We used to do a bit of gardening at Fay's. Her father started this garden about seventy or eighty years ago. I did a post about Fay some years ago, when I found her in the garden after she fell from her ride on mower. It turned out she had a crack in her femur. She married a Gerber but was a Carter and inherited the Emerald property when her dad died. Fay lives in Toorak, I haven't seen her for a couple of years, she must be getting on on years. I love the lady.

Lindy lent me her camera to take these shots. It had a zoom lens. I should have zoomed in on things. The lilac, purple in the background, was stunning but doesn't show up in this photo. We picked all our lilac at the farm as I did at home so couldn't take a photo. Lindy picked most of the waratahs and took them to Fay yesterday. Dogwood doesn't really photograph that well from a distance but it's a most beautiful flower up close. Lindy's partner Ian put the photos on a 'stick' for me. The truth is photography is not a subject at which I am skilled.