Hello and welcome

Thanks for popping in!

This isn't quite ready to be an active blog yet, but it's getting there.

I live and garden in a mountainous sub-tropical area in South East Queensland, Australia.

The garden features slopes. Lots of slopes. It also features diabolical red clay. This clay is my nemesis but that's for another post.

I've been told our area roughly equates to US zone 11B but I'm not sure how accurately the zoning system transfers across. I think it may be like Florida. We have short, dry winters and long (October - April) wet summers. In recent years though the climate has been changing and is more extreme, with summers of floods followed by summers of drought. It's unpredictable and makes planting choices difficult. 

I love all the desert plants that hate my conditions. It's always the way. I'm coming around to some of the sub-tropical beauties, especially bromeliads. I don't think I'll ever cope with crotons though. I'm also learning which succulent and dry-loving plants may cope with heavy rain at times. 

I chose this blog name on a whim because I wanted to get started, and I spend a lot of time in my pyjamas. Is there any better attire for gardening? It's often how a gardening adventure unfolds. You wander outside in the morning, cup of tea in hand, just to have a look.

You pick up the secateurs, snip a few bits and pieces. Then you pick up the trowel...and that cutting you propagated recently. It'll only take a minute...

Next thing you know, you're covered in dirt after indulging in a delightfully productive bout of pyjama gardening.

I love it, and I'm guessing, so do you!