Spring garden

15/10/10

Today I planted two eggplants, 'Bonica' and 'Fairy' something and a capsicum. I also sowed some mint and sage. When I was tootling about, picking up some sugarcane mulch, something caught my eye in the composting grass clippings-a potato! I put some potatoes in the clippings in Autumn and then watered them only when I remembered and they grew and I have enough now for a potato salad! Yay! I have also been harvesting the broad beans, silverbeet and carrots.

The more I harvest, the more I am inspired to grow out own food. It is so satisfying to wander out to the garden and choose the evening meal based on what it ready to pick, pluck or dig up.

I planted out the cosmos this morning around the base of two standard roses. I have reached a stage where I am maintenance weeding-a short-lived victory that I will not take for granted, the garden will run away from me once I am back into studying.

Last weekend I prepared lots and lots of box cuttings. My goal is to plant low borders around my garden beds-it defines them. I also did some cuttings of curry plant and the chilien Guava. I am unimpressed with that plant, having failed to tip prune it to promote bushiness, it has become leggy and pointless. If the cuttings fail I will ditch both plants, if they work, I will make cuttings out of both plants and ensure I prune them more diligently.

Here are three different white roses from the garden.

Blossom

2/10/10

Just read an old post from April, where I described removing jasmine from a cherry tree in Bowral. I worried the tree was beyond hope but the worry was needless, as this picture attests.

Before and after

2/10/10

Here are some before and after shots of a bit of garden next to my driveway. I planted a rose that is ailing-I thought it had died and I almost chucked it, but we'll see how it goes. I also planted a small May bush, taken from a Bowral cutting, a pink pelargonium and some lambs ears.

I am obsessed with geranium/pelargoniums at the moment. This morning T and I went to Geranium Cottage, in Dural, to buy some. I bought the pink one in the picture as well as a variegated scented one that will have mauve flowers and one with deep burgundy leaves. There were to be planted beside the drive as well, but I couldn't bare to have them tucked away where I will hardly ever see them so I think I will put them in the front garden somewhere.