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.

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.