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Aug. 1st, 2011 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pinepigs_gardenI'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!
This is what the new back fence looks like, here I am standing just inside the back door. There are some plastic pots hiding behind the grill & the recycle bin.
This is under the kitchen window. The 2 dead-looking sticks are the Japanese maples.
Here I've stepped onto the path and am looking at the (worse-for-wear) fence and towards our neighbor's in #1:
If I swivel the opposite direction, this is looking down the path kind of towards our back lawn & unit #3. You can see the Takanini camelia clearly, and just on the other side of the garbage bin is the Sugar and Spice camelia. You also get another view of the worm farm.
If I stand up on our back lawn by the washline, this is the view towards the house/backdoor. You get an idea of the state of the lawn and the constant water on the path.
This is standing at the fence by unit #3 and looking up towards the back lawn. You can see the cauliflower peeking out of the first planter against the fence, the dahlias, mandarin tree & 2 of the potato bags (which until today both held 3 cauliflowers between the 2 of them). You also get an idea of the slope of the back lawn.
This is right next to #3's fence and looking down the path. Another shot of the manuka and misc stuff, as well as the bad state of the lawn :(
This is near our shed and looking towards #3. You've got the manuka & misc stuff on the left, dahlias and misc stuff on the right.
This is near our computer room window and looking down the path towards our house. Roses, bromeliad and Sugar and Spice camelia on your right, Navel orange, dahlias, lemon and misc other stuff on your left.
Lastly, this is looking up towards the washline and back fence. The feijoa tree is the olive-y looking one on the right, the citric acid free orange is in the foreground on the left and the Navel orange is in the foreground centre/right.
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!
This is what the new back fence looks like, here I am standing just inside the back door. There are some plastic pots hiding behind the grill & the recycle bin.
This is under the kitchen window. The 2 dead-looking sticks are the Japanese maples.
Here I've stepped onto the path and am looking at the (worse-for-wear) fence and towards our neighbor's in #1:
If I swivel the opposite direction, this is looking down the path kind of towards our back lawn & unit #3. You can see the Takanini camelia clearly, and just on the other side of the garbage bin is the Sugar and Spice camelia. You also get another view of the worm farm.
If I stand up on our back lawn by the washline, this is the view towards the house/backdoor. You get an idea of the state of the lawn and the constant water on the path.
This is standing at the fence by unit #3 and looking up towards the back lawn. You can see the cauliflower peeking out of the first planter against the fence, the dahlias, mandarin tree & 2 of the potato bags (which until today both held 3 cauliflowers between the 2 of them). You also get an idea of the slope of the back lawn.
This is right next to #3's fence and looking down the path. Another shot of the manuka and misc stuff, as well as the bad state of the lawn :(
This is near our shed and looking towards #3. You've got the manuka & misc stuff on the left, dahlias and misc stuff on the right.
This is near our computer room window and looking down the path towards our house. Roses, bromeliad and Sugar and Spice camelia on your right, Navel orange, dahlias, lemon and misc other stuff on your left.
Lastly, this is looking up towards the washline and back fence. The feijoa tree is the olive-y looking one on the right, the citric acid free orange is in the foreground on the left and the Navel orange is in the foreground centre/right.