Garden News May 2021

 

This month we had our first bus visit for quite some time as of course Covid was to blame.

People were very pleased to be able to get out and enjoy a nice garden.

We hosted 49 visitors from Forest Lake Garden Club, all who have a great morning walking around the garden.

Everyone said how much they enjoyed the garden even though the Caladiums and Amorphophallus are in their dormant phase.

All the Caladiums have been dug out of ground and as the Amorphophallus die back I am storing those in containers, both with vermiculite to keep the tubers and bulbs dry.

I sent some Amorphophallus tubers to a friend in South Australia who did me a big favour.

There was a Cordyline meeting at Buderim but unfortunately Judy had a fall and fractured a rib and did not want to sit in the car driving to the Sunshine Coast.

There was an Aroid Society meeting which we went to at Sunnybank as usual all the plants were quite expensive and we were pleased with the price we received for two plants that went for auction.

Lots of work done in the garden as usual and my main job was to improve the front lawn as this area had no grass left.

Genny Catlin rang asking if we knew anyone who could replace her shade cloth, not knowing anyone I was silly enough to say I would do it so, I ordered three x 50 metre rolls and Judy and I stitched two four-metre-wide rolls together, over 20 metres each length.

I then enlisted the help of a fellow Aroid member to help put he shade cloth up, he was 28 and I am 76, I well and truly kept up with him.

We managed to do almost all that Genny wanted with a still one 23 metre long bit to go, which I will do next month.

The main thing is that Genny was happy and I was help her out.

I have had my first Astra Zenica Covid jab with no side effects.

Some nice visitors.

 Some of May's plants.

 

April 2021 Garden News

 The start of April; was very busy with finishing the pool deck.

I started to screw the Merbau timber to the joists, as the pool surround is not straight every bit of timber had to be cut to fit the curve of the pool.

After 925 stainless decking screws the job was almost finished all that remained to do was to pebble the area behind the deck and then clean and prepare the deck for oiling.

I then gave the deck three coats of water based oil.

The finished product was quite pleasing.

We had a short break for ANZAC day at Agnes Water where my Grand daughters marched with me.

I did not do much else that month as my arm and shoulder were giving me a lot of pain from building the deck.

Garden News March 2021

 

Sorry I am so late in posting this blog but I have been very building a new pool deck.

At last, a Garden Club presentation. On the 16^th we visited Oxley and District Garden Club where I gave my latest presentation on ‘Aroids and Colour’.

They really liked it and it was nice to receive a nice thank you letter.

We had a bus trip booked to our garden but due to the heavy rain we had to cancel, just too wet and soggy.

The other cancellation was a visit to Steve Flood’s Nursery with the Cordyline Society as we had Grandchildren duties that day.

March was a great month for rain, in all we had over 500 mills, that filled up all our tanks and gave the garden a deep watering.

The existing pool deck was getting old and rotten so instead of waiting for winter when the weather is cooler, I made a start, and what a big job it has turned out to be.

I did not finish it until mid-April so you will have to wait until next months Blog entry to see the finished work.

I have also made benches for Judy's Bromeliads.

There were two parts of the garden that I was not happy with, so out came the existing plants, timber edges in then build up with soil and compost and finally fill with new plants.

Some garden photos I took over the month.