Plantings (28)
Progress Journal (58)
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This is a huge, mostly-shaded backyard at a house that I share with six other women and a number of very active community groups. It hasn’t been gardened at all in at least a year, but there are outlines of garden beds here and there that I intend to try to reclaim.
It’s going to be an interesting exercise, growing food for a household of seven in a space that is used for lots of other activities- I’m only half-joking when I consider the use of barbed wire (electrified!) to keep enthusiastic but garden-blind people out of my beds and off my seedlings.
Moving to this garden has also necessitated a pretty hard-core education campaign on how to harvest herbs without killing the plants. So far it seems to have been successful and I’m greatly enjoying the satisfaction of seeing my food-plants enjoyed by other people.
Other challenges of this space: a hefty population of possums & fruit-bats, a resident dog and two cats, and a sense of it being a bit of a communal dumping-ground (“No you CAN’T leave your rusting bike carcass in my veggie patch!”). Benefits of the space: a steady supply of willing hands to help me out, lots of mouths happy to eat the food I grow, and an appreciation of the wacky & creative side of gardening. Also LOTS more space to garden, and a whole lotta scope for improvement.
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Plantings
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Blackberry
Rubus fruticosus
Transplanted on 30 Oct 08 Received as part of a plant swap. I hadn't thou...
- 2 journals
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Kaffir Lime Tree
Citrus x hystrix
Planting Out on 15 Sep 08 I spent way too much money on this plant, but I...
- 2 journals
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Baby Echeveria
Echeveria
Transplanted on 24 Aug 08 My tea-pot echeveria has been exploding violent...
- 1 journals
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Little Tahitian Lime Tree
Citrus latifolia
Purchased on 20 May 08 Purchased from a plant fair in the lower Blue M...
- 2 journals
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Little Lisbon Lemon Tree
Citrus x limon
Purchased on 20 May 08 Purchased because I love the idea of having a l...
- 4 journals
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Succulent 'String Of Pearls'
Senecio rowleyanus
Sown on 16 May 08 This is a pot of 'string of pearls' growing fro...
- 1 journals
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Daisy cuttings for new garden
Bellis perennis
Sown on 19 Mar 08 These daisies come from cuttings of my mum's pl...
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Violets from mum
Viola alba
Sown on 18 Mar 08 Pulled out of my mum's garden and delivered loo...
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Petunia
Petunia
Sown on 02 Mar 08 I was so sad about losing my last petunias whil...
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Pink-flowering frangipani
Plumeria rubra
Sown on 20 Feb 08 After my heartbreak at having to leave the enor...
- 1 journals
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Geranium
Geranium
Sown on 15 Nov 07 Are these geraniums or pelargoniums? I'm entire...
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Violet 'Australian native'
Viola hederacea
Sown on 01 Nov 07 I've wanted this for a while and finally picked...
- 3 journals
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Colander Kalanchoe
Kalanchoe
Sown on 01 Nov 07 Grown from a cutting of my mum's red-flowering ...
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Pink-flowering rosemary
Rosmarinus officinalis
Sown on 01 Nov 07 Another cutting from mum, much smaller than the...
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Rosemary
Rosmarinus officinalis
Sown on 01 Nov 07 My mum grows big rosemary hedges in her backyar...
- 2 journals
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Lettuce 'Gwenda White'
Lactuca sativa
Sown on 25 Oct 07 Seed sown into small punnets- waiting for 'true...
- 3 journals
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Lettuce 'Lolla Rosa'
Lactuca sativa
Sown on 25 Oct 07 Seed sown into small punnets- waiting on true l...
- 3 journals
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Hydrangea
Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris
Sown on 20 Oct 07 This is Dot. She's a rescue plant, a sad & sorr...
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Succulent 'String Of Pearls' AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Senecio rowleyanus
Sown on 01 Oct 07 Updated description 27/08/08: I love this plan...
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Baby Sun Rose
Aloe
Sown on 01 Oct 07 One of my many unidentified succulents until it...
- 1 journals
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Pandorea Jasminoides
Pandorea jasminoides
Sown on 10 Aug 07 Another of my mum's amazing bargain finds- FOUR...
- 1 journals
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Nasturtium
Tropaeolum majus
Sown on 01 Jun 07 These were transplanted when I moved here from ...
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Zebra plant AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Haworthia fasciata
I have a bunch of these little plants in variou...
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- 2 comments
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Lemon tree
Citrus x limon
This gloomy-looking lemon tree has been botheri...
- 5 journals
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Mandarin tree
Citrus reticulata
Next to the sad lemon tree is this mandarin tre...
- 1 journals
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Aloe
Aloe
Just one of many succulents I've bought with no...
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Echeveria
Echeveria
Unknown rosette-forming succulent in a teapot. ...
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Hen and chicks
Sempervivum
I thought this was an Echeveria Glauca but it d...
- 0 journals
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Comments
Judith505 wrote:
Good luck with your big new space – it’s a lot of work trying to tame what’s been overgrown for a long period (I’m doing the same thing so I know). Very rewarding though to see it come together at last.
Posted on 30 Jun 08 (about 1 years ago)
tanya_shar wrote:
sounds like a really awesome garden and a great atmosphere. poor homeless bike carcass ;)
Posted on 19 Aug 08 (about 1 years ago)
gardengrrrl wrote:
LOL! You have fruit bats as garden pests. How funny!
Posted on 21 Sep 08 (about 1 years ago)