Today is the first day of spring.
Boy, am I glad to see the last of winter.
I have had three bouts
of the Flu after going many years without even catching a common cold.
I am now a bit behind in my garden preparation and really
need to rev things up; trouble is I am still suffering effects of the flu.
With the end of each winter I look at the garden and wonder
how an earth will it be ready for opening in November?
It always seems to work out except 2009 when it did not rain
for seven months.
Talking about rain, we are in a very dry spell at the
moment, six weeks without any rain.
The place is very dry but fortunately we have 107,000 litres
of water stored, it’s just so time consuming hand watering a garden as large as
ours.
After over 20 years of driving up a kerb we finally decided to have it ripped out and redone and concreted.
In-between bouts of flu I replaced the retaining wall
opposite our back patio; it was part of our swimming pool fence and was not
legal. I had to bring the whole thing forward and add another sleeper height. My
main worry was the Cardinal Creeper vine; would I have to cut it back? Fortunately
not but when we eventually sell it will have to go along with other vines and
limbs that are close to the pool.
Digging the holes were the worst job as our ground is solid clay;
it was a crowbar job cm by cm until I reached the desired depth, I was well and
truly worn out by the end of it.
I did two garden presentations, one to the ‘Redlands
Horticultural Society’ and another to the ‘Logan City Garden Club’. Both went
well and nice people.
On a very sad note was the passing of our Queensland ‘Garden
Guru’ Colin Campbell. He was a true gentleman and we were privileged to have
him visit us in 2010 with ‘Gardening Australia’.
All gardeners throughout Australia will miss this fine man.
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