October to December Garden News 2024

 

Pretty well all of October and part of November we were dog sitting, our son and family went To Thailand for a four-week holiday so we had a Jack Russell and a large sheepdog to look after.

This meant that all the gates had to be kept shut and made it very difficult to do a lot of gardening.

Very little happened in October and Judy had to spend a lot of time getting plants ready for ‘The Tropical Foliage Festival’.

We were back to watering the garden by hand as there was quite a few very dry spells.

I did manage to top soil the back lawn with a sand dressing.

Well, did it ever rain in November in the space of a week we had over 350mm of soaking rain and everything like crazy, I can see so much pruning will have to be done in winter.

Our Mango showed so much promise with a magnificent flowering, but of course we had a shower of rain and will only have six Mangos to pick, that is if we can beat to Flying foxes.

They have already eaten most of the Longan and Lychee crop, they eat them when they are the size of your small fingernail.

We took a lot of plants to the ‘Tropical Foliage Festival’ it was hard work setting up and the Saturday was quite busy, nice to meet some old friends there.

We had a bus visit with 37 people from the ‘Cleveland Over 50s’ visit us again as they wanted to see the mass plantings of Caladiums, they enjoyed the garden.

I have had to say no to presentations to a couple of garden clubs as we do not want to travel through peak hour traffic, and believe me it’s bad here in Brisbane. We will still do reasonably local ones.

Well, that’s it from a very wet ‘Giving Garden’ for the rest of the year, lets see what 2025 brings.

I know one thing it will bring and that is my 80^th, apart from aches and pains I am going reasonably well.

Have a great Christmas and a happy new year, all the best.