Six on Saturday – Following The Garden Path of Least Resistance
This past month I have been busily planting and consolidating new and old plant areas in my garden. My front garden I have been adding to over the last three years. Replacing old euryops daisies and roses that died in the drought years a few years ago. I have been filling up these garden beds with hardy Mediterranean garden plants that can withstand long months of heat and dry, but also look really pretty for months in spring. I am filling bed in these ares with only the toughest customers. In a wet year I can grow everything, but in dry years or a few dry years only the toughest survive. This is garden that I don’t use as much but it is important because it can be viewed from our house, from the side.
I had two successive lawns here that gradually died, over a period of years. It has a lot of foot traffic and children’s bikes riding over here. So gets a fair bit of punishment. I am currently experimenting with planting a pink groundcover thyme lawn here, that does not need much watering or any mowing. I will let you know how it goes.
So in go ostespermun daises, hardy centaurea plants, daises, lavenders, and at the back I am planting a row of tree lucernes for their spring blossom and luxuriant growth. At the very back in the dry shade of gum trees I am planting a series of hardy but pretty Australian native flowering shrubs such as native hibiscus. So this do-what-works-and-multiply-it applies to my garden these days. Interestingly each garden area has its own slight different micro climate and balance of light and shade, so different plants grow well in different areas. Some areas are dry shade, dry full sun, moist full sun, moist shade etc. Plus access to my hose and sprinkler routine is key too.
In my new rose garden, I am planting hardy annuals , perennials, bearded irises and lots of my favourite roses. Moist full sun in winter, spring. So I can play with my roses and perennials there. It is filled at the moment with roses, sweets peas, iris, carnation, dianthus, lavender, calendulas, salvias, and cornflowers.
Our back garden, is really our front garden. In the country everyone approaches a house form the back. So it is the most on show to the house guests. I have planted roses at the front of the bed and daisies and Italian stoechas lavender in the backs with purple Alyogyne hibiscus at the back.
A cat enjoying the afternoon sun! I like to sit here so I have a few garden seats. I also give many of my spiritual and fairy classes outside. I am encouraging the calendulas to edge all the beds in this garden as they are so bright and happy! I have a lot of parsley planted here and a few peach nectarine trees for fruit and a few lettuce/strawberry garden beds here too.
The marguerite daises at the front of the house, along with pelargoniums are holding in a bank of soil. The garden fairies kindly planted a row of new daises at the front of the bed, which covers out all the weeds. Plus they are all interesting new garden varieties.
I grow spring bulbs in pots so that they do not get crowded out by the tall grass weeds in spring. The freesias is particularly nice shade of reddy pink. Other freesias I naturalize in the garden with daffodils and jonquils.
These dutch irises have just started and do particularly well in pots multiplying each spring.
And finally if I may add an extra photo, of a brown boronia. This is an Australian native and has very fragrant flowers. A particular favourite of my husbands. So I will have to find a home in the garden for this beauty, but it will have to be in a pot as it only likes acid soil and we have alkaline.I hope you enjoyed the tour around my garden this Saturday. Follow this tag to see looks of beautiful gardens from around the world every Saturday.
Happy gardening. 
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