New Plants

Dad gave me some plants he had been nurturing for quite some time, a little pot bound & in need of planting out, I am very happy to oblige as I desperately need to fill some gaps.

Chamelaucium uncinatum purple pride aka Geraldton wax.  Endemic to Western Australia, its almost mandatory to have a geraldton wax in the garden somewhere, they are so gorgeous when grown & in full bloom, beautiful flowers for the vase & so hardy once established.  

Chamelaucium unicinatum

There he is looking a little forlorn but natives are fast growers & this time next year it will be at least double this size.  In this picture also I have an Alogyne, Acacia, Conostylis, Hebe & Luecadendron.  Front western corner next to footpath.

Mum was a little reluctant to part with this pretty Leptospermum scorparian, Ashburton wax aka New Zealand tea tree, but it grows to 2m in height & they have no room left in their garden, so lucky me!

The tea tree is also planted in the front garden, but closer to the house.  I wanted to get them in quickly as we are expecting some rain tomorrow, hopefully it will go east as well.

Front Garden

My Red Flowering Gum, which is going to have orange flowers has some wonderful new growth

Corymbia Ficifolia

This plant was in the letter box planter when we bought the house, there were two of them, but one has died, not sure what it is, maybe a syzygium, but not sure, looks like it has responded to my pruning though.  I have planted it in the front garden just to the right of the red flowering gum.

Also out front, quite close to the verge I planted this silver trim agave, the ticket says grows to 1m so a bit smaller than the normal agave.

Agave Silver Trim

Just next to the agave I popped in a Duranta stentostachya - sheena's minigold, which only grows to 60cm high by 60cm wide. The gorgeous yellow foliage should contrast nicely with the hebe & alternanthera I have planted close by.

Duranta Stenostacha - Sheena's minigold

Rather a pathetic looking little Acacia limelight, but I like to buy my plants as small as I can because I feel they do better in the long run, or is it that Im just to stingy to pay for bigger ones!

Acacia Cognata - Limelight

Low view across front door garden towards front door!

Alternanthera ruby something?, salvia love & wishes

Fitzy side garden

Ive called this garden border my Fitzy Side Garden as my neighbours are the Fitzgeralds & that made sense to me!  In here are two gorgeous rocks!! Hahahaha, no seriously I have planted an acacia, euphorbia, Leucadendron, scaevola & salvia, not that you can really tell any of that at the moment.

But you can see some of the paving of my little path which Im quite pleased with.

Below is the other part of the border, here we have cordyline, alstoemeria,  osteospermum, pittosporum, aloe, & agapanthus.

We have had a lovely drop of rain, 20mls on top of these little lovely's which should settle them in nicely.

Rain, Rain, glorious rain!

My planting progress has come to a halt, but thats fine as we have had in excess of 50 beautiful mls of precipitation, this June.

I am most excited to see the water pooling on top as this indicates my Gin Gin loam has some clay content, yay!  We also had a small amount of hail too!

Got the backyard covered.

A lovely light rain has started to fall just as we finished raking out the good dirt, I hope it keeps on coming!

Acacia podalyiriifolia - Queensland silver wattle, ready for planting!

Euphorbia Ascot Rainbow, also ready for planting, It seems Ive waited so long, I just want to get all my plants in the ground, but I must show restraint & do it properly  so I wont have to spend next winter shifting everything.