Major Ripping Out of Plants!

Well, things have changed since I last came in there! Woah!

Okay... no more fonts I like to pick from, the colours are probably going to be really, really basic too. I'll see.

Anyway, this week, I've been eying off a delicious, new green house at Bunnings - but it's a very expensive one as well! Yep, my old green house is falling apart and I've been patiently waiting for the next government Covid-19 payment to get it... and today, I checked my balances and - OMG! - it came in!So, next week, I'm getting my butt to the bank and moving some serious dough to order it in. You see, the really expensive greenhouses at Bunnings are Special Order items and they take a month to come in. I don't mind, it'll give me time to get my butt into gear to buy more pavers, move some plants and get in and work on the rest of the yard to move everything around. 

So, what have you been up to lately with your gardens? 

Over the past weekend, I ripped out plants - as my title says - and threw three away. My two limes were dead, no thanks to wasps laying their lavae in the branches and it being too late for me to do anything about it! And my Ficus? Well, that bastard of a plant really made itself at home running roots in 3 different directions for 1.5 metres and wrapping its main root ball around the paver I had put underneath it. 

I did repot some plants around the place. 

I repotted Little Miss Stevie's memorial plant in one of the Lime Tree's pots and it's looking happier less than a week later. The Fiddle Leaf Plant is now outside in a larger pot and next to the front door, where it's totally enjoying the sunlight, the rain, the warmth off the wall behind it... yep, it's just happy as hell! And it's stopped dropping leaves too.

The little weird indoor plant I bought from Coles, which I don't know the name of was put into the little brown pot which the Fiddle Leaf Plant started its life in... and it's happy too now. I'm pleased to say all the plants in my house and garden are looking great.Well, that's except the ones upstairs in the bathroom and the terrarium in my master bedroom - but that another post for another day. Until my next post, happy gardening! 

Winter Garden

I haven't been in here for a while mainly because I haven't had to do anything much in the garden. The sun doesn't reach to the back of house; and as the temps drop, the garden 'goes to sleep'. 

But that's not all it does. 

In Winter, my Jades burst into bloom! They're just the most lovely at this time of year and they show how pretty they really are. 

It's always so lovely when this kind of thing happens in the garden, isn't it? One large part of the garden goes to sleep, and another part of it wakes up. I love it when this happens when I'm not paying much attention to it... it's as though my garden is telling me 'hey, you've done something right!' 

Well, until my next post, happy gardening!

Getting Stuff Done

It's been trying times on everyone, hasn't it?

With this Covid-19 pandemic, it hasn't been easy to socialise, to do anything around the place that we normally do, or to enjoy going out - especially when the government has said to stay at home.

Hey, I love to stay home.

So, what I've done is get right into my garden. I replaced some herbs, potted up some tomato seeds, told a neighbour to leave me alone (and to stop coming to my house) and I started planning what to do next in my yard this Winter.

Oh... yeah, I told my neighbour to stop coming around because she took a hack saw to one of my 6ft Jades outside my house while I was house sitting at Brighton - on the other side of Brisbane. It took a while, but she got the message - kind of. She still thinks we're friends. We're not.

Anyway, this week, I bought an arch for the garden - and I keep forgetting how big these things are! Mine is over 6ft tall and metal. I bought it for $40 at Bunnings and got another neighbour to help me move it into place.
Then, on Thursday this week, I bought what I thought (and was told was) a Jasmine; but it was from the Jasmine family. Anyway, today, I was at Bunnings where I bought a large pot, feet for the pot and a 50Lt bag of garden soil and a bag of stones (for drainage). Now, that little climber is all potted up and happily trained to the arch; and by Christmas, I'll have a gorgeously flowering creeper with pink flowers. 

So, this is what I've been up to in my garden. I've also asked my landlord if he can get an awning across the back of my house... but even after the quote, I haven't heard back from him. Oh well, one step at a time I guess. Until my next post, take care and happy gardening. 

Gardening Update

I've been very busy in the little garden of my townhouse - busier than I normally would be at this time of year. Usually, I do all my work in Winter, when all my plants have gone dormant, and have gone to 'sleep'. But with this Coronavirus around, I've been working my butt off to get my garden ready for a lock down - one where I can't leave my house.

Or one where I'm not allowed to go out very often.

I'm not leaving my place often anyway, but that's just a preparation for not being able to leave at all.

Well, I've been dropping tomato seeds into pots, and they're growing well. And birds are eating the growths. So, I've had to put plastic bags over the top to protect them and make them grow better - even in the green house. 
I've  got a butterfly chrysalis and it's just lost its translucency and turned a dark green colour. I've never watched this transformation before - it's so fascinating! 

Now, I've got my herbs growing again and it's going really well. I'm hoping to repot my spinach, but I'm kinda worried that if I do, it'll die off. So, I'm leaving it alone for now. 

I think I've said in a prior post that I've frozen some of my veggies and I'm hoping to do more freezing when the time comes around. 

So, what are you up to in your garden? I did score a second lime tree and some good pots to repot the Tahitian Lime - which went well - and I potted up the 3 feet of small leaf jade I found that my neighbour cut off out of the front garden of my town house. It's going really well so far too. 
And I have a new addition to the garden in the way of a bargain buy from Bunnings: a $10 Frangipani! What a little beauty it is too! It was getting too big for the pot and I potted up into a bigger one and now it's happy and starting to lose its leaves - can't wait until next year when it'll get lovely white flowers with pink tips. Well, until next time, happy gardening.  

April 2020 and the Coronavirus?

Well, isn't this a change for the new year? 

We all get told to stay home and us gardeners are in heaven - right? 

I am.

But I wasn't home for long in December - about a month actually - as I was off to my brother's house to house sit for 6 weeks; and dog sit, when this virus hit on a global scale.

Well, when I arrived home, I had a lot of work to get done in the garden... there was so much clipping back, weeding, and repotting to do, that I just couldn't wait to get to Bunnings and collect what I needed.
But it's not that easy anymore, is it? There's restrictions on when we can go out, what time to go out who can start shopping; and social distancing as well. 

So, I've been working on my garden, and it's been great therapy for me. I just hope I can let it go for a few weeks until the next time I go back to Bunnings - if they're still open to the public. 

Anyway, I hope your garden is going well in these uncertain times around the globe. Take care of yourselves and happy gardening.