First, please accept my apologies for not writing a blog for
the past few months, life is just so very busy and I am usually exhausted at
the end of day, work in the garden never stops.
I must work through pain in my knees and hips and cannot get
into a specialist until early February, anyway I can still get in a day’s work
every day and have no intention of downsizing at the moment.
What would Judy and I do without our beautiful garden and
plants.
Now to get on with garden news.
In August we had visitors from the Victoria Point Probus Club, no visitors in October and in November we had a return visit from the Lota Community Garden Group.
The Tropical Foliage Festival was held very early November
which was a disappointment as virtually none of my Amorphophallus had come up,
so now I am stuck with about eight trays to try and get rid of. Anyway, we
still took a nice selection of plants and people know that our plants are good.
Dammed hard work getting ready though.
As usual all the fruit trees needed trimming over winter and I cut them back more than usual in order to make it easier for next year.
It was our Granddaughter's Birthday in October so we decided to do a surprise visit to Agnes Water to surprise her and we certainly did so. She was at the beach and I jumped from behind some bushes and really and truly gave her the surprise of her life, one of those memories that will stay for the rest of our lives.
Everything has grown so much with all the rain but that soon stopped in September when we had to start hand watering the garden again.
We had contemplated having a Plant Sale here in November where people could walk the garden for free and hope they would buy a plant, but that changed as we had a massive storm here late November with GIANT HAIL some hailstones measured between 10 to 13 cm wide, it was like someone was throwing bricks on our roof. Damage was 12 broken roof tiles which we were fortunate to find someone to fix two days later. Solar Panels damaged and we think the solar hot water system was also damaged. We have an insurance assessor coming soon. Surprisingly the garden suffered very little damage other than a mass of leaf litter and a few gum branches.
We had a visit from peter and Genya from Lagoon View Nursery and they were happy to dig out some Alpinia 'Big Pink' from a spot in the garden where they had multiplied.
Photo was taken at Lagoon View.
My Amorphophallus collection died back and stored dry for the winter and in September I started to repot. Had some very nice ones in flower.
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