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Gardening - Stage Two

January 3rd, 2007 at 10:09 am

Well have I finished stage two of my gardening project, that is put all the cane mulch, along with digging and fertilizer the soil beforehand. This did take a few hours so it was done in two 2 hours lots over the course of the day. Then clean up the area and put away all the tools.

I have a strip bed garden that was laid out by my father over 35 years ago. Some of the plants were in the garden when we came here then or in neighbor’s gardens at the time. Seven large Crotons which take up most of front strip beds and is only 24inch wide,(these shrub should not grow there but they do) you only have a few feet between each for any others plants as my father had planned was to make a hedge of them. I have a liking for Geraniums and have five different dark reds & pinks colors and ivy geraniums two different colors in pots. These grow between the Crotons and in colors that blend with them. Also there are two Azalea, one is Red Wings. In one part of the front garden the crotons are have meet so I have bearded iris growing under them. I have a few gladiolus growing, I just leave them in the ground as we do have a warm climate here.

There are other bulbs in there too, Yellow Callas, Hippeastrum and Snowflake. I do let Italian Parsley grow wild if it take hold between weeding’s. In this area I have four small beds with one very old Gardenia that came from a neighbor’s yard when they going to make a office carpark of the backyard it was very sick at the time, now I have the best one in the neighborhood and ixora chinensis ‘Prince of Orange’ which came from this garden also. There are other plants in pots on the front porch including orchids and my herb garden.

As I don’t water the garden very much at time, just a light water once a week if it doesn’t rain and mainly its recycle shower water. These plants are the one that seem to grow well in this area without too much trouble as we will be going into level five water restrictions soon! I would like my water tank in before then as this the garden that I will keep going as it will be NO Watering with town supply. I hope you can still use rainwater Tank water & recycle water only. If it gets too bad than I will have to see what will be left in the end. The crotons have keep growing even when they were never watered. I like my Crotons as they do make a beautiful color show with all those red & yellow leaves and they are over six feet tall.

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