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There's a difference, though, between growing most of what you eat and growing everything.

Maybe it’s a leftover siege mentality from my ancestors - when you never knew if you had to survive war or plague - or just a winter with no supermarkets, cans or freeze dried peas. The garden bulges with too many lettuce, radishes, parsnips, the apples are crowded into the mulberries and the strawberries are rambling through everything so it’s lucky the birds and wombats like them too. Lunch was salad from the garden, fulfilled life.Ī self sufficient garden needn't mean digging up the dahlias and putting the lawn down to potatoes. Of the whole meal only a little flour and sugar were brought in. It was sponge cake for supper, made with duck eggs and more of Sally's cream, and home grown passionfruit on top and home made raspberry jam. Raspberries and cream for dessert - and through the window you could see the cow that gave the cream, chomping up the hill. Potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, two sorts of beans and a small golden beetroot, all from the garden.

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A roast chook- and indian game, small and sweet, with the chicken taste I'd forgotten from my childhood (today’s frozen birds and even most free range ones don't taste of much at all). It was just what everyone did in the depression, when money was short, supermarkets never thought of - and the nearest shop a day's journey away. Jean learnt self sufficiency many decades ago - but it wasn't called self sufficiency then. Years later I learnt the old Australian ideal of self sufficiency from our next door neighbour. Mr Doo made his living on the same ground that provided us with lawn to mow on Sundays, a few roses and a sandpit, and had enough to give away as well. Thick clipped rows of trees and wide banks of vegetables, so closely planted it was hard to tell the celery from the cabbages banks of edible chrysanthemums and tall red flowered vines on poles that dripped with beans. He was one of the last Chinese market gardeners of the area. Around us were neat gardens with shrubs and lawns, a small vegie garden or a few fruit trees. It has so many yellow flowers from spring to summer they nearly cover the whole plant.When I was a child we lived in a new subdivision.

Cytisus racemosus nana (dwarf yellow broom) reaches about 5 feet in height and also grows well in containers.

'Burkwoodii' reaches between 5 and 7 feet tall, with crimson flowers in late spring. 'Killiney Red' is a smaller, compact variety with red blooms. 'Goldfinch' is crimson and yellow with pink and yellow wings. 'Cornish Cream' has ivory cream and yellow flowers. There are several cultivars of the species.

Cytisus scoparius (common broom, Scotch broom) puts on a long show of yellow flowers on its 5-foot reach from May to June.

Cytisus x praecox (Warminster broom) is a hybrid that grows to 5 feet tall offering pale yellow flowers in early May.Foliage is deep green and flowers are ruby red and yellow through spring and early summer.

Cytisus x 'Lena' (Lena scotch broom) a dwarf variety that grows 4 feet tall.

Cytisus x spachianus (sweet broom) is a hybrid with bright yellow, sweetly fragrant flowers in late spring.

This wide, low-growing shrub displays pale yellow to creamy white flowers in spring.

Cytisus x kewensis (Kew broom) reaches 2 feet tall and is ideal for rock gardens.

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