Now that the garden’s getting green, we’re getting more frequent visitors from the animal kingdom.
Lots of butterflies and the like.
The other day we spotted a stick insect on a stick.
Kinda cute…
More pictures of the actual greenery to follow when it’s not so hot and bright outside.
: )
Another weekend, another green expansion :).
See: the sprouting of many things on the ground!
Laugh: at the cunning use of old burglar bars as trellis thingies!
Sneeze: since you just had a cat sitting on your head!
(that last one might just be me…)
Also, meet Trunky. New deck chair.
In further, awesome, news: stepchairder! Chair and ladder! Combined! More than meets the eye!
1/2 of which is HW pressie from Jess – thank you! : )
Green!
This morning we planted two trays of plugs of Daisy Lawn.
Hard work, but fun. Especially when you see the result.
There Shall Be Lawn!
Also went in today – groundcover-y things between the stepping stones and some *deep breath* basil, rocket, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and baby marrows for the BRB.com’s.
Herb and veggie garden in big raised bed things
A baby Keurboom tree.
: )
Woo! What a fantastic housewarming. :)
Thank you very much to everyone who came.
Lots of people brought us planty goodies – thank you!
The thin green line:
Widescreen version:
(you might not be able to tell, but this is actually several photos put together. yes, it’s true!)
Then we spent a very happy Sunday evening planting a whole bunch of them (and one or two we went and bought ourselves from two local guys). Click for slightly large than usual pic, for the details.
Starting on the one by Jo’s foot and going clockwise:
lemon tree; succulents; perlagonium; protea; more perlagoniums; lemon tree the second; perlagonium; (kate) bush; several succluents. I think.
Yay!
It’s starting to look like a proper garden now.
Tonight: move planters, fill them up with dirt, and plant the remaining greenery.
The garden now has a layer of compost over the top, a whole bunch of ickle logs as breakwater thingies, and lots of steppy stoney jobs.
:-D
[ laid by Jo ]
Btw, I sent out an email about the housewarming about a week ago.
It seems to have landed in lots of people’s spam boxes…
R to the S to the V to the P, please!
ahem…
A strange turn of events lead to us unbagging the rest of the dirt this morning.
The rest is compost, which is fluffier.
Do you think Master Organics (our dealer) employs a compost fluffer?
More progress in garden-making goodness.
a.m.:
p.m.:
Most of the dirt now unbagged and plonked into the garden.
A fat wodge of compost dolloped onto the beds-to-be, and the rest moved off the ground so that we could dig and dirt that patch.
Not massively clear from the pic, but it’s only the bit around the tree that still needs new dirt. Go us! (possibly Go straight to sleep, do not pass Go, do not collect 200 bags of dirt. We are The Tired.)
Bags of dirt!
Dirty bags!
Compost!
The bags on the left are piled almost as tall as me.
Yikes!
Now we just need to pour it out and dig it in.
This may take several weekends… :)
