Spring seems to be the most colourful time in my garden. The camellia's and azalea's have nearly finished flowering but my many rhododendrons are just starting.
This old fashioned lilac bush has been in my garden for a few years struggling to survive until last year I moved it to a sunnier spot in the front garden. This is the first time it has produced flowers.
For the past few weekends I've been working on my veggie garden...weeding, digging in compost and re-arranging my herb garden from one end to the other and I'm now pretty pleased with how its looking. I have potatoes planted in the right-hand end one, and in the left-hand end one is now my herb garden along with a few strawberry plants. The middle three have tomatoes, spring onions, lettuces, basil, beetroot, red onions, rhubarb and self-seeded pumpkin plants. In each of the pots in between the containers are more strawberry plants. Some of my tomatoes have flowers forming already and we have been eating freshly picked lettuce and herbs. It's feels so satisfying to pick and eat our own vegetables and herbs plus of course they taste so much better than the store bought veggies.
5 comments:
Your flowers are beautiful. I love that lilac.
Those rhododendrons are just beautiful. A great view over your vege garden too. Is it a stone patch your vege boxes are sitting on?
Your rhodos are looking beautiful. Things in your garden are at about the same as mine. I wondered what your garden pad under the tubs was too?
I love your garden. Very cool!! I must get on and start planting mine now that the weather is warmer.
Pretty flowers are so soothing. Nature's way of making us stop and "smell the roses". Sounds like you are going to have a great range of fresh vegies for the summer. We have some lettuce and carrots (little lady finger ones?) planted in our courtyard. We always have parsley planted. Do you have much trouble with pests?
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