Wrenschovations » garden

The home office. Also: garden.

Steve — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:33:21 +0000

I was in a bit of a rut with work and with my workspace specifically, so a lot of researching and experimenting, I decided to ditch my old set-up and get some new stuff.
Still a work in progress (need to get boards back up, set cable tidy thing, etc) but:

I am very happy with it! It feels nice to work on.
I’m on a bit of a zen-type kick: trying to simplify things a lot, trying to get rid of stuff. It is… soothing.

In other, much greener, news: garden!
The keurboom is shooting up all of a sudden: it’s topping 2m at the moment.

The succulent bed, and the garden in general, has also asploded (note photo assist from Meep):

Looking good in the garden… :)

Washing Stones and Reflect-y glass

Steve — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:33:13 +0000

Say allo to the aloe(s) in the barrow :D :

(Notice the very clean stones on the ground)

Latest addition to the office – glass to be used as whiteboard-y thing:

To follow, maybe: photo behind it.

Pretty!

Steve — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:37:42 +0000

Flowers!
In the front garden.

Garden updates

Steve — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:29:42 +0000

Oops!
Took these photos at least a week ago, but things have been a bit mental around here what with new floors and ceiling insulation and new curtains.
In time-honoured teaser style I bring you photos of none of this but instead: plants! (Pics of awsome dark red cinema curtains and stuff to follow)

Kitchen succulent thingies:

(Blue) Feet and sheep:

Tail tail plant (At Rest and In Action)

Nutterbut!

Last but not least: Birdcage. In tree. with Catnip in.

Forgotten fig and Washer of Dishes

Steve — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:15:36 +0000

Oops, forgot to shoot the fig:

It’s only ickle, but it’s got loads of figlings.

On Saturday morning we heralded the arrival of the Dish Washing Fairy:

Long may it live in our house.

Plants, Benches, Plants, a shower, Plants.

Steve — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:33:29 +0000

Plants! Loads of them. New ones.

Ambassador Kosh. Hallway plant extraordinaire:

Ficus. Was unhappy in the front garden, so we put it in a red thing. Now it happy :) .

Frangipani. Came to the house as a leafless stick, from Casa Tanya (thanks!)

Two new climby jobbies – on the tree, and on the pergola (Wisteria o’ Doom! Growing at a sillyfast pace).

Middle of the succulent patch, finally filled: yay!

Close-up of the amazing airbabymaker:

Along the edges of the leaves, it grows little babies. The babies grow roots, then they fall off and plunge the roots into the ground. They grow up so fast… *sniff*

The Amazing Miracle Tree TM:

Hopefully Parfles will correct me if I’m wrong, but this thing is about a year old and it’s already over 2m tall. Holy leafy goodness, Batman!

And now for some furniture.
2nd-hand bench, painted and shinied by Parfles:

Beautiful (and comfortable) bench bought for us by Eck (thank you!):

Screen for outside shower, made from old shutters, painted and installed by Parfles, with unexpected finishing help from Jean, on Sunday.

Apologies for the low-level commentary.
Work crazy!
Me crazy!
Mad people crazy!
It’s crazy!

Shady business

Steve — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:34:23 +0000

There was comedy of errors (without the comedy) following the initial construction of the pergola.
In summary: the quality of the finishings was sub-standard and we asked them to redo it.
In fact, they’re still coming back once a week (sometimes less frequently) for an hour or so to add another layer of varnish / give it sand / etc.
It’s gone beyond annoying into ridiculous now, and we still have half their money (payment due on completion), so we don’t mind if they take their time.

Enough whinging. Behold, shady thing:

Yay!
Also behold the continued sproingyness of the garden and the daisyness of the daisylawn.

Cat, Pergola

Steve — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:38:27 +0000

Before and after:

Coming soon(ish): bamboo bits on top, and shade cloth.
My skin rejoices!

Garden, pictures thereof

Steve — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:24:38 +0000

Huzzah!
The sprunging in the garden is most pleasing.

Some front garden action:

[Compare this to just a few months ago: yoinks!]

And a quick bit of back garden goodness:

[compare with April, and when we planted the lawn plug wotsits: yoinks!]

This whole “being outside and doing stuff” might catch on…

Of bookcases and gardens

Steve — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:12:08 +0000

Well hello there.
Team Wrensch have been mostly huddling around the fire and doing small stuff like mini-shelves, hanging up pictures, hence The Quiet around here recently.

The front garden exploded into greeny awesomeness, though. Thusly:

Also, we’re in the process of remixing the study / library / my office. First step has been to paint the bit of wall by the bay window (browny green), the bookcases (limey green), and for Jo to make little shelves and legs to raise the bookcase up over the skirting board and more them towards the wall. Thusly: