Grandma's garden

One of the things I loved the most at my grandparents was their garden. So when we left I carefully took some cuttings, to plant at my new house. I'd love to keep their garden growing for yet another generation to enjoy.

Today I planted it all in pots at the new house. Will all the rain forecasted, I am hoping they will take to the soil and start to grow for me here.

From the back door

The front garden, the bush near the driveway

and the front of the house on the carport side

and these rose clippings from the one remaining (incredibly overgrown) rosebush in the backyard. I hope they'll bring some happiness to my life. ❤

Gardening

What do you do while you're in isolation? The to-do list of course! There are a few things that need doing in the garden before we can sell the house, which I had mapped out in my head already - so I got to work on them.

Here's how this side used to look, we've cleared the rocks and planted agapanthus in their place. The geraniums were pulled out and potted and eventually removed. The poinsettias were swapped into the front garden at Doug's mums house and the red leaved plants moved this week. 

There was some of the strawberry beds that didn't have any strawberries left in them, so I did a pull apart and re-position of all of them... they are now all full and even. After all the other plants were moved, these beautiful trailing leaves all look lovely, moving through the bed.

The back fence garden bed has been empty since we removed the fountain, so I stole these red leaved plants that have been growing in the side bed since we bought the house and replanted them in the sun, where I am hoping they will flourish!

They have wilted since, but I am very much hoping they will take and start to stand up tall again soon.

That's how the back fence used to look!

This plant in the large pot used to be in Doug's mums garden - and although she was not a gardener, since I moved something else into it's place and brought it home, it has flourished and bloomed... and it's a piece of her that I want to keep. Everything I want to take with us, is now in a pot. 

 

The grass has finally grown in well and looks lovely as you can see in the background here. Garden, sorted!

a new garden bed

i looove our local free page. it is part of the buy nothing project worldwide (which you can read about here) and is wonderful, that you can ask for items if you need something and you can give items too. i have received many wonderful things from the page and this week i was thrilled to receive a whole buncg of freshly dug up agapanthus plants. they are one of my absolute favourites. i love the flowers on them especially and am not even distreet in my efforts at the chapel each year when they are flowering, i have a pair of scissors in my glovebox and i cut flowers and take them home to enjoy.

a lot of the gardens have come a long way in this house... this bed down the kitchen side of the house was originally brick edged and filled with riverstones. when we pulled out that awful fountain we had, i dug out all the stones surrounding both that and in this garden bed and sold them on marketplace (hilariously to someone that lives on the other side of our park!) and it has sat empty ever since. 

not anymore! after collecting these 4 bags of plants, separating them and trimming them all back to make the root system small enough to plant... which took long enough on its own...

i pulled out all the bricks and relocated them to the back of the house (i will be discretely throwing them in the skip bin when they start on our bathrooms in a few weeks) before planting these babies!

and i am so so happy! looks a million times better already, especially with the bricks gone. all clean and ready to thrive! they should get just enough sun through the shade cloth to keep them happy and i can't wait to have agapanthus flowers of my very own. let's hope my somewhat green thumb of late is still working.

hooray for being the queen of thrift. free is me!

my strawberry patch

a while back, a friend from church kindly gifted me a bunch of strawberry seedlings, ready to grow. over the past months, i have watered them and looked after them (a first for me, i have never really been into gardening...) and lo and behold i not only kept them alive, but they made it to the point that they were big enough to transplant into the hanging gardens in our backyard.

mum helped me mix the soil up (with some additions so that they might actually flourish) and get it all ready and then we planted them into the planters. i'm ashamed to admit that i actually really enjoyed myself and now want to plant all kinds of other things in my backyard... someone stop me!

i'm excited to see if they actually take off and provide us with some strawberries at some stage. the kids and i would love it. fingers crossed!

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update - 18th january 2020

we finally got some strawberries! alex, madeline and i had one each and they were sweet and delicious. hopefully we will get some more.