What's a garden blog with out plants?




Back door garden

  Well not much.... and not much is happening in the garden just yet. We are into our fourth week of no rain. This is the one bed that I had time to give a good going over with some new home made compost, some liquid seaweed and a biostarter to get all that life going in the soil. This bed had store bought compost added to it every few years or so. One of these batches of compost seemed to have locked up the nitrogen and or potassium - basically everything went yellow, limp and died off early. I am so pleased with the results giving me healthy happy plants again. What pleases me most is I have not watered this bed once while the lawn is dying off. Stoked!

 At the moment the Billardiera Longiflora has its berries on display. Its growing well in the semi-shade under a house eve, during pruning time I would say a little too well. This is the least tasty of the Australian bush tucker vines. As you can see from the top photo its a climber that has been given no support as it weaves up into itself and clings to gaps in the logs. It gets a good hair cut each year. I'm thinking of putting up a semi arch to grow it away from the house. The main reason I have this plant is that in mid-spring it is covered in lime tubular flowers that stand out so well against the dark green leaves. When in flower next year expect to see a photo or two.