In your gardens
jennyss
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I'm hoping to see what's growing in your gardens. Some early spring things anywhere?
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Tried attaching a pic taken yesterday, but web page didn't accept it. I'm on FB and have been keeping a log with pictures. Gardening is good fir the soul0
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At this time of the year we are well into our Dry Season. November brings our wet season (maybe). Our block has not had a downpour since March and so our garden, in spite of reticulation, is looking sparse.However glory of glories, my orchid house is looking luxurious with lots of growth and flower buds.I have been watching the buds on this orchid for over two weeks. This morning it has burst into flower.
Look closely into the centre of each orchid flower to see the very delicate yellow and striking purple hues against the white of the flower.
This one I call Fairies Aprons. I like to think that my Garden Fairies (they don't exist, but I like to wish) would wear these while they flit throughout my garden.7 -
Over the last 18 months we have been renovating our bathroom / laundry. In fact building a complete new bathroom, second toilet on the back verandah and a laundry with a second shower. All I wanted was a laundry cupboard!Everything was newly built, replaced or rebuilt. In the mantra of recycle / re-use, I could not bring myself to throw out the original toilet pan.It has become a garden feature.
I hope the Moses In The Cradle will eventually fill the area and cascade down over the sides. My garden has "whimsys". This one is down the back garden path tucked away around a bend in the path.5 -
Gorgeous @Annie C .... terrific that you can still have lovely flowers xx
My Desert Roses are growing leaves again .....
Sadly, the lovely mini cymbidium my brother gave me after my surgery has 'carked it' and has been removed from my Kitchen Window Sill. It did SO well for so long ....
I do NOT have a green thumb!
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Haha, then I shall just have to do up a video and post it. In the wet season would be a good time - there is nothing like our wet season after a thunderstorm, the smell of the pindan earth being replenished, the lightning, thunder and when the storm is over the sound of green tree frogs singing up more rain.Recently some very good friends have departed our little town and are returning to retire in New Zealand. They were here for twelve years with the Corrections Department being some of the first prison officers to work in the West Kimberley Regional Prison when it opened in 2010.Many a fine meal, laughter and good times were spent around our dining table over the years.They gave us a small gift to remember them.
They are confined to the Garden Room because like all good gnomes they wander. Here they are discussing the morning with Boris.
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I've just bought a couple of lovely looking grevillieas for the front garden (the previous ones carked it a while back) ..... so hopefully these ones will last longer!!
Any tips on planting them, other than digging a hole & whacking them in??1 -
A hole at least as twice as large as the pot that the grevillias are in. A good shovel full or two of a good mix suitable for native plants, water well, don't fertilise for a month and then only use a fertiliser suitable for natives.After all that, pray!2
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@Annie C Yes I think natives do only like a fertilzer specifically for natives. Mum had the most beautiful banksia tree. One time they were away on holidays and I was looking after the garden. Thought I would give it the same fertilizer as everything else. I I didnt know any different. Took maybe 2 or 3 weeks but I managed to kill it. Made big gap in the backyard garden. (This is why I stick to bulbs, roses).2
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