grammyinthegarden: June 2014

My month of living left handed…..

It has been an interesting month to say the least. Surgery on my right hand on the 4^th June so not much gardening done in the past few weeks. It is a thrill though to look back at the photos of a year ago and see the large amount of growth that has taken place in the front garden.

I planted this at the end of May

one month's growth....looking pretty yummy

first light of a frosty morning

the wrens are still about although they are having to share the bird baths with some sparrows
that have now re located to our house

sunrise this morning

a few plants in the front garden that have more than doubled in size in a year

'Robin Gordon'

'Sweet Jane'

I do love cyclamens

my new cluster of pots are mostly doing well....the osmanthus had to be re-potted after a bad wind storm blew it over smashing it's pot. It is now in bud. It has a very sweet fragrant flower, so going past it will be a joy.

I was thrilled to find a beautiful little ‘masdavillea’ in flower. I bought it 18 months ago and it appear to be doing well in my shade house. The other residents of the shade house are also happy. The strikes of the begonias I took last month and also some pieces a friend gave me that she had struck in water are all doing fine.

It has been a rather wet month and so not much watering required in the shade house, but I still like to go for a visit and see what is happening. It is also a little bit warmer in there so a nice place to escape to if it gets too cold or a storm blows up suddenly.

I moved the potted lime to a warmer position. The kumquat near the back wall (where the afternoon sun shines) is doing well so now it has a friend (the lime) sitting in the corner near it. It is looking better already. I also potted up a couple of geraniums to sit with it and make a nice little group.

The vegie garden is looking a bit empty with most things finished and removed. I mixed in last year’s sugar cane mulch and some more fertilizer to get the beds ready for future plantings. We are enjoying eating the kale and the ‘red legs’ silver beet. I bought a big spice pot in the same ox blood colour as my other new pots. It is now planted up with kale (2 different types) and red legs silver beet. It looks good on the deck by the living room window.

It is lovely to see the camellias and azaleas budding up and blooming again. They really are such easy care plants.

Gardening next month will be a challenge as I’m having surgery on my right hand so it will be interesting living left handed for a month or so.

The blue wrens are still enjoying being in the garden even though we cut back the hebe where they love to hide. We had to wait over a year to cut back the over grown hebe. It must be the most visited bush in the garden