Garden pics
For now, here's a few of it in its newly cleared state. It's hard to tell just how overgrown it was from these "after" shots; I may do another post if I can find a bunch of photos showing just how bad it was.
Our garden gate - pre-pruning, we could only open it about sixty degrees.
Standing in the same position as the gate photo, but ninety degrees clockwise. The grass was waist high, and the table was half obscured by the climbing rose. There was also a self-seeded plum tree next to the lilac in the centre that was taller than the house. The plan is to build two raised vegetable gardens in the front yard. The table will be removed - the stump is rotten - but we may buy a table and chairs to replace it.
Turned another ninety degrees - the path to the back of the house. The grass that was growing up between the bricks in large clumps is all gone, and the garden hacked back to the path's edge. I will mention that this is the one area that hasn't been scoured for invasive plants - most of the ground level foliage you can see past the yellow daisy bush right in the centre in the garden bed is morning glory.
Down the path, looking further down the fence. The thin, twiggy green thing a couple of inches from the right is the rose that I plan on moving. About an inch further is a forked stump - that's all that's left from the four metre in diameter and taller than me box bush. Right in the corner of the yard is where the thicket of sacred bamboo was. That's where the compost heap will be going. The circular slab with the birdbath was a waist-high nest of agapanthas and honeysuckle and ivy. It was so dense and high that the birdbath was completely obscured. We're planning on making it a herb garden, probably with a rock feature made from the local quartz.
Turn ninety degrees anticlockwise, and there's our water pump under the top tank. It was almost completely obscured by morning glory. My stepdad removed the morning glory, and, unfortunately, the beautiful, strongly scented mint that lived under there, too. We're hoping the mint will grow back. If not, we'll probably replant.
Standing right between the water tanks, looking up the other side of the house. The long term plan is to remove the hedge against the wall (it doesn't flower, it doesn't fruit, it just grows and needs pruning) and replace it with a feijoa (pineapple guava) hedge that we can harvest from. You can see our gorgeous red rose bush in the distance.
And up the side of the house to the front yard again. I'm standing right where I'm going to plant the sad rose from the back yard, in the hopes that it will climb or support itself on the front fence and fill the gap between the pink climbing rose and the red rose bush. The little roped off bit in the garden is to protect the two silverbeet plants that actually sprouted (the entirety of this season's productivity) from the dogs running all over them.
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Our garden gate - pre-pruning, we could only open it about sixty degrees.
Standing in the same position as the gate photo, but ninety degrees clockwise. The grass was waist high, and the table was half obscured by the climbing rose. There was also a self-seeded plum tree next to the lilac in the centre that was taller than the house. The plan is to build two raised vegetable gardens in the front yard. The table will be removed - the stump is rotten - but we may buy a table and chairs to replace it.
Turned another ninety degrees - the path to the back of the house. The grass that was growing up between the bricks in large clumps is all gone, and the garden hacked back to the path's edge. I will mention that this is the one area that hasn't been scoured for invasive plants - most of the ground level foliage you can see past the yellow daisy bush right in the centre in the garden bed is morning glory.
Down the path, looking further down the fence. The thin, twiggy green thing a couple of inches from the right is the rose that I plan on moving. About an inch further is a forked stump - that's all that's left from the four metre in diameter and taller than me box bush. Right in the corner of the yard is where the thicket of sacred bamboo was. That's where the compost heap will be going. The circular slab with the birdbath was a waist-high nest of agapanthas and honeysuckle and ivy. It was so dense and high that the birdbath was completely obscured. We're planning on making it a herb garden, probably with a rock feature made from the local quartz.
Turn ninety degrees anticlockwise, and there's our water pump under the top tank. It was almost completely obscured by morning glory. My stepdad removed the morning glory, and, unfortunately, the beautiful, strongly scented mint that lived under there, too. We're hoping the mint will grow back. If not, we'll probably replant.
Standing right between the water tanks, looking up the other side of the house. The long term plan is to remove the hedge against the wall (it doesn't flower, it doesn't fruit, it just grows and needs pruning) and replace it with a feijoa (pineapple guava) hedge that we can harvest from. You can see our gorgeous red rose bush in the distance.
And up the side of the house to the front yard again. I'm standing right where I'm going to plant the sad rose from the back yard, in the hopes that it will climb or support itself on the front fence and fill the gap between the pink climbing rose and the red rose bush. The little roped off bit in the garden is to protect the two silverbeet plants that actually sprouted (the entirety of this season's productivity) from the dogs running all over them.
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