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Garden at 23 7 11
Aug. 1st, 2011 03:57 pmI'm home sick (again). I had to put the garbage out and take it to the curb so I took 10 minutes to take advantage of the nice weather. I've been inside all day, all weekend, trying to get on top of this cold. I figured pottering for 10 minutes wasn't going to make me worse, since I had to go out anyway.
I managed to chop the mustard in 1 plastic planter and 2 potato bags down and bury (needs to now sit about 6 weeks from what I understand so it can break down fully before being planted in). I weeded one plastic pot across from the back door and transplanted 2 all-season baby cauliflower plants and 1 baby snow ball cauliflower plant. The lawn is still saturated but not as bad as it was last weekend, the last couple of days of dry weather are helping.
As mentioned previously, here's some photos of how the back area looks right now. I took these around 23/7. There's a lot so I'll put most behind the cut.
This camelia has a wonderful scent and simple flowers. It makes me think of a fairy-tree. It's a weeping style, small oblong leaves with small, simple flowers. It sits outside our bathroom window and last weekend I kept looking at the dendrobium orchid I have in there to see if it was flowering, the scent was that strong! It took me a day before I realised where the scent was coming from.
This is another of our camelias, called Takanini. The company that bred it used to have a 'store' in Takanini, a place they had the camelias planted so you could walk around and see what mature specimens looked like. We both liked the double style and the colour in this.
A cherry blossom! This is a tiny tree I got originally because I wanted to learn bonsai but didn't get into it. The cherry has shot a branch straight up into the lemon tree and I didn't realise this had flowered!
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I managed to chop the mustard in 1 plastic planter and 2 potato bags down and bury (needs to now sit about 6 weeks from what I understand so it can break down fully before being planted in). I weeded one plastic pot across from the back door and transplanted 2 all-season baby cauliflower plants and 1 baby snow ball cauliflower plant. The lawn is still saturated but not as bad as it was last weekend, the last couple of days of dry weather are helping.
As mentioned previously, here's some photos of how the back area looks right now. I took these around 23/7. There's a lot so I'll put most behind the cut.
This camelia has a wonderful scent and simple flowers. It makes me think of a fairy-tree. It's a weeping style, small oblong leaves with small, simple flowers. It sits outside our bathroom window and last weekend I kept looking at the dendrobium orchid I have in there to see if it was flowering, the scent was that strong! It took me a day before I realised where the scent was coming from.
This is another of our camelias, called Takanini. The company that bred it used to have a 'store' in Takanini, a place they had the camelias planted so you could walk around and see what mature specimens looked like. We both liked the double style and the colour in this.
A cherry blossom! This is a tiny tree I got originally because I wanted to learn bonsai but didn't get into it. The cherry has shot a branch straight up into the lemon tree and I didn't realise this had flowered!
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