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.
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| New seedlings in their bed | 
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| Reed avocado | 
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| Bacon avocado | 
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| Our little avo shelters | 
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| Titoki hiding behind the barrels in the chook run | 
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| Puriri, kanuka and friends, holding the bank together | 
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| Half of the greenhouse planting | 
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| The other half of the greenhouse | 
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| Seedling area | 
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| Vege seedlings | 
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| Herb seedlings | 
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| Swan plants and sweet peas | 
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| Garden outside my bedroom | 
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| The other end of the garden outside my room | 
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| Grapevine | 
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| The red, white, and green garden | 
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| Parsley and antirrhinums | 
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| Wisteria 'Snow Showers' | 
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| Some of Miss 4's flowers | 
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| Gladioli | 
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| Malus 'Jack Humm' crabapple and Miss 4's flowers | 
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| 3 sisters planting from October | 
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| Miss 4's garden | 
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| Wisteria 'Caroline' | 
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| Jasmine | 
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| Ballerina apple | 
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| The littlies' carrot, leek, and nasturtium seeds | 
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| Garden by the front door | 
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| Garden in front of the lounge | 
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| Garden along the drive - grevillea, phormium tenax and others | 
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| Purple flax and Granny Smith apple | 
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| Front fence and garden | 
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| Phormium tenax, carex and Rosa 'Carcassone', plus arthropodium | 
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| arthropodium, bougainvillea, and poppies | 
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| A self-seeded ornamental cherry | 
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| Manuka 'shelly', lomandra 'nyala' and alyssum | 
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| Camellia 'setsugekka' and Tetragonia expansa spinach | 
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| Oriental lillies and Camellia 'setsugekka' | 
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| Close up of lillies | 
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| Some of the growing canopy | 
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| View from deck across the back yard | 
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| View from the deck over the sleepout | 
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| Indoor plants growing in water - peace lillies and anthurium | 
Have a great 2021 and stay safe, folks.
Mama Fern