I finally have some plants in the front yard!!
Over the last few months I've spent about 3-4 hours digging through the old soil with the new soil and adding in extra goodies for the soil. I had to be careful while doing it to not hurt my back again so I restricted my self to mostly 30-45 minute sessions.
Yesterday I spent about 3 hours planting the plants and I reckon almost an hour of it was spent just looking at where I had placed the pots to work out if they were going to work where I had put them and then re-arranging them etc - I'm pretty happy with the results!
I haven't as yet planted the tree's I want to put but I am thinking I will wait until June when I can get bare rooted stock.
I'm also thinking about getting some banksia's to go around the letterbox.
Once in I gave them a good watering with some powerfeed and seasol and then mulched them, I've mulched with pea straw as I had an almost full bag of it and I am going to buy more to cover all the soil this weekend.
Here is a pictorial of the journey that my front yard has taken
When I moved in
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After the driveway had been done
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After I rotary hoe'ed the existing soil
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After bringing in more top soil
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Over a few weeks I dug through the new soil with the existing soil and added some goodies like Olsens Green Bio and Zeolite and powerfeed
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Blank canvas
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Rocks I acquired
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Ta da! I will mulch the rest of the soil this weekend but I ran out
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5 Gaura plants along the driveway, or as I call them springy butterfly plants
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5 Blue Fescue plants along the footpath
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5 Kangaroo Paws they are all bush gems and the back row has (L-R) Bush Spark, Bush Pizazz and Bush Sundown and the front are both Bush Pearl
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4 daphne plants - infront of these will go a Japanese Maple
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3 Purple Fountain Grass plants - in front of these will be some silver birch trees
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3 Grevillia's - 2 Australian Beauty's which are a nice yellow colour and in the middle is a Bonfire which is bright red
I will put in a gravel type path to the electricity and gas meter's to the left of these
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From the back corner
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Blue Fescue
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Purple Fountain Grass
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Blue Fescue, Kangaroo Paws, Gaura on the top left and Daphne on the top right of pic
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Daphne
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I planted sunflower seeds in my backyard over Christmas and this is the first sunflower flower
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