Monday, 21 December 2020

Leading up to Christmas 2020

 Kia ora,

I'm not going to write a whole heap about the last 18 months, but I went around today, and took photos of the state of our garden at present.

Hopefully these pics bring some light into the end of a dark year.

New seedlings in their bed

Reed avocado

Bacon avocado

Our little avo shelters

Titoki hiding behind the barrels in the chook run

Puriri, kanuka and friends, holding the bank together

Half of the greenhouse planting

The other half of the greenhouse

Seedling area

Vege seedlings

Herb seedlings

Swan plants and sweet peas

Garden outside my bedroom

The other end of the garden outside my room

Grapevine

The red, white, and green garden

Parsley and antirrhinums

Wisteria 'Snow Showers'

Some of Miss 4's flowers

Gladioli

Malus 'Jack Humm' crabapple and Miss 4's flowers

3 sisters planting from October

Miss 4's garden

Wisteria 'Caroline'

Jasmine

Ballerina apple

The littlies' carrot, leek, and nasturtium seeds

Garden by the front door

Garden in front of the lounge

Garden along the drive - grevillea, phormium tenax and others

Purple flax and Granny Smith apple

Front fence and garden

Phormium tenax, carex and Rosa 'Carcassone', plus arthropodium

arthropodium, bougainvillea, and poppies

A self-seeded ornamental cherry

Manuka 'shelly', lomandra 'nyala' and alyssum

Camellia 'setsugekka' and Tetragonia expansa spinach

Oriental lillies and Camellia 'setsugekka'

Close up of lillies

Some of the growing canopy

View from deck across the back yard

View from the deck over the sleepout

Indoor plants growing in water - peace lillies and anthurium

Have a great 2021 and stay safe, folks.

Mama Fern