summer in Melbourne

The Ravages of Summer

February 2, 2014 By Sarah in Garden, General Tags: drought, garden, heatwave, summer, summer in Melbourne

Our summer has been really weird this year….either cooler then it should be, or waaaayyy hotter then it should be…no nice balmy summer days and night. Its like Mother Nature is having fun turning the heating switch up to full blast every couple of weeks and watching us all wilt…humans, animals and plants… And now […]

The Heat is On!

January 16, 2014 By Sarah in General Tags: heat wave, summer, summer in Melbourne

After weeks of cool weather that was more like Autumn, even Winter, Mother Nature is finally turning up the heat…and has gone totally the other way! For my readers who are shivering in freezing cold temperatures, in southern Australia we are now experiencing a heat wave with temperatures up into the 40s…Celsius! That is around […]