The girls decided not to go to the "Carnival of Flowers" as they were both exhausted from there week. Cassie has not stopped talking about her trip to Canberra and the snow, mind you being a 12 yr old girl she never stops talking any way........My mulch arrived on Saturday, 10 round bales. Lots of work ahead. Our summers get very hot here and we need lots of mulch. At $25 a bale I think that this is good value. It goes on nice and thick to keep the moisture in and the weeds can't grow through it. Wonderful stuff mulch I love it......
These 4 bales are to go up near the dairy. You can see by the photo how dry it is up here in this part. We had stinging nettles by the 100s in here so we got the tractor in and dug them out. I am going to turn all this area into a garden as I don't want grass, as it will only die. Not sure what I'll plant here yet probably more veges as the others are just beside here.
When we cleaned the old yards up around the Dairy we found this old claw foot bath tub. We hummed and arrrrred about getting it fixed up but at $1000 I just couldn't justify it. Also our shower is over the bath and my Mother in law wouldn't be able to get over the deep sides into the bath. So then I didn't know if I wanted to fill it with flowers or turn it into a water feature, the water feature won. $20 for a pump a pot of plants and bingo.........Looks a bit bare but as the hydrangeas grow it will look better.......
Sunday after church I went up and looked at the geranium show. There were some stunning plants there, I did buy these two. The red flowered one is called "Scarlet Pet' and has the most delicate flower on it. The other is a new one that was only released yesterday called "T.C. Jestaroo" it is a climber and I have planted it on the front fence to climb up it.
I then went and had a look at all the open gardens....all by my self a nice peace full time just me and 100's of other people........Wasn't that bad really. I got some good ideas but mostly they were just townie gardens and didn't do alot for me. Very pretty but I only saw 2 with vege patches and I looked at 6 gardens so not very practical.
Well it is the first day of the school holidays today so I,m going to crack the whip and get children cleaning there b/rooms.
MANDY
Well done with the mulch. We have been thinking about it, but haven't done it yet.
ReplyDeleteI wish you lived closer, have been wanting to take some stinging nettles, though not sure how, and cook some like on River Cottage. I have silly ideas sometimes.
I wasn't so rapt with them when I was a kid and lived on the farm.