Some pictures...

Some misc pictures taken from around the house



Here is one of the plants that Lisa has flagged to have removed. What started as a roughly trimmed hedge about 1.5 meters high as grown to as high as the house. It is pretty ugly and covered on thorns and should make a nice addition to my mulcher






















a pot full of bromeliad that one of my lovely sisters gave me a year or 2 back - it continues to thrive and has been divided into 2 other pots that are about half this size















Some plant that I was given as a bulb. It always had 1 leaf but during the recent rain, the pot (which has no hole in it) filled with water. appears that this plant likes water!














My agave garden out the back. These were taken from "pups" from mum and dads about 2 or so years ago - look closely at the base of the plant and you'll see more pups growing
















My rose garden - it was full of blooms only 2 or 3 weeks ago but the cold has moved in pretty quick. I've planted a new vegie garden under it from seed - peas across the fence on the left, broccoli across the fence on the right, silver beat to the left of the path and lettuce acorss the front right - wish me luck!
















Some fuscha cuttings taken from Sandra's plant took 6 cuttings in total and gave her 2. Note the little flower bud on the top right
















Some butter beans (cherokee wax) growing in a styrofoam container - Note the snail munching on the right. I need to get some sawdust as they apparently hate this
















The nursery... Strawberries on the right - these are about 3 months old and taken from runners. Abelia shrub on the right taken from cuttings about 4 to 5 months ago
















One of the lilys about to come out in flower

Starting the vegie patch and catchup

So, the tomato garden out the front has not been too successful - it is still growing, maybe a bit late in the year for them but the tomatoes are small, still green and not really going that well at all....
So its time to take action - it'll be coming out soon - interesting to note thought that the plants that have not been staked are growing and fruiting twice as well as those that are staked.
In any case, I'll thing twice before trying Roma tomato's - will stick to the Grosse Lisse (sp??)

Last weekend I planted some seed straight into the rose garden - there are currently 4 standard roses. Being standard, there is plenty of room under them for vegies
Planted some peas, silverbeet, broccoli, lettuce and probably some other stuff I've forgotten about now

The broccoli should be fun cos I've never seen it growing and am not sure how big it will get!
As it turns out, lettuce is an all year growing veggie, not just summer - time will tell!

In the patio garden (OK so the pot garden out the back that is away from Buddy's evil little paws), the bromliads are growing like crazy and were separated about a month ago. The lily's are coming out in bright red flowers and in that same garden is a large daisy shrub which is really taking off now too - I'll have to move that elsewhere soon!
The box hedge cuttings that were planted a few months back now appears to be losing some of their green, I hope their not dieing! there's about 10 or so of these and its very hard to tell if they're growing due to how SLOW they grow
I'd also taken some fuchsia cuttings and palogonium cuttings from mum and dad's about a 3 weeks back - these appears to be taking well too with the fuchsias already getting a few flower buds!
Got a styrofoam box with more beans starting to come up there too and have found a name for the hedge plant near the front door with the jasmine looking flowers - it is an Abelia http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1866596.htm
I'd taken cuttings from this about 3 months ago and they've grown about 10 times in size already and every single one went into full flowering about a month ago - taking cuttings from these was pretty straight forward, just snipped about 4 inches from the new growth shoots as they start to firm up a little - I stuck these into a mix of potting mix and peat

It has been raining now for the past few weeks, more on then off, so there's plenty of water and plenty of sunshine between that too - should be good weather for getting things going.

It is mid autumn, the little purple flowers out the front are all out (I'll get a name for these one day!) the carnations are starting to flower, the roses are starting to drop their leaves, but are still blooming.

The lawns are turning quit brown and I believe this is due to lawn grub eating the roots. I sprayed these little suckers last spring, but it turns out that it is pointless doing this then as they are too large and resilient - will need to spray again in in a few months, probably about when its time to spray for bindii. The other option I want to try is using a hessian sack. When dampened and left to sit over night, the grubs come to the top, when the sack is removed, the birds come for a good munch

I also did a bit of pruning/tidy about a month back. Buddy's daisy bush and the crab apple tree got a bit of a going over, it was fun to use the mulcher, but quickly realised that I need more woody plants/trees/shrubs so I can do more mulching!

That's probably about it for now - quite likely my posts won't normally be this long, but there was some catching up to do - I'll try and dig up a few piccies to add in future too


Seeya!