Driveway Garden

I'm in the process of creating a garden at the end of our driveway (the house end)... Obviously I'm starting from scratch so there is a lot of prep work to do.... So:

·         Remove half a dozen barrow loads of rocks from the garden bed, check.

·         Remove about the same number of logs and fallen branches, check.

·         Remove grass and weeds, check.

·         Carry over a dozen loads of rocks back to the garden edge for construction of border/retaining wall, check.

·         Neaten up existing grass trees by removing dead fronds and trimming, check.

·         Build up soil with newspaper, compost, horse manure and more soil (to be dug up from elsewhere around the block - a tricky exercise because of the absolute saturation of rocks!), check.

·         Add plants (transplant natives from surrounding scrub and add new shrubs, herbs, ground covers etc), pending.

 

Ps –

That’s Grammy in the hat, she can’t resist a bit of hard labour!  Thank you Grammy!!!!

Sebastian is also at hand to help with rock transportation with his toy trucks and miniature wheelbarrow.  He’s also on the lookout for tiny toads.  He’s collected four of them from this garden and keeps them as pets.  He has them housed in a plastic toad habitat with soil and plants and ponds.  Benji and I are having to catch moths to feed them!  He loves them and is constantly plucking them up to play with and carry around!

Also I just have to mention all the lovely rain we’ve been getting. – wonderful news for our tank, our garden (to be) and the whole Scenic Rim area.  It is just so lush and green at the moment... and it makes the spider webs (we have plenty!!!!) look like they’ve been strung with jewels.