I'm so excited about two new topics on the green idiom website, eco cities and micro homes. I just love well designed and kitted out micro homes, and wish I had better skills as a builder. I'd like to live in a giant seashell, its much better than living in a real horse drawn gypsy caravan or a pirate ship.
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I'm hoping to start a series (see different gardens on this website) featuring gardens and their gardeners. I start with the lovely garden at Irma Stern Museum and Jonathan Fritz its gardener. You can see his gardening tips for taking care of so much garden on greenidiom.com
Two days ago I started the backyard garden design project in which I'll be documenting my thinking, planning, building and planting out of the north side of the garden in Goodwood. The soil is sand, 2 meters deep maybe more....... so Capetonians.......... this is for you. I completed stage 3 the first planting, yesterday, transplanted a huge troublesome aloe, which may not look it but weighs as much as a small person hence the tension in my arms and legs The planting was planned to take approximately ten to fourteen days. Based on the first job, it will probably take twice as long, but in the meantime, I'm working on something else, pursuing the recyclers of Cape Town, and I'm arranging an interview with someone at one of the biggest recycling companies in South Africa, and I want to feature quite a number of individuals at all levels of the recycling economy to find out more about what they do and why, and where the money is in the business, for example, and what volunteers should be working on.
I'm developing a website that is related to this one. It is http//:www.greenidiom.com. It's main topic is greenness in the environmentally friendly sense, mainly in a domestic situation, with my home as laboratory, but also more broadly. Its about recycling, green building, garden design and gardening mainly, for a start. It needs a lot of development, but I'm regularly going to post here what is new on 'greenidiom'. In the beginning there is overlap but its shifting into two different modes. It is a lot more verbal and less visual, so you'll find my ideas from the crazy to the banal in verbal form there, and I do love words. At the moment I'm thinking that in time it will become more like a reference on green stuff, and this website and blog more like a photo album or scrapbookish diary/blog. Some new items are that I recently visited a lovely Fynbos nursery so reasonably priced that I could splurge, and its right down the road in Goodwood !
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