gretel

gretel

Member since: Oct 07 | Years gardening: 2

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A 23 year old living in Perth, Western Australia usually seen in front of the internet or driving my magna with music up way too loud.

I fall in and out of obsession with varying things, at the moment some of my obsessions include, terrible 80’s music, motorcycles, gardening, reading (and watching) speculative fiction and knitting.

I’m also at various other places and sites including the lj litrix and gretel and dw gretel. I’m also greteldragon on twitter.

Identifying features that you may hear me mention, all in nice neat bullet points:

  • After several academic ups and downs, I’m completing part-time studies towards a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in geography, which I love to pieces, but I’m not particularly brilliant at
  • I’m apparently a chronic pain sufferer, after getting hit by a car riding a Kawasaki ZZR. This is the reason why my study is currently part-time
  • I’m a country girl at heart, despite currently living in a city of 2 million people
  • It’s not an exaggeration to call me angry and/or grumpy, I often rant about many important subjects including why I hate cyclists, stupid people, twilight, cages and cities. I find its amazing how relaxing an angry rant can be.
  • I’ve been vegetarian half my life and I’m 23.
  • If you don’t like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns’N’Roses or The Clash, you probably don’t want to be in a car with me.
  • I have a cat called Diesel (seen in my default user icon) and my family has a dog called Devil. Both are a bit silly, but loved anyway
  • I love gardening, but I’m not very good at it.
  • I love speculative fiction, I used to just read millions of books, but more recently I’ve become obsessed with comics and what movies and tv series can show. I now have a lot of comics, and get stupidly carried away when talking about Batman.

Gardens

  • gretel's Frontyard garden

    Frontyard garden

    Is currently a complete mess of weeds with a few nice big plants. Is very embarrassing.

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    • 2 journals
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  • gretel's Fruit trees garden

    Fruit trees garden

    Mostly trees leftover from before I moved here, mostly badly placed and planted, but most of them thriving anyway. And so I love them, but most are...

    • 7 plants
    • 4 journals
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  • gretel's Herb and kitchen window garden

    Herb and kitchen window garden

    I had some spare pavers, so I killed off the first line row of my lawn along the retaining wall near the kitchen window and door. Now the pavers ha...

    • 1 plants
    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
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  • gretel's Side garden

    Side garden

    The garden between the house and the neighbours fence. Its long and skinny with a few large shade trees. Improvements I have made to it (its on...

    • 2 plants
    • 0 journals
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    • 0 comments
  • gretel's The succulent collection garden

    The succulent collection garden

    Succulents are awesome plants and the entire reason I started gardening. Most of mine will make it into being incorporated into the front yard, sho...

    • 0 plants
    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 1 comments
  • gretel's Vegetable garden

    Vegetable garden

    This area used to be a vegetable patch... about ten year ago, and until I started clearing it (around a year and a half ago) had been neglected for...

    • 3 plants
    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

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Other places you can find me

I love to grow

Succulents. Vegies and herbs are pretty cool too.


Hobbies

knitting, reading, writing, cooking, motorcycling


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