“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
I love this quote. It makes me feel so joyful and makes me want to take time and observe even more of the beauty and innocence of this season. How lucky we are here in the Highlands to be enjoying such an idyllic Spring. Day after day of beautiful weather, fields green as green from the rains in September and gentle breezes softly drifting blossom through the streets. Our little garden at The Potting Shed is bursting with colour and each day more loveliness emerges. First the crocus and jonquils, then the tulips which this year have been glorious and now the delphiniums and foxgloves are putting on a spectacular show. We are pleased to be able to demonstrate that even in a concrete courtyard you can create a garden of variety and interest by using pots and barrels to give height and texture. Here are some photos taken this week to share with you our passion for gardening and intense love of Spring. Happy gardening! M x
I’m excited to announce that in addition to our shop in Banyette Street, Bowral, we now have a beautiful new plant gallery at Lydie du Bray’s Antiques on Consignment in Braemar – “The Potting Shed at Lydie’s”. It’s early days, and more stock is arriving daily, but if you call in to Lydie’s super glamorous shop this weekend you will find us in The Walled Garden which is now filled with potted foxgloves and delphiniums, lavenders, geraniums and advanced topiary in buxus, bay, citrus and olive. Inside in the conservatory we’re showcasing big ‘glamour’ plants including massive crassulas, cycads, cyclamens, Pieris and spectacular orchids – all perfect to beautify your home and garden. Follow us on Instagram for lots of images, ideas and updates. Hope to see you soon at The Potting Shed – now at Dirty Jane’s Antique Market in Bowral and Lydie du Bray’s Antiques on Consignment in Braemar. (address below).
The Potting Shed at Lydie’s
Lydie du Bray’s Antiques on Consignment
117 Old Hume Highway
Braemar NSW Australia
Open 10am-5pm (EST) Every day.
One of my favourite songs is Ella Fitzgerald’s “I’ve Got Five Dollars“, recorded the year I was born and just one of many wonderful songs from Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook. Every time I hear it, Ella’s chocolatey voice melting the crazy lyrics into such beautiful rhythm makes me feel good, so this little story appealed to me. Some weeks ago at The Potting Shed I apologised to a lady for giving a handful of five dollar notes as change … it was all I had in the till. She said “no, that’s brilliant .. I love getting five dollar notes. I collect them.” Gathering her goods she continued “You’d be amazed how quickly they add up, then when I have a hundred of them I go and buy something special.” What a great idea I said. And she assured me you don’t even miss the five dollar notes in your wallet, if you take them out and store them in a little box or container. Impressed by the simplicity of the idea, I have started a collection myself, towards a trip to see the famous gardens at Prieuré d’Orsan. Then just last week another customer came in and told me she would cut off her right arm if she could only have the spectacular Turkish water trough that had arrived the day before. “No need”, I laughed. “Just save up your five dollar notes and very soon you’ll be able to buy it … without losing a single arm!” I told her about the other ladies advice and smiling she said it reminded her of her youth in London when everyone would put sixpences into Haigs Dimple Whisky bottles and once full it held exactly forty pounds. A lot of money in those days we agreed. “We could only spend the notes” she said, “because we saved the sixpences for the Haigs Dimple; the pennies for the gas meter and the shillings for the train station.” Off she went chuckling to her husband that she would soon have enough for the water feature .. and did he have any five dollar notes in his pocket!
Even if you have only one five dollar note … we have lots of lovely things you can buy with it at The Potting Shed. Or if you want to save a stack of them, we have some more serious treasures to tempt you!
The Potting Shed 