<< Lots of digging and pruning. On the left of this bed is a murraya, then a hibiscus "Hiawatha" then duranta and at far end planted a curly leaf acalypha. This bed is on the south side of the house so it only gets sun early morning and late afternoon in wintertime.

 >>More digging and pruning. Far left is a creamy flowered hibiscus, close to a brunfelsia, next is a variegated hisbiscus, then a thunbergia, and then a lillypilly. I dug out all the grass that had invaded and choked the shrubs, pruned all except the right hand end hibiscus and sprinkled blood and bone, and watered in seaweed fertiliser. Have planted pink gazania at the right end, will sow winter seeds yet to be decided which.

<< the vegie patch is slowly improving all the time, i've dug in a load of manure and grass clippings and turn it over and water it once a week. The bird seed is growing nicely, and next week i'll sow some other green manure maybe buckwheat and vetch.
<< The mound next to it is my prep for another vegie patch. I laid newspapers then a huge amount (4 large bags) of fresh horse manure, than completely covered it with 1hrs worth of mown grass clippings.


I've taken cuttings of the calliandra to help establish the hedge that we want to follow the fence line for privacy because the block is so open at the front. Already i've planted tecomaria, plumbago, westringia, lillypillys, bouganvillea and clumping bamboo.