May was a very busy month for us.
First was a presentation to the ‘Ipswich Bromeliad Society’
it went really well and everyone enjoyed my presentation and Judy’s plants.
We then had a large group through from ‘Highfields Garden
Club’ in Toowoomba, there were 59 people on the bus and our garden was their
only stop over so they stayed for quite some time.
Only one problem was Judy had an argument with one of visitors
about an Aristolochia gigantea, she thought it was illegal and Judy said it
wasn’t, anyway this person upon arriving home sent our local council an email
stating that we were growing an illegal plant. So around comes the council
inspector to check us out, all good. Some people are just plain NARKS.
Our Triplaris was in full flower.
We then had two bus trips from a respite care center, not
really interested in gardening but made for a nice day out for them, more a
community service on our part.
I replaced the roof on Judy’s shade house, a Macadamia
branch had fallen and flattened the roof, that was a big job and also built a
couple of plant stands for her.
Little bit dangerous as I had to cut down a massive branch
which was difficult to do without causing further damage, anyway managed to do
it with a couple of cuts and a fall into the drain hitting my head quite hard
on a piece of timber.
Seyrigia 'Snowsticks'
Lots of cutting back and trimming as the wet summer made
everything grow much more than usual.
May was quite dry and it was back to hand watering the
garden.
