2021 Open Garden

 

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