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Post by braided-rug on Sept 2, 2007 21:25:10 GMT 10
I have had my new garden since Friday. We dropped a bale of straw in on Thursday, haven't used it yet though.
Today I splashed out and bought a pump to run the waterfall in our pond, got some algae "fix" and some special straw to keep it clean. We planted a waterlily, or rather dropped it in, and planted papyrus from our current/old garden. Hopefully the electrician will give us some go ahead and we can make the waterfall work in the not too distant future.
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 4, 2007 19:41:25 GMT 10
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 10, 2007 16:37:17 GMT 10
One of those gardens pictured now has a birdbath from here, and the other a statue.
The waterfall worked well apparently but they lost half their water which is a shame.
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 11, 2007 16:10:14 GMT 10
My Mum visited today. She liked the garden. She brought some camellias. It is the first time for awhile that I have had a large area on the south side, which is the cool side down under. The camellias were Lady Lock, a one with Russian in the name, Magniflora, my peach colored Japanese one, Helena and some others. They will be very lovely in a year or so when they grow. So pretty. www.camelliagrove.com.au/show-japonicas-developed.aspwww.redlandsnursery.com.au/piclist/camelliajaponicapics.htm"One historically interesting camellia is a white flowering one, Aspasia 'Macarthur', which was produced at the Macarthur Farm. This camellia was the parent of many famous camellias later bred in Australia such as 'Lady Lock'." From Burke's Backyard website. |
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Post by violet on Sept 11, 2007 20:38:52 GMT 10
It sounds as though you're really enjoying the garden, Br, which is wonderful. I can't wait to see how much more beautiful it looks when you're finished (well, somewhat finished - what garden is ever finished?).
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 17, 2007 10:30:16 GMT 10
We were able to refill the pond as our water restrictions changed. DH put mesh over the top and planted a water iris that had some other delicate plants with it. He bought 10 fish on Friday night, and it looks like they are doing OK so far. It is hard to see them, I think the kids hoped they would see them more often.
My visitors brought some loganberry and boisenberry plants and planted them behind the shed along the fence. The fence has a concrete back so they won't get out of hand. It is in the place I was intending for vegetables, so they fit in. We can quickly run strings up to the carport for support.
Our son dug holes for some plants, old fashioned orange creeper for over the woodshed, and a gordonia in the lawn. The kids weeded a circle section in the path and started to put gravel down that was already in a pile and it looks nice. Lots of other plants planted.
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 19, 2007 14:27:31 GMT 10
Today I went to Foodworks and bought a curry plant, some cosmos, a kirin azalea, my favourite, a lemon verbena and a bay laurel.  |
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 23, 2007 11:57:53 GMT 10
Last week on shopping day I bought a pretty tea tree in a bright happy color. It is with other native styled low water plants to brighten them up. In the garden pictured.
Another day I bought a punnet or two or Russell lupins. I have been wanting them for quite awhile. I hope you can leave them in the ground like the lupins you can order on the net or in catalogues.
I had a picture in a magazine that I found a month or two ago with some plants I have here including the grey plants of cotton lavender and a grey plant with bright pink tall heads. Last weekend we found some that had self seeded in the lawn. They are supposed to self seed, but in the autumn there was only one, now quite a lot.
Yesterday we finished a garden along the pickets in full sun. It is for salvias and things and I had hoped to follow that picture. We have cobble shaped stones that we took along. DH and ds dug and dug to make sure it wasn't hard underneath in the future. They even unearthed two short pieces of old water pipe which they will recycle into stakes today.
I accidently planted the cotton lavender somewhere else, but I have the lupins and the other grey plant plus the salvias. One salvia grows quite large, it shouldn't be in there really. But the fine tuning we can do later.
We dug up a kerria or primrose jasmine. DH put another one in here which was good forward planning, as one was too established to take out. I loved the effect it had on the garden there. It is funny how things look in different settings.
Even though it looked good by the lattice, it ended up being planted near the pool, to cascade of the rocks, and in the breeze the branches move which gives a natural feeling to the pool area. Perhaps a little shade to the fish.
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 23, 2007 12:04:16 GMT 10
  You might be able to see the area I am talking about from these photos taken a little while ago. Things are not so dull now, it is amazing how things have responded. |
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 25, 2007 11:02:25 GMT 10
DS16 reported yesterday that the fish seem to be growing, which I think is amazing. |
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Post by happyathome on Sept 26, 2007 23:57:58 GMT 10
WOW  You have been busy!! It looks so very nice and so does your neighborhood. By looking at it, it reminds me of here. What gardening zone are you in? We are between a 8-9 here. I have more shade around our house-area so our garden is off of our driveway a bit. We live on 10 acres we share with DH folks so I have a bit of leeway in chasing the sun about! I think our seasons are opposite, right? We are in Autumn now and you are just into Spring? Do you have raccoons there? They are a problem here with people who have fish ponds. |
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 27, 2007 14:12:42 GMT 10
Wow, I didn't know that. I was so thankful the other day that I don't have lions either. The only thing like that we have are domestic ferrets. Some people have a lot of trouble with rabbits and I think maybe birds like c ockatoos, I don't know. It hasn't happened to me. I noticed the other day, from the bathroom (bath not toilet) there is a view of a rock on a hill, very pretty. It is behind the tree in the last picture. Some of the plants were already there, which was a real blessing I think, and water systems. Usually I don't find any interesting annuals. I have been very lucky lately. Today I got bedding dahlias, that I am not familiar with, gypsophila and Californian poppies. I am in blue or green in the link for zones. I'd say blue. www.anbg.gov.au/hort.research/zones.html |
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 27, 2007 14:23:44 GMT 10
WOW You have been busy!! It looks so very nice and so does your neighborhood. By looking at it, it reminds me of here. What gardening zone are you in? We are between a 8-9 here. I have more shade around our house-area so our garden is off of our driveway a bit. We live on 10 acres we share with DH folks so I have a bit of leeway in chasing the sun about! I think our seasons are opposite, right? We are in Autumn now and you are just into Spring? Do you have raccoons there? They are a problem here with people who have fish ponds. It is spring here now. I love the sound of your garden. It seems we are in similar zones. |
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 1, 2007 19:44:03 GMT 10
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Post by rosebee on Oct 7, 2007 14:12:56 GMT 10
Nice plantings BR - I am envious of the flat land....
I have a great big book on organic gardening and according to the hardiness zone we are in the yellow - zone 9. I guess that is right because although we have had random days of frost from 19 June - 26 Sept, it hasn't gone below -2 Celsius (28 F)
The average minimum temperature for zone 8 is -12 to -7 Celsius - does it get that cold where you are BR? You must get a bit of snow with that temperature? We don't get snow here at all - only in the mountains!
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You have been busy!! It looks so very nice and so does your neighborhood. By looking at it, it reminds me of here. What gardening zone are you in? We are between a 8-9 here. I have more shade around our house-area so our garden is off of our driveway a bit. We live on 10 acres we share with DH folks so I have a bit of leeway in chasing the sun about!
