A visitor to our garden, Harry the hare. He prefers the short grass of our lawn to the long rank grass of our neighbours .
I couldn't help but think of Peter Rabbit, who was born in 1902 in The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. The widowed mother rabbit cautions her young against entering the vegetable garden of a man named Mr. McGregor, telling them: "your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor". Peter does not listen and is spotted by Mr. McGregor. After all sorts of scrapes including losing his clothing, getting lost and sneaking past a cat he finally crawls under the fence, returning home. Sick Peter is sent to bed by his mother, while his well-behaved sisters receive a sumptuous dinner of milk and berries as opposed to Peter's supper of chamomile tea.
As long as Harry stays on the grass and out of the garden he will be enjoyed by the guests and tolerated by the gardener!
Julie and Jonathan call their Bed and Breakfast Ribbonwood Retreat after the Ribbonwood tree that grows near their home. Once common these trees are now in decline. We have planted Ribbonwoods and many other trees to attract native birds back to our garden. Maori Proverb: If you cut the heart of the flax bush, where will the bellbird sing?
Links
- Ribbonwood Website
- Ecuador and Galapagos Islands 2019
- Italy and Croatia 2018
- Central America 2017
- Western Australia 2016
- Sri Lanka 2015
- 2013 travels to SE Asia
- 2011 Tuscanny Travels and Vietnam Ventures
- 2010 travels home teaching in Cairo.
- Julie living and working in Egypt 2010
- Julie's teaching and life in Jordan stint 2009
- Julie living and working in Japan 2008
- New Zealand’s most endangered kiwi species on the road to recovery.
- New Zealand Birds
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