Tricky course finally finished.

Well, a bunch of us finished our Sustainable Landscape Design course this week, and we are all pretty proud, as out of 45 people starting across two streams,  two and a half years ago, apparently only 16 of us have got through.  Apparently the course is one of its kind in the world, with a similar title anyway. It was a great exercise in getting your head around designing on the computer, dropping all those bad gardening and landscaping habits and just coming to appreciate what we have around us and how divine and precious it is.  It seemed apt tonight when I went out in to my garden and found about 10 tomatoes on my vines. They've come a bit early this year, thanks to all the rain.

And, what a fantastic bunch of people we've met over the last two years, and have to thank  them for being so inspiring and knowledgeable, Frances, Mim,  Brad, Stu, James, Kerry, Helen,  Gary, (Swinburne teachers) and Bruce, Tracey, Ryan, and all the fantastic staff at Sustainable Gardening Australia (my volunteer job).  I also have to thank Andrew for his help when I was struggling with getting my head around some complex building aspects, and without whose help the green roof would most certainly not have got up so smoothly.  I also have to thank my family, especially my son, Sebastian for putting up with the infernal tirades at the Vectorworks software programme (oh, and the vodka helped too).