I give you pictures of our house, taken on Anzac Day (April 25) this year. Pics are warts and all.
The north face (ie the sunny side down under), facing the street. Lots of junk about, a partially constructed greenhouse, some seedling benches, a skyrocket whose days are numbered....
The west wall - faces the hottest sun and gets some of the worst winter winds. Complete with nifty pressure valve stuff and solenoids for the watering system and toot.
The south wall, with kitchen and bathroom windows, gets the worst winter weather (ie driving rain, hail, lashing winds). Complete with 1000L watertank, pump and various bits of junk. That canopy over the door is going to go - it makes the place look like a mobile home.
The garden by the front gate, complete with recently planted violas and pansies.
We have to do an update on the greenhouse in progress, though we might leave it until more is done so you can see obvious progress. We also got a new rain water tank on Monday, only to get it into place, we'll have to pull a bit of the garage roof off! Ooops!
Just to show you Lynne is not a complete slouch in the garden, here she is attacking an agapanthus with the mattock. Mattock 1, agapanthus nil. Lynne's back fine, but swinging a mattock is a surprisingly good way to develop lats (the muscles underneath the shoulders that help give a body builder wide shoulders).
Though the agapanthus is still there, as you can sorta see in this pic of Cheshire sniffing the grapevine that has snuck through the fence from next door.
Of course Cheshire has to sniff the vine - after all things all around it have moved! Must sniff things when they move even though they have been sniffed 10,000 times in their old spot!
OK, more pics anon!
2 comments:
Agree about the twee canopy over the back door, but, geez, mate, if you don't do something there, you'll get blown out the other side of the house and/or flooded if you open the door when we get a decent sou'westerly!!
Good luck with the aggies - I've been trying to kill mine for about 15 years! I succeeded with some, but a couple of others are made of sterner stuff. I suspect gallons of Roundup will be required, or a small bushfire!
Cats seem to be intrigued by gardening. Mine seem to think that I'm making it nicer for them to do their business!
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