jacqueline's Tiny Orchard garden

Garden Type: Frontyard | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Sand

This is the top bed of the front garden. It contains six citrus trees; lime, lemon, orange, mandarin, and two cumquat (one variegated).

Previously, the trees were in pots around the back of the house until I got fed up of nursing the trees during the hot Western Australia summer.

Having the trees in the ground is much easier. The lime tree is doing well, but the other trees have yet to prove that they can produce. Although, given that most people I know have a lemon tree, perhaps I can get a different tree to the lemon if it does not work out.

The citrus trees are underplanted with self-sown Tansy and Garlic Chives.

I have also planted Marjoram along the front path, and Mullein has self sown near the grapefruit tree.

There is also an Australian native creeper that I purchased from the Friends of Kings Park that is growing on the wall shared with our neighbour.

Plantings

Day 27

Sweet Potato

Transplanted on 25 Oct 09 I think it is Sweet Potato, but it could be som...
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Day 139

Valerian

Valeriana officinalis

Established on 05 Jul 09 Planted between the lime tree and the limestone...
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Day 139

Leeks

Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum

Transplanted on 05 Jul 09 36 leek seedlings in replace of a grapefruit tr...
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Borage

Borago officinalis

Planting Out on 27 May 08 I like the flowers. The pot contained two e...
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Lavender Bunny

Lavandula angustifolia

Transplanted on 30 Mar 08 These lavender plants just appeared on the fron...
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Rosemary Bear

Rosmarinus officinalis

Planting Out on 30 Mar 08 I need to propagate more rosemary, as we appear...
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Climber

Chorizema diversifolium

Sown on 23 May 07 The tag that came with the plant was Chorizema ...
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Marjoram

Origanum majorana

This one is very sweet, and grows very easily f...
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Lemon 'Meyer'

Citrus x meyeri

This was transplanted from a pot.
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Lime

Citrus latifolia

This was transplanted from a pot.
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Mandarin

Citrus reticulata

This was transplanted from a pot.
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Orange

Citrus sinensis

This was transplanted from a pot.
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Cumquat 'Varigated'

Citrus japonica

This was transplanted from a pot. Although it f...
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Cumquat

Citrus japonica

This was transplanted from a pot.
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Tansy

Tanacetum vulgare

This has self-sown, and if I let it would be a ...
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Ivy Geranium

Pelargonium peltatum

I was given 15 hanging baskets of ivy geraniums...
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Geranium

Geranium

This is the mother plant of many of the geraniu...
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Geranium

Geranium

Pink geranium that I am attempting to grow else...
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Trailing Succulent

Sedum

Flowers start as purple buds and turn into insi...
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Mullein

Verbascum thapsus

These seedlings have grown where they fell from...
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Comments

cricketk wrote:
This is a gorgeous garden – how much space do you have in total?

Posted on 11 Nov 07 (over 2 years ago)
jacqueline wrote:
I’ll have to measure it Cricketk. I’m not very good at estimating or quantity surveying. But I can tell you it is a very big area with only enough room to squeeze through the trees.

Posted on 03 Dec 07 (about 1 years ago)