Gardens

@Former-Member ,

All the best with your gardening... I can't say I have a green thumb whatsoever.

Hi @Former-Member @tyme

My garden is still green thanks as a stalwart extended family member watered for me.

I seem to lean toward roses, herbaceous perennials and want more indigenous plants for insects and birdlife.

I'm not allowed to do much yet but today I deadheaded my belladonna lilies and trimmed back some roses hoping for some autumn flowers.

I love trees and there are some in the common garden. I have a big native frangipani too.

While I was away some things I had in water in the kitchen did send out roots so I'll have to plant them out or pot them.

I have some 2 storey townhouses going up next door so I'll have to rethink the back garden and take some things out to get more light into the kitchen window.

What do you plan for your garden @Former-Member ?

@Dimity

Plans for bed under front windows

- keep the native rosemary

- remove the 3 chrysanthemum plants (hence the cuttings)

- move the 5 kalanchoe plants. Replant 3 (maybe 4) into different spots in this garden patch

- buy terracotta pots and fill with pansies, violas and lisianthus

both sides of driveway in narrow beds

- remove the 5 Daisy plants

- plant kalanchoe

front of the unit gets a lot of sun

@Former-Member your pots sound lovely. I had a nice orange kalanchoe but gave it away. I'm enjoying my sedums at the moment. And a red salvia and a bright blue salvia.

@Dimity Has taken me a while to try to work out which flowering plants will suit the fairy garden theme mushroom houses I’ve got.

I have 3 metal trellis on my back fence on which currently are starting to jasmines. I’d prefer to have evergreen snail creeper growing. Remember Nana having one.

@Dimity The first photos are what the garden bed looked like about this time last year just after everything was planted. The Daisy plant is the smallest any of them grew, is growing beside driveway in area 45cm wide. The dark photo I took late at night and shows the solar lights

@Dimity Photo of garden under front windows as it is this morning.

other photos of another Daisy plant I cut back, this one this morning. Still 2 more to trim on other side of driveway…. another time

last 3 photos are before and after (plant was approx 150cm wide) and what I cut off

@Former-Member hopefully with a bit of TLC the daisies will quickly bud and flower again. With such a small space it must be a challenge to have colour and interest but I see the fairy garden and toadstool theme.

I just pulled out one of my snapdragons, it was over the hill. Hopefully my lambsear will now recover from the crowding.

Another warm day tomorrow then 36 later in the week. I'm looking forward to having some help Thursday. Weeding, sweeping leaves and perhaps cleaning a couple of windows. I've asked for quotes to dig out some now unwanted plants and change over a couple of doorknobs - it may not be for a week or two.

@Former-Member I think Diggers Club have snail creeper - not sure if it's plants or seeds.

I’ve left lot of new growth on each stem of the daisies @Dimity. Plan is first cooler weekend all the Daisy plants will be dug up as I don’t want them. Neighbours on one side will be taken them to their daughters home to replant.

area under front windows is small (approx 300cm x 220cm), doesn’t worry me though. It’s only been within last few years I’ve had lucky growing plants.

these are the rough draft plus legend for what I’d like to do with the area. If their daughter can request gets approved I’ll need to get some help with parts of the idea.

the red dots represent the solar lights and mushroom houses

im not looking forward to Friday, I’ve got croquet match starting 10:30am in area with almost no shade plus have therapist appointment at 4pm. 🥵

due to expected temperatures I’ve seen, I’m looking forward to about 10 days from now.

I haven’t heard of The Diggers Club, will have a look within next couple of days. Thanks for the information.

best of luck with the quote and having the work done