Garden 2

Time for another walk around our garden.  During our summer we had a La Niña weather system meaning more rain (although not as much as they were predicting).  Neither the less, our garden loved the boost in rain and got so much grow on! We've also been busy weeding and planting and pruning!

We found two beautiful fig trees at the dump! They were looking a little worse for wear but we knew we could bring them back to life.  Whilst waiting to source proper planters for them, we found them temporary homes.  The fig above was living in a very square box :P

We found planters! We just happened to be looking on FB marketplace at just the right time to score these huge beauties for a steal!

Our front garden getting a grow on

This is one of my favourite plants - a weeping tea tree!  I've been waiting patiently for it to reach my height and it finally has 1.7m!

Ben and I did a super crazy thing, we went and dug out a free ponytail palm on fb marketplace.  I'm not sure you can tell from this photo but this thing was WAYYY Too heavy and big (3m+).  It was insanely stupid and also my new favourite plant!!

Look how friggen gorgeous that thing is!! We were going to put it in our front garden but Ben's mum chastised us for trying to jam more plants in that section and instead suggested the placement above. Best idea ever, I LURVE it there! Perfection! 

The bamboo battle continues

We have successfully made a big dent with only a quarter left to do before we can start thinking about our deck!

This shot above was taken in dec 2020

This was taken March 2021! Bamboo grows fast!

Our front door garden is coming along nicely

Dec 2020 to...

March 2021! Grow bougainvillea, grow!

Ben also got this free, much smaller (fit in his corolla!) ponytail palm.  They do exceptionally well for transplanting/transporting because they have a small root structure (they store their water in their bulbous base).

A shot of our side front garden and my passionfruit starting to take over everything.

I have four vines in total but this one (down on our back fence) is doing the best, currently brimming with fruit!!

The prettiest flower!

This passionfruit vine is definitely trying to take over the avo tree which was already fighting a battle with an umbrella tree. We shall prune in the future!

Look at all that passionfruit! I planted the vines not long after we first moved in (roughly 1.5 years ago).  The vine took around a year to start flowering and now fruiting 6 months later

A shot of our crotons in the front side yard.  You can see the wisteria trying to take over everything.  

This shot was taken in dec 2020 and shows our back jungle section.  

This shows the other half

And this shows our jungle section 3 months later after all that rain.  Look how lush and amazing it's looking!

Joop!

Not a big fan of having her picture taken :P

And the final shot (just to the left of the crotons) shows my lychee tree (on the left) and a flame tree gifted to us by Ben's mum on the right.  Both plants are a little hard to spot with all that wisteria spilling in behind!