My new home

The front view with a few sons cars parked on lawn. big plans still formulating, but the lawn will all go & perhaps a little more paving where the blue car is for parking.

From garage looking towards road (carpark),  One of my boys has already started to dig a little of the lawn out. 

Two cordyline (I think), alternanthera rubys blush, an azalea were already there. I planted the Grevillea Dorothea Gordon



bought a new tank to collect rainwater from the new shed we installed in the backyard.  The shed ended up being about a metre bigger than I thought we were getting, might have been an intentional mistake by hubby!

Golden cane palm & agapanthus


Backyard view, ugly pool fence,lots of paving & minimal garden, will have to rectify that!  New large man cave, almost touching house & pool.

placing tank in position, way too close to the pool for my liking, mmmm may have to make a decision on pool??

pool looking a lovely shade of green!

water tank in place & fitted up, well done boys!  Discussions to follow on fate of pool!

"Find happiness in ordinary things, and keep your sense of humour"

(Boyd K Packer)

Well, its been some time since I last posted, which is disappointing as I had wanted to post about my new garden right from the start.  But here I am, full of excuses & ready to go again!

I have a new iphone, which I have taken these two photo's with, my camera is flat & I cant find the charger, probably haven't unpacked it yet.  There is quite a few boxes still to unpack as I have completely lost interest in that job & so the charger is somewhere with my jeans, which I do need as winter has arrived!

Cotelydon macrantha (& weeds)

 Anyway I have a lot of early photo's on my camera which I do want to add to my blog, so will eventually get it all sorted & organised!

We have had a beautiful rain & all the farmers & a happy chief pilot are all getting very excited for the coming season.  We are above average rainfall in our area, which hasn't happened in a number of years & it is all looking very promising for the crops.

Grevillea grandiflora - amazing growth in first few months, planted from tube stock
 

Pruning

Another stinker of a day, I have been pruning my grevillea petrophiloides over a couple of days as its such a monster, & still not finished, might have to call the chief in with chainsaw to finish off.

This grevillea is indigenous to our area, which is why it was one of the few healthy plants in the garden when we first arrived, oh & it's also planted right next to the septic!
I let the chooks out that evening & they went wild scratching around looking for insects.