Continue to develop my indigenous garden

who have stayed over recently have both remarked on how lovely the garden is.

YaY!

from the garden bed.

I plan to take views of the bed at various times of the day to check on sun/shadow to facilitate effective planting.

The next step in for the ground to be thoroughly turned over and rocks removed.

Also,the soil need a good deal of enriching.

We are leaving the climbing roses on trellis against the wall.

Everything else is coming out, we are going to dig deep, remove all stones,import rich loamy earth and compost. Then the idea is to plant up a cttagey kitchen vegetableandherb garden in a formal planting style.

I have broached the idea with Ben the bossy gardener and he (surprisingly) agrees with me.

He might start on this plan today.

of bulbs have been planted up. Two containers have been placed at the feet of the ‘flying lady’ bench. Two are near the front door for easy monitoring of growth progress, and another narrow rectangle has been planted with graceful white ‘chinks’ or ornithalgum bulbs, which I will see on the front patio every time I step out. A final, large round container has been placed on the sunny deck and planted up with freesias in mixed colours.

Have some bulbs left over – must find suitable spots for them and set up a proper watering schedule.

I think I would like to deviate from the 100% indigenous rule and get perhaps 1 packet of tulips – even if they struggle to de well here. (We can only plant them late in the season and they never produce re-usable bulbs.)

several packets of indigenous spring bulbs (babiana, ixia, ornithalgum, freesia, sparaxis) and some super teracotta pots so that I can plant them up for the patio outside my office and for the wooden deck outside the living room and family room.

Yay! Will start preparing the pots later today, after I have done some proper work.

waiting for a bat family to take up residence.

for a half moon shaped bed off the deck.It’s partly shaded, so only certain plants will be suitable.

A goal for this weekend?

She now adorns the front paved area, looking out onto the street. I shall post a picture when I figure out how to do this.

Immensely pleased about this.

Quirky, in your face,original …. I love her already.

this afternoon, weeding the garden paths. A masked weaver has been stripping its nest and the greenery dropped onto the path makes it difficult to see if there is any grass or weed growing. However, I did tidy up a bit and also spent some’mindless’time sorting bark that had washed on to the gravel. (The path has alternate sections of gravel and bark for contrast.)

told me that I had not planted those lovely primulas and aquilegias properly. He was very annoyed with me. (Apparently I should have planted them deeper.)

He took up my work and re-did the whole bed.