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Garden, pictures thereof

Steve — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:24:38 +0000

Huzzah!
The sprunging in the garden is most pleasing.

Some front garden action:

[Compare this to just a few months ago: yoinks!]

And a quick bit of back garden goodness:

[compare with April, and when we planted the lawn plug wotsits: yoinks!]

This whole “being outside and doing stuff” might catch on…

Further gardening adventures, logs, and stepchairders

Steve — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:19:31 +0000

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! : )

Plugs and more

Steve — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:06:01 +0000

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.

big red boxes dot com, plus boom

Steve — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:54:24 +0000

Herb and veggie garden in big raised bed things

A baby Keurboom tree.

: )

In the jungle

Steve — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:48:37 +0000

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.

Dirtbags

Steve — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:00:08 +0000

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.)

Let’s Get Dirt(y)

Steve — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:38:03 +0000

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… :)

It’s a plant! (times lots)

Steve — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:51:35 +0000

Front garden continues to asplode at excellent pace:

Pretty white flowers from the potato plant:

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the ERF: red frangipanis, flown down from Jo’s Ma’s garden, as hand luggage (one grounded, one earthed):

Grow!

Steve — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:45:35 +0000

The front garden has gone KaPow over the past few months.
Go Jo and her green (and red¹) fingers!

Also: a frangipani tree, and local (red) wildlife taking an interest.
It followed us home from Obz Fest and now lives in the front garden.

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1 – the chairs. Pictures later… Also red: other random parts of Jo: elbow, heel, right shoulder.

More green

Steve — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:44:52 +0000

And a shower.

:-)

As you may be able to tell from the first pic, the door to nowhere is now gone.
A bit sad to lose it, but it was kak and crumbling, so *slap* it goes.