Melbourne

Saw a different native seed mix and started checking out each variety in the mix. One looked very familiar. It turns out I’ve had a native iris outside the whole time (it was here when I moved in). TIL I’ve been doing my bit.

The Yates gardening book looked good with one pic of vegetables on the front but from the description might be more geared towards boomers with big landscaped yards and big ornamental plants.

I liked the garden like a Nonno one about growing food but then again it could be one of those books that are about being trendily folksy and telling quaint anecdotes, with a few useful things you really have to dig for. You know what I mean. There has to be a name for that.

I want the birdwatching book and the shitty little binoculars. On days I feel like crap I can creep on the little feathered friends and hopefully one day know what they’re called.

There’s a hanging birdbath at Bunnings to entice them with if I can just work out whether they can easily land on it in the one hangable spot I have.

Edit: Ah. It would need to be cleaned daily to not spread sickness and I don’t think I can handle that.

Also I thought of planting sunflowers - but even if the aggressive creeping grass coming in from the neighbour didn’t choke the seedlings/the whipper snipper didn’t cut them down the seeds are junk food and bad for birds.