Garden News September 2021

 Another month without a drop of rain, the garden is really starting to dry out and very windy also.

No garden presentations this month, it's been quite barren this year of course due to Covid restrictions.

We did managed to fit one bus load of visitors in, 45 from a church group from Sunnybank. 

 We potted all our Caladium bulbs and should have a great show in November also lot's to sell.

We went back to Genny Catin's to help her repot and move her Caladiums.

My Amorphophallus were also potted, due to some rot last year I am trying a new mix with three buckets of potting mix, two of composted bark and one of perlite.

I lost my second Amorphophallus titanum through rot, almost cried when I removed the tuber from the pot.

Applied for a Covid app and will have that available for bus tours and Open Garden.

Open Garden, we are planning it and the only thing that will stop us is Covid, fingers crossed.

Some wildlife.

August Garden News 2021

A quiet month in the garden and very dry.

We had a little break and went up to Agnes Water to see our son and family, it was nice to relax and have time to read a book.

The Red Geranium is looking good.

Spring is about three weeks early this year as the Scadoxus are flowering mid August.

I bought a new 30 litre battery sprayer and am very happy with it.

A nice Cordyline 'Ruby'.

Sinningia we bought at the Nambour show. 

A trailer load of Platinum potting mix from Centenary Landscapes.

 

 

Best Potting Mix

 Trip to Centenary Landscapes at Darra today to collect one metre of potting mix and some composted bark.

This is for Judy to continue propagating and for me to start potting all my stored Amorphophallus tubers.

For the Amorphophallus the composted bark and perlite will be mixed in with the potting mix.

It's a fair trip one we only make of a Sunday to avoid the traffic but it is worth it as the potting mix is the best we have found so far.

Garden News July 2021

 

We had one garden presentation this month to Forest Lake Garden Group, a nice bunch of people who only recently visited our garden on a bus tour.

 Very little else in the way of presentations happening.

We went to the Nambour Garden Expo, it was a wet and miserable day and we did not buy much as the prices were through the roof.

 We took our two Grand-Daughters with us on the promise of food, they were great.

After the Expo we called in to see our friends at Natrakelp, always nice to see them.

In the garden I have been very busy laying more turf in the front garden and putting an extra layer of rocks in the garden at front of house on top of existing ones, ground was as hard as a rock so I had to put a few barrows loads of compost to break it up. Judy has replanted a selection of plants that will take full sun.

Judy requested more benches so she received them, I am getting really good and quick at making these now.

I have a new area to plant out after removing some rampant Justicica's.

Plants from July

 

June 2021 Garden News.

 

Plenty of tree and shrub trimming and cutting, this is always a big winter job with four Carambolas, one Mango, five Jaboticabas, five Grumichama’s, Custard Apples and various shrubs.

Plenty of loads to the dump as my Composting areas are quite full.

I am trying to lower the height of several of the fruit tree to make it easier to trim in the future as I am not getting any younger.

We went back to Genny Catlin’s and finished off putting up the shade cloth.

We had three garden presentations booked for June but I had to cancel one of them or rather it was cancelled for me as the club wanted me to reduce my presentation from 45 minutes to 25 minutes. I just cannot do that as it would destroy the whole idea of my talk.

Anyway, we went one evening to New Farm to give a Presentation to the ‘Brisbane Bromeliad Society’ then the following week to ‘The Gap Garden Club’, all really enjoyed my ‘Aroids and Colour’ presentation.

The only problem was driving through Brisbane’s traffic, don’t really care for that sort of driving anymore.

Judy has had a bumper crop of rare Anthurium seeds and these have done well in her hothouse.

Judy is at her happiest propagating.

There are going to be some fantastic plants available if we can open in November.

The last Sunday of the month was a Cordyline meeting at Rochedale, as usual a bunch of great people there and for the first time ever I won first prize in the raffle which was a large bag of fertilizer.