Late Blog for Garden News.

 

Well, it has now been over three months since I had my right hip replaced and I feel about 70% better, hopefully give or take I will be fully fit by Christmas.

My Surgeon said I have made a spectacular recovery, I tend to agree as pain level has been minimum, and I was off using walking aids after three weeks.

I am back in the garden trying to working full time and have done a couple of landscaping jobs and a few trips to the dump.

Just much slower than usual and more careful as I do not want a fall.

The bad news is that I had X-ray's done last week on my knees and yes, I have severe Osteo Arthritis in both knees, so looks like new knees in the new year.

I have seen my surgeon who thinks I have 12 months before getting my knees fixed, not sure if that is good or bad news.

AS for my hip four months later, I still have some pain but not to the extent it was before, I believe it can be 12 months before the hip is completely pain free.

Anyway, onto the garden.

In July we went as usual to the Nambour Garden Show, parking was a nightmare and I did not think the show was as good as past years.

In August we had the Sunshine Coast Tropical Garden Society visit, a nice group of 40 people, all garden lovers.

In September we had a visit from Carindale Rotary Club.

We took delivery of 30 bales of Sugar Cane mulch and it has been quite a job to spread it as there is so much bending which does not help my hip.

One of the jobs I have done was to replace timber and stones around the back of the bromeliad house and spray ‘Stone Set” hoping it will stop the pebbles going on the lawn.

In October we are hosted a meeting of the International Cordyline Society, a great group of keen tropical garden lovers, always pleased to see them here.

It has been quite a hard four months as the last rain we had was in late July, so much hand watering to do which takes up so much time, fortunately it has started to rain this week and the garden and us are enjoying it.