the urban orchard

Perth is a cool city. We have beautiful weather, people are friendly, work-life is relaxed, we aren't too over-crowded, and we don't care too much about what other people think of us. We could comfortably walk down to the shopping mall (well at least the smaller ones) in our ugg boots and nobody would really care.

I remember a friend from Melbourne came over once and described people in Perth as 'not pretentious' and I really think she described Perth very well.

Don't you agree?

Where else would you be able to plop a vegetable garden in the middle of the 'cultural precinct' with a man-made swamp just a stone's throw away?

I'm serious!

We have a vegetable garden outside our Art Gallery and it's called the Urban Orchard - check it out!

If you forget your lunch one day, you can always go to the vegie patch, pick a few leaves, grab a tin of tuna from woolies - and hey presto - lunch in a jiffy!

I actually don't know if you're allowed to go picking stuff from there - so don't quote me please!

But the idea is quite original. I'm sure people from other states will think it's very backwards and weird, but I think it's original and I really believe that if they say anything like that, it's just out of jealousy because they can't get free salad. :)

A few weeks ago, when I was strolling by the vegie patch, there was something else quite original that caught my eye - lotuses made of recycled plastic floating on tyres in a wading pool!

Other states, eat your heart out...