This is a native orchid that has appeared for the first time in our garden. The orchid is called The spotted hyacinth orchid. How fortunate to have that just appear in our garden. It hasn’t just popped up, I wrote this in May and forgot to post it. The orchid is still there.
Tag: gardening
Our roses have produced beautifully since the bushfires.
We haven’t had good roses for the past couple of years but this year we have had beautiful blooms. I think that the advice I received from my sister-in-law has also helped. She advised me to use Black Marvel.
A new hedge was planted last year but the hot weather did its thing
At the very back of our property we decided to plant a lillipilli hedge as they are well known to be a fast growing hedging plant. The plants we bought were of a reasonable size and they were doing really well until last summer’s scorching hot days when the hedge was damaged by the sun…
What we have done to our hedge.
Our side hedge is quite a long hedge and over the years since we have lived here the height of it seems to get taller and taller. One year we did get someone in to lower the hedge but it obviously wasn’t low enough and it has grown back over the years again. You can…
New growth appearing
We were fortunate that the bushfires didn’t reach Metung but the hot weather did a bit of damage to our gardens here. Many plants suffered in the heat, even the Australian native plants and we lost a few of our less well established plants to the heat. One of the plants that we thought had…
Gippsland Granny 