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Post by braided-rug on Jan 27, 2007 20:13:09 GMT 10
We have three new plants that I hope do well. An alstroemeria, a society garlic and an allium.
Our jam melons are growing well.
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Post by braided-rug on Feb 7, 2007 14:08:03 GMT 10
We are just starting stage 3 water restrictions. I'll let you know how our plants get on. So far so good I think.
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Post by braided-rug on Feb 18, 2007 18:04:57 GMT 10
I haven't had a close look, but no dramas so far. My jam melons are going well.
The sunflowers are lovely, but a mow of the mostly dead lawn would help, maybe tonight.
It is nearly time for a show of belladonna lilies. Should brighten things up a bit.
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Post by braided-rug on Mar 5, 2007 9:50:22 GMT 10
We have had a bit of rain. The nature strip looks green from the window. We have started watering with grey water again though.
We have added to our belladonna collection.
The birds have been eating the sunflowers. Even sparrows!
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Post by braided-rug on Mar 28, 2007 10:08:40 GMT 10
It rained a few days ago and it turned the weather. DH has just started bucketing water again. Holding the water has taken some dye out of our son's clothes. Not too much of a drama though.
On the weekend dh cut back the large blue salvia and took the heads off the euphorbia. A lady did that on a Gardening Australia show that matched the last magazine. The euphorbia has white milk like a milk thistle, I didn't know that. Taking the salvia down let light into the now medium sized euphorbia shoots that are coming from the bottom.
He also tied up the chrysanthumums. They already have buds, the year is getting away.
As much as the heat was tiring I don't enjoy the change in the weather. I felt cold all day yesterday and felt I was getting a sore throat. I know, I don't seem to be able to look after myself properly!! I didn't have that hot drink.
He tidied up the rose on the arch, it still isn't mature so he moves the branches and reties them and tucks in bits and pieces.
He also moved the three pots of hyacinths from the side of the house down to the end of the same path which is at the front where they get more sun.
I suppose it all helps.
The sunflowers need taking away, and one of the jam melons is huge and I want to take a photo soon.
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Post by braided-rug on Apr 10, 2007 20:36:13 GMT 10
The sunflower area has been tidied up and looks very nice. DH has done a lot of weeding and doing edges and even putting some rocks along part of a garden bed. The back lawn on a hill looks dead still. The front is dry but I enjoy everything he has done there.
Today he planted the Vietnamese mint and the 3 tulip bulbs to fill a patch where they had died in the ring. We still have a feijoa to plant.
The front looks grey. Out of town looks green, some places are not so green looking.
We have one watering system that dh says is OK to use. I should see about getting another one, the things to make it with. It seems nothing is going to change for awhile. Maybe I am wrong.
The melon seems to be bigger every time I see it. I want to mow the lawn, but mowing it seems to dry it out.
DH says that he did take out lots of dead plants. We also loosened the mulch that had a crust.
A garden catalogue came today from garden express. It just doesn't seem the same in a drought. It was a good catalogue though.
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Post by braided-rug on Apr 17, 2007 16:19:07 GMT 10
I wish I had bought some pansies a few weeks ago for the extra wheelbarrow we have now. Having said that, I planned to get some last Thursday and that particular supermarket has gone out of annuals. Maybe no one is buying them because of the drought?
I wonder if it is too late for planting for spring?
Our nerines are doing very well. Last year I think there was only one flower, the first since we moved here. This year there will be something like six, and possibly very soon. That is exciting, because we have a view and it is very smoky and dusty. You notice it very much when you step outside.
The crysanthumums have really coloured up in the last few days, since something like Friday or earlier.
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Post by braided-rug on Apr 20, 2007 11:05:11 GMT 10
There are more like nine nerines to flower this year. We also have flowers on our pineapple sage.
I saw some pansies in town. I saw the stand outside and walked back to have a look outside a shop. Now to find some coins and to buy some.
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Post by braided-rug on Apr 26, 2007 20:37:22 GMT 10
Still no pansies. We had good news about our water restrictions, we have been put back onto stage two, which should help dh quite a bit. However, it is not immediate. It did make me happy.  |
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Post by braided-rug on Apr 29, 2007 15:42:59 GMT 10
It has been raining for a whole day off and on. Some showers have been heavy. So the upshot of that is that dh didn't have to use the water from the washing machine to water today, he didn't have to water!
DH has been to the tip to get some mulch and some soil from the mulch to fill the wheelbarrow. Yesterday while in a larger town he bought some pansies from Big W, they are supposed to be cheaper for annuals. They look cute in the barrow with the red wheel.
I am very happy with the crysanthumums. The leaves on others trees are coming down very quickly.
ds wants to make a pudding with the jam melon today, it has masala in it.
The pineapple sage went very wilty awhile back, but I washed and ds bucketed water onto it.
The nerines are very pretty. They are out now.
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Post by braided-rug on May 2, 2007 9:54:02 GMT 10
DH mulched the round rose garden with brick edges while he was at it and you wouldn't believe the difference it made. The front looks very nice.
Out the back the little clumps of possibly dormant lawn suddenly have blades of grass, the moonscape hopefully now is just a memory. It is hard to believe really. Near the clothesline new grass is coming up.
It is so nice to move forward from the drought. A little bit of a shock though to have winter branches very shortly. It wasn't very many weeks ago that we had a very hot summers day.
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Post by braided-rug on May 14, 2007 16:31:14 GMT 10
Today I was doing a bit of tidying and went out to the garbage bin. While I was out there I checked on the front garden very carefully. I found some lovely small ranuculus from last year. So following my uncle's advice from last year and went and got the snail bait and put some around. Hopefully that will help. Then after putting the bait back I checked some of the back garden and was delighted to find buds on my wintersweet tree. It is the first time it has had buds. It is getting to fence height now, it was tiny I think and has been there for awhile. I will be so happy come winter to see my flowers and smell them hopefully. DS16 did some raking for me the other day. And after he mowed the lawn it looked lovely out there. I have one selfsown or left over poppy from last year. |
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Post by braided-rug on May 20, 2007 14:42:30 GMT 10
Today I found a white jonquil flowering and also a violet. DH cleaned up the paving and took away the jam melon vines. It looks nice.
It will be lovely to have flowers all through the winter.
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Post by braided-rug on May 30, 2007 11:31:55 GMT 10
We may be able to start taking some next week when things are a bit quieter. I bought some lawn camomile today and some dill, which I use occasionally for soup. It is a Greek lentil soup. I completely forgot about the dill, I wonder if it is still OK? I even bought some dill to use to make the soup last week. |
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Post by braided-rug on Jun 16, 2007 17:38:06 GMT 10
I bought some chocolate mint and pretty apple mint and some pennywort I think it was. I haven't planted them out yet. I liked smelling the chocolate mint and reading the tags. |
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