Sunshine Yellow

Now we have the power on

the cool room has been set up in the back yard.

It was getting hard to get more than 3 buckets of flowers in

and it is a great way to hold over the flowers until a market week.

There was an old set of shelves that seemed to be the right size

I had to reposition most of the shelves which took a lot longer

than I thought...and I was thwarted with the hanging bars being just a tad

in the way for sliding the unit in.

Now if we do some sheep I will have to get the shelves out

oh well

I think the shelves will be great to increase my cool store ability

at least 3 buckets per shelf.

I have been picking my Chrysanthemums as they reach their potential

In Australia the white chrysanthemum is the traditional mothers day flower

and I got to thinking that this is seasonally appropriate.

On the other side of the world they would be totally out of season

so what is the traditional mothers day bloom for the northern hemisphere?

Yellow is not an overly popular colour for cut flowers.

I think it is Sunshine captured.

It reminds me of Van Gogh
I like it...
I'm not so fond of the most popular cut flower colour...pink
I am growing pink flowers to satisfy that popularity but

I have wattle flowering at the moment too so there will be many

yellow bunches at the market this Saturday.

I have also been digging up my Jerusalem artichoke bulbs,

They are a great potato alternative.

Prolific producer and just before they are ready to pick, they have many yellow

sunflower like flowers.

I affectionately refer to them as farty chokes for windy reasons.