My day

After several hours during the week clearing and cleaning up a messy garden my day started like this before and after 002.JPG

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Sandy I assumed that might be the prob, I cut it all out a few months ago, looks like I will have to attack it again.

Light showers here also, we do need the rain but it's also the local school's produce day, they hold one every 2 months so the locals can come along and sell their homemade/grown goods. 🙂

 

Enjoy your walk 🙂

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Good morning to the early birds Sunday is for a late rise here today Woman Wink the cooler morning sure is relief from the humid days we have had.

 

Pamper day, so I had better get myself moving and get a few chores done here before I set sail out to the Princess.

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Good morninng Freddie 🙂 Enjoy your morning with your mum, catch up with you later hopefully, take care

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I had a passionfruit vine in Canberra, so they are pretty hardy ... BUT I must mention that it was on trellis next to a wall, so it got some shelter. AWESOME flowers, like little alien spaceships.
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Another busy day here....3 grand children playing while I have breakfast. Hoping the rain eases up when we leave to go play and walk puppies at the rescue today or it will be boots and coats and towels. Silly me forgot there was washing on  the line last night so that's getting an extra rinse.

Opened the rabbit hutch but Mr Bunny was not keen on getting wet .... he has so much character. When I rescued him earlier this year he had been kept I  a cat carrier, no straw or hay, so dirty and thin but now he has a new coat, all fluffy and healthy and friendly.20140805_154529.jpg

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Good morning everyone.

 

I  was awake at 3.00am - went back to bed about 7 - second attempt now.  Ready and rearing to go outside, and it's raining! Beautiful fresh rainwater for the plants.

 

I've put a couple of indoor plants outside both for the moisture and to wash the dust off the leaves.  Smiley Very Happy About the only dusting that'll get done today.

 

I planted about 1/2 my seedlings yesterday evening around the new fish pond as space fillers until I figure out the screening arrangement for the pond.  

 

So the visual on this sloped site is:

 

4 palms that look like telegraph poles with a huge old fashioned purple bouganvillea winding its way between the trunks.  Then the mauve agapanthus with their newly budding arrowheads.  On the lower level the bench with the native violets under it.  I dotted purple salvia, mauve verbena, and pink/purple/white alyssum surrounding the kidney shaped pond.  I might get around to planting 2-3 yellow large marigolds for some "oomph" colour impact.

 

In another section of the border garden, I plan on making a "Christmas themed" bedding area between the dark green leaved vibernum tinus  with the Red Salvias and white alyssum.  

 

The tomato plants are in and should be enjoying this rain.

 

DEB

 

 

 

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morning everyone  Smiley Happy

 

 

well, I spoke too soon about the rain, we had heaps all night and the garden got a really good soaking. No point in rescuing the washing now

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Cute bunnies twinkles.

 

I have been thinking about the fence planting Bushie. (nice crunchy looking frost you got there, by the way) I am reluctant to grow anything on a fence myself due to 2 things.  Eventually some plants will just pull a fence over (wisteria-like) and the evergreen plants can keep the air flow from the wood and the wood rots.  

 

Our old family home had  star jasmine on a 3 metre high x 10 metre long trellis for privacy (about 40 years old) on 6x2 hardwood uprights with 8 guage wire mesh.  It was never pruned.  It should have been.  I took some layered offshoots and now have them in pots.  They flower on new growth.  (Our local Council has them mass planted on traffic islands and they get pruned annually). 

 

Not knowing the direction of the fencing (east/west; north/south?) I was initially thinking of a espaliered fruit trees which I think can have their own beauty when bare.  I know they are considered a noxious weed in some areas, but an espaliered cotoneaster might be a thought.  Another more gentle vine could be the native hardenbergia which flowers in the winter.

 

DEB

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Bushies another plant to consider is potato vine, it looks similar to jasmine, with small white flowers, is evergreen and very profilic. It's perfect for fence screening. Have a look at google images.

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LOL Snap Debra, I was thinking about a potato vine last night lol   When I lived the high country of Vic, I saw a few growing there. Yes, they did look pretty and there is plenty of frost up that way.

 

DEB I understand what you mean by not growing vines on fences, but it needs something to hide the  coldness of the fence. The mental pic of your garden is lovely, those colours will combine beautifully 🙂  If you are going to plant Marigolds, perhaps pop a cpl beside your tomatoes as well.

 

This is my poor old Passionfruit vine, I think it has seen better days. I am not sure if I mentioned that the previous owner ( apparently ) used to hack everything to the ground, the fruit trees, the Banksia roses, the passionfruit vine and anything else he could get his clippers on 😞  The neighbours were ecstatic to see the Banksia roses blooming this year, they hadn't seen them like that in all the time he lived here.

 

 

 

 

 

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