Gardening advice please

[polksaladallie]

I moved here because there was no gardening to do, but I have an empty space on the patio and have bought a few pots.

They are plastic, 450 x 18.  I have given away all my gardening books, and would like to put some perennials in them.  I don't want to fiddle about with annuals.  Sub-tropics, afternoon sun.

I have herbs in terracotta pots.

Anybody have any suggestions?   TIA

[cherry*135]

Have you had a lot of rain too, the last few months Lurker? Resulting in ideal weed growing conditions...

[lurker172602]

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@am*3 wrote:

Have you had a lot of rain too, the last few months Lurker? Resulting in ideal weed growing conditions...

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Yes, yes!  That is exactly the reason!  Nothing at all to do with my basic laziness and intense dislike of gardening 

[lind9650]

I need to clean a small strip of my garden, but every time I walk outside it starts to rain.

Joono, the common name for your pretty blue flowers is Morning Glory.

Google it for Images and see how many diffrent colours there are. I love it, but some places regard it as a weed.

Erica

[j*oono]

We call the one with large trumpet flowers morning glory Erica.  It is a bit of a weed because it will take over and smother plants around it.

This one is a small flower about the diameter of a 20c piece.

[j*oono]

This is another very pretty perennial that is good for pots and hanging baskets.  My mother-in-law gave me a pot at Christmas with two different colours in it and it looked so pretty and delicate I thought I would kill it but it's still flowering like mad.

This one is mine.  Only the purple is flowering at the moment but there is also a pink one in there.  It also comes in so many different colours.

Calibrachoa x Hybrida

Just after Christmas I saw some at the Bunnings nursery in gorgeous red.

[jean2579]

Lurker, I have one of those pixies, he charges $30 for an hour and comes once a month . Worth every cent.

[***super_nova***]

The only pixies around here charge more like $50/hour and will not do weeding  😞 . They like the macho stuff; lawn mowers, brush cutters and weed killers.

[lurker172602]

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@jean2579 wrote:
Lurker, I have one of those pixies, he charges $30 for an hour and comes once a month . Worth every cent.

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I think I might get one of those to come on a Thursday while OH is at golf and he'll think I did it myself 

Nah he won't, he knows me better than that 

[lind9650]

There was a time when Scouts and Cubs used to come around looking for jobs to earn some money they collected for charities. A Bob a Job it was called. I would gladly give a few dollars to a youngster to weed my bit of garden.

What are the Scouts and Cubs doing now to raise money? Or are they not interested any more to help others?

Erica

[azureline**]

No advice from me, I have some empty pots though.......................

I have a mower woman and a whipper snipper man 🙂  (my sis and her OH)................ my sister can't stand to see weeds, lol. She can often be seen with a kettle of boiling water walking around the path, patio and pool paving.