Along with Elephant's Child, River and others, I am joining in with Sunday Selections.
It has now been repaired but I will guess one of the Metro Tunnel digging machine buckets damaged the portico steel work of this very expensive and posh apartments known as The Domain.
Rose Chong has for decades sold costumes and drag from her shop in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. While she is white Australian, (UK born) her husband wasn't, hence her Asian second name. She is still alive and hopefully well.
The so called professional tram driver, fail. They have blocked a lane of traffic.
Yes, I used to buy clothing at Roger David Menswear.
But I can't remember what London Stores sold. I think it was also menswear.
Spring last year, as the Plane trees were just bursting into leaf.
Just a window display I fancied when I noticed it. I'd love to have the dish at the base of the clock.
A cruise ship departs, taken from my balcony. There aren't many scheduled next summer season and even less the season after.
Perfect exterior maintenance. Just needs a bush or two.
When is bug season? Late summer? More likely early summer.
I visited a German school to buy an advent calendar for Jo. Giving her an advent calendar of some kind is what I have done since she was three, so that would be fourteen years. This year I wanted a traditional one and the easiest one to buy personally was at the German school. It was a short walk from a tram stop. Along the way I passed a tram electric substation for the former Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board.
A very bright and very rampant bougainvillea.
A token amount of tram track in Bourke Street, City, has a special mix of concrete with some sparkly stuff inlaid.
If anyone knows how these vertical gardens are watered and maintained, please mention in comments. I can imagine automatic watering and fertilising, but is a cherry picker needed to trim them? This one look quite lush.
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I have often wondered about the pruning/weeding of those vertical gardens as well. I will watch the comments with interest. They do soften a building though and I like them. I agree with you about the bowl under that clock - having a weakness for glass.
ReplyDeleteEC, unlike a normal garden than can be a bit untidy and still look good, not so for vertical gardens. Funny that you too posted about glass today.
DeleteI find views of the sea irresistible, love the hanging gardens too.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
Alison, I would not like to live too far away from the sea.
DeleteBougainvillea has always been my favourite. I wish it would grow here, I would plant it everywhere.
ReplyDeleteMy guess would be that the high rise vertical garden would have to be pruned from inside? Not a job I fancy anyway.
JayCee, maybe not so much in your part of the world but here, it is just so rampant, and so thorny, he can be hard to control. I think it would be difficult to prune from inside. Modern apartment block windows do not open very wide, for safety reasons.
DeleteThank you for showing me around your town which is in some ways similar to Honolulu and yet unique! God bless Rose Chong! Look at the kaftans offered by my friend, Honolulu designer Sisterface 🌺📢
ReplyDeleteThanks Cloudia. No caftans for me.
DeleteCruising on a beautiful ship would always be my preference but it is very expensive. So watching the ship from your balcony seems a pleasure in the meantime.
ReplyDeleteOn the less beautiful ships Hels, it is now very cheap. It is a pity so few cruise ships are visiting here in the future.
DeleteI like how you run the commentary along each photo. It reads like a graphic novel. The vertical garden uses trickle down water system.
ReplyDeleteThanks Roentare. A graphic novel that jumps all over the place. Yes, I thought that would be the case. Maybe once a year a cherry picker would be needed to tidy it up.
DeleteI have loved bougainvillea since the first moment I saw it. I tried to grow one once but it didn't work.
ReplyDeleteFun60, no, they won't cope with extreme cold and certainly not frosts in the growing season, which is quite long here.
DeleteDrip irrigation makes sense. That vertical garden is striking.
ReplyDeleteDebby, it does, although how does it drain? You wouldn't want dirty water dripping down walls.
DeleteI love the bougainvillea and then the way the plants seem to drip down the walls in that vertical garden
ReplyDeleteThanks Bob. I will see if I can find more bougainvillea in the summer.
DeleteThere used to be a Policeman whom we called Cherry Picker years ago, he had a very long hocked nose. That cherry picker reminded me of him.
ReplyDeletePhotos are lovely, and why hardly any cruise ships?
Oh Margaret, while that is funny, it is also quite cruel. I've just checked and there is a total boycott of Station Pier by ships. I think it is a combination of the Suez Canal threat at the changeover of cruise seasons and an increase in port fees at Station Pier. It wasn't much of an increase though.
DeleteThe bouganvillea is beautiful. There aren't many left around this area, some of the older houses and gardens have been razed for "lego block" townhouses. You get some lovely "bird's eye" shots from your balcony. I wonder if the cruise ship method of holidaying might be winding down, with many people that I know, and probably others, not wanting to get on one of those giant floating "petri dishes".
ReplyDeleteRiver, I would guess that is because they are highish maintenance to keep in control, and they are thorny beasts to cut back. I really don't know about the cruising but check my comment to Margaret above. I am not sure how many are travelling to from Sydney now.
DeleteApparently they are coming to Adelaide instead. I'll have to keep my ears open and get down there with my camera when one is due in. The train from the city goes all the way to Outer Harbor.
DeleteI recently heard something about the Outer Harbour train line? An improvement in some way I think.
DeleteThe cruise ships certainly are River. https://cruisedig.com/ports/adelaide-australia
DeleteI like sparkly concrete and vertical gardens - always looking for the brightness in life.
ReplyDeleteAnd hopefully finding it JB.
DeleteKeep sparkling where ever you are.
ReplyDeleteNice one, TP.
DeleteIn my experience, vertical gardens seldom live long enough to need trimming, but that one does indeed look lush. Maybe someone rappels down the building?
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a colorful little bug, and yes, a nice glass dish!
Steve, yes that would be a way of maintaining the garden. I've seen one go really bad but it was redone and looks ok now.
DeleteI'd take that dish too, Andrew. The vertical gardens don't do well here.
ReplyDeletePat, I am sure it is about committing to maintaining them.
DeleteDo you have binoculars, Andrew, the better to spy on, oops I meant see folks from far away, or watch a cruise ship closer up, etc?
ReplyDeleteStrayer, I do have binoculars but generally I take a photo, load it to the desktop and I can enlarge it there to its full size.
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