Judy and I hope all our blog readers had a great Christmas and
we wish one and all the best for the coming year.
The year 2012 looks like it’s going to be another busy year
with garden presentations and bus trips already booked.
Since we opened we have bought two car loads of new plants
and I have refurbished two gardens, taking out some common plants and putting
in rare gingers ect.
Next year will be the last year we will open with ‘Australia’s
Open Gardens’ it will be our 11th consecutive year and it’s getting
very hard to find help as a lot of our friends are quite frankly getting old.
We still intend to open for bus tours and garden clubs; we do have to charge a small $2 dollar admission fee to pay for the public liability
insurance that we have to take out.
I am replacing the old retaining wall in the front driveway
at the moment; it’s over 20 years old and is looking its age. The hardest part
of the job is getting the old upright sleepers out of the ground, it’s a
crowbar job chipping away at the old cement, painful but it has to be done.
My new mower is brilliant, mows in half the time, well worth
while getting.
After exhausting virtually all our rainwater prior to the open
garden we have now had some good rain and the tanks are again filling.
The sweet smother turf I planted in all the shady spots has
took off and it’s great to finally see green lawn in areas that have been
barren for years.
Mr Possum is back for the mango crop.
All the best and happy gardening for 2012.
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