looking good

The garden bench was cemented to some hardcore and was too much trouble to be brought down to new ground level and so the floral bed had to incorporate it as is.

Gave rise to the need for some 'stepping up' from pea gravel path implemented with discarded remnant narrow long bricks from a new house being constructed nearby.

That's a letterbox, not a birdhouse.






Those three grasstrees were salvaged from a lot where a new house was being built. Sadly they didn't make it.

That framework guard was another something we picked up.

See that Frangipani cutting from Vincent's house two streets away in same estate? Actually, it was an overhanging branch from his neighbour's tree.



All in, we derived three nice cuttings from the pruning of those overhanging branches.

All three established successfully in a few weeks.

That long bendy stalk-like skinny thing just behind the tin watering can is an inflorescence of one of the succulents in the groundbed.










That circular cobblestone feature cost $110. Consisted of quadrants of cobblestones on string mat to facilitate laying out. Needed minor adjustments to get the size to suit site, leaving some spares. We planted multicoloured Portulaca in the central space. And filled gaps with very small sized (really 'pea-sized') pea gravel.

Notice those two pot surrounds in the bed behind? We planted two Woolly Bushes in that bed.



The freshly laid paved area in the backyard with spaces filled with gravel. Weeds came up out of those gaps but were easily plucked out or sprayed with Zero weedkiller. Not a problem.


The boardwalk material was treated and varnished hardwood remnants from construction of a staircase in a neighbouring lot. Real heavy stuff, almost broke my back lugging them. This boaedwalk is at the rear of the house. Those lallang-like leaves are from one of the few varieties of Kangaroo's Paws. This one had yellow flowers. Nearside bed was Penny's herb plot.





See the new anaks growing from the succulent 'leaflets' ?