This summers challenge is well and truly focused on managing possum magic. One day I am admiring the beautiful new shoots and small young leaves forming on the plum tree, the climbing rose and the pomegranate, the next day…voila! possum magic and they are gone! my eyes stare…my eyes I rub, my mind dims, my spirit falls and I ponder why oh why I did not net them instead of admiring them…but the tricky thing is that I don’t want the garden to be a sea of white tutu bird netted plants I want my colour green…but white tutu’s it must be or no green I will see.

Quince flowers protected.