Garden Photos
Last weekend there was finally some nice weather to take photos of my front garden :D
Before and afters. I've had this vision since I bought the place and it's come up just as I planned. No more fug, boring tree that drops leaves all year. Instead I have my citrus, eee! The tangerine is closest to the house, and that's flowering so I might even get fruit off of it this season, so that'd be awesome. Lemon tree in the middle, then the lime over to the right. Both of them have loads of new growth and even a few buds. I'll be so stoked if I get a lemon or a lime this year. They're not really supposed to start fruiting until they've been in the ground for a couple of years, but you never know!
Succulents! I've got all the taller ones at this end, tapering to a point sort of down the other end with the lower level ones. The big red-purple ones down this end and the silvery one in the middle of that clump were already here--you can see them in pots in the 'before' photos above--and the rest I bought.
Artistic lines of red pebbles I got from the creek down the bottom of the gorge behind me. The big lump is where the tree stump is. You'd never even know >>
Succulents! The theory is that they'll require zero maintenance. I did literally nothing to the old ones that were in pots for the entire time I've lived here, and they look even better than when I moved in. Mum watered them once last summer. I think it's a pretty fair assumption that now they're in the ground, they'll fare even better without me doing a thing. That said, the aloe vera (second photo, to the right of the purplish looking one) is possibly dead. It started turning brown within, like, an hour of me planting it, and its roots were nearly non-existent when I took it out of the pot, so I don't know that it was particularly well-off when I bought it. Oh well. Also, the little pot with the taller cactus sticking out is the one I bought for my desk at work years ago. Took it home when I was made redundant, but then never took it back, and it's been living at Mum and Dad's ever since. So Mum brought it around so I can add it to the succulent garden. I'm scared to take it out. It's spiky and fragile :<
Close-ups! Love my garden~
Before and afters. I've had this vision since I bought the place and it's come up just as I planned. No more fug, boring tree that drops leaves all year. Instead I have my citrus, eee! The tangerine is closest to the house, and that's flowering so I might even get fruit off of it this season, so that'd be awesome. Lemon tree in the middle, then the lime over to the right. Both of them have loads of new growth and even a few buds. I'll be so stoked if I get a lemon or a lime this year. They're not really supposed to start fruiting until they've been in the ground for a couple of years, but you never know!
Succulents! I've got all the taller ones at this end, tapering to a point sort of down the other end with the lower level ones. The big red-purple ones down this end and the silvery one in the middle of that clump were already here--you can see them in pots in the 'before' photos above--and the rest I bought.
Artistic lines of red pebbles I got from the creek down the bottom of the gorge behind me. The big lump is where the tree stump is. You'd never even know >>
Succulents! The theory is that they'll require zero maintenance. I did literally nothing to the old ones that were in pots for the entire time I've lived here, and they look even better than when I moved in. Mum watered them once last summer. I think it's a pretty fair assumption that now they're in the ground, they'll fare even better without me doing a thing. That said, the aloe vera (second photo, to the right of the purplish looking one) is possibly dead. It started turning brown within, like, an hour of me planting it, and its roots were nearly non-existent when I took it out of the pot, so I don't know that it was particularly well-off when I bought it. Oh well. Also, the little pot with the taller cactus sticking out is the one I bought for my desk at work years ago. Took it home when I was made redundant, but then never took it back, and it's been living at Mum and Dad's ever since. So Mum brought it around so I can add it to the succulent garden. I'm scared to take it out. It's spiky and fragile :<
Close-ups! Love my garden~