PrincessInOz
Thanks for my avatar, Mary Jo!
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2010
As previously threatened...er......promised. Pictures of my fruit and vegie gardening.
When I open my front door, this is the view I normally see. This summer, all we've had is rain, rain and more rain...so this rain is pretty normal too.
That area around the Japanese maple looks sad at the moment, but in spring, the Echium is in bloom.
To the left of that area, I have a weeping mulberry and a grapefruit. I have Salvia as an underplant, Snow in Summer, oregano and thyme as groundcover and border edging there.
I have hibiscus and buddleja bushes growing around the corner for flower power.
The grapefruit is doing well.
Here's that wild pumpkin, with my 1600L water tank kinda in the back ground.
Beneath my bedroom window, I have 3 lavender bushes that are in serious need of a cutback. The rains have been kind to them this year.
Looking to the right of my front porch is the duo apple 'tree'. It has granny smith on it in the picture. The golden delicious side of the duo didn't do so well this year. There is a lemon verbena on this side of the house as well. I love the smell and on a balmy night, I sometimes go out and crush the leaves for the smell.
My house and my son's 'house'. No prizes for guessing which is which. The cherry tree sits on this side as well...I think I seriously placed it in the wrong spot (the tree, not the cubby). This bed also has a chinese money tree that is incredibly prolific no matter how hard I cut it back. I also have a delightful yellow daisy bush in this bed. The border consists of seaside daisies. This is one of the beds that lettuce grows really well in.
(Yes, I have 2kW of solar panels on my roof)
On the right side of the Japenese maple, I have a very sad camellia (not in shot), a cumquat and the lime.
My limes get stolen a lot, but there is more than enough to keep me happy.
The lemon sits on the other side of the front gate (the lime on the other).
We don't suffer from scurvy in my household!
The garden bed on that side of the house looks like this. I tend to grow cukes and zucchini in this bed; and use lettuce as an edging plant. It usually works well.
Potato plants grow wild and mix about with the rose geranium under the lemon.
The orange is reasonable this year; but the poor gardenia is not coping well. Come to think of it, gardenia does not do well at all in my garden.
This is the Asian side of the house, down the side behind the cubby. The banana actually has fruit this year, the kaffir lime has heaps of gall wasp, you can see the galangal growing out and the taller bush at the back is the curry leaf plant. I use strawberry for the edge here. There is a taller tree right at the very back. It is a jacaranda and I love the purple hues in Spring.
The fence side is all English plants - azeleas and camellias. The interesting plant here is a soap plant groundcover (the green leaves) that you soak the flowers in water overnight for a soapy liquid that you can use.
On the other side of the gate is an area just wide enough for a small table and a very basic fish bath. That bath was in the house when we bought it. It is exceedingly small; but the goldfish are happy there!
This is the back of the house. I have a little fernery area and am constantly amazed that the ferns are alive!
The cherry tomato self seeded in the recycling bin that I've used as a vegetable potting container this year.
They were delicious!
My backyard is very small; and dominated by the apricot tree. Apricots were good last year; but way too much rain this year.
This back bed is a mess. DH started putting roses in there...everyone of them has died, except for the Lincoln rose. It has a lovely scent and I'm waiting for it to fall over. I have a couple of asparagus crowns, a grapevine and a couple of chilean guava shrubs that live in this mess. None of them very productive.
I have an olive tree on the other side of that bed. Olives are looking halfway decent this year. The jacaranda sits on the other side of the olive.
I have an Italian lavender bush and a rosemary; both about 0.5 meters high and they grow under the jacaranda.
That's the extent of my garden. Hope you enjoyed the pictures.
ps. Deb MickeyEars....Not sure if you remember but we met last year at the DisMeet organised by TinkinLouisian at SAB. Nice to cross paths again.
When I open my front door, this is the view I normally see. This summer, all we've had is rain, rain and more rain...so this rain is pretty normal too.
That area around the Japanese maple looks sad at the moment, but in spring, the Echium is in bloom.
To the left of that area, I have a weeping mulberry and a grapefruit. I have Salvia as an underplant, Snow in Summer, oregano and thyme as groundcover and border edging there.
I have hibiscus and buddleja bushes growing around the corner for flower power.
The grapefruit is doing well.
Here's that wild pumpkin, with my 1600L water tank kinda in the back ground.
Beneath my bedroom window, I have 3 lavender bushes that are in serious need of a cutback. The rains have been kind to them this year.
Looking to the right of my front porch is the duo apple 'tree'. It has granny smith on it in the picture. The golden delicious side of the duo didn't do so well this year. There is a lemon verbena on this side of the house as well. I love the smell and on a balmy night, I sometimes go out and crush the leaves for the smell.
My house and my son's 'house'. No prizes for guessing which is which. The cherry tree sits on this side as well...I think I seriously placed it in the wrong spot (the tree, not the cubby). This bed also has a chinese money tree that is incredibly prolific no matter how hard I cut it back. I also have a delightful yellow daisy bush in this bed. The border consists of seaside daisies. This is one of the beds that lettuce grows really well in.
(Yes, I have 2kW of solar panels on my roof)
On the right side of the Japenese maple, I have a very sad camellia (not in shot), a cumquat and the lime.
My limes get stolen a lot, but there is more than enough to keep me happy.
The lemon sits on the other side of the front gate (the lime on the other).
We don't suffer from scurvy in my household!
The garden bed on that side of the house looks like this. I tend to grow cukes and zucchini in this bed; and use lettuce as an edging plant. It usually works well.
Potato plants grow wild and mix about with the rose geranium under the lemon.
The orange is reasonable this year; but the poor gardenia is not coping well. Come to think of it, gardenia does not do well at all in my garden.
This is the Asian side of the house, down the side behind the cubby. The banana actually has fruit this year, the kaffir lime has heaps of gall wasp, you can see the galangal growing out and the taller bush at the back is the curry leaf plant. I use strawberry for the edge here. There is a taller tree right at the very back. It is a jacaranda and I love the purple hues in Spring.
The fence side is all English plants - azeleas and camellias. The interesting plant here is a soap plant groundcover (the green leaves) that you soak the flowers in water overnight for a soapy liquid that you can use.
On the other side of the gate is an area just wide enough for a small table and a very basic fish bath. That bath was in the house when we bought it. It is exceedingly small; but the goldfish are happy there!
This is the back of the house. I have a little fernery area and am constantly amazed that the ferns are alive!
The cherry tomato self seeded in the recycling bin that I've used as a vegetable potting container this year.
They were delicious!
My backyard is very small; and dominated by the apricot tree. Apricots were good last year; but way too much rain this year.
This back bed is a mess. DH started putting roses in there...everyone of them has died, except for the Lincoln rose. It has a lovely scent and I'm waiting for it to fall over. I have a couple of asparagus crowns, a grapevine and a couple of chilean guava shrubs that live in this mess. None of them very productive.
I have an olive tree on the other side of that bed. Olives are looking halfway decent this year. The jacaranda sits on the other side of the olive.
I have an Italian lavender bush and a rosemary; both about 0.5 meters high and they grow under the jacaranda.
That's the extent of my garden. Hope you enjoyed the pictures.
ps. Deb MickeyEars....Not sure if you remember but we met last year at the DisMeet organised by TinkinLouisian at SAB. Nice to cross paths again.
. Does anyone know of any homemade bug spray I could make to keep the bugs away from eatting the leaves? Not sure what type they are. Could be bettles.
for onions and herbs! How are they going?
