We went to Roger's Garden Centre yesterday and got the 30 bay trees; 3 hydrangeas to complete the low hedge that we are putting at the side of the house. Thanks Mum and Dad - your $150 Christmas money has been put to good use! :) They only had little wee ones in stock yesterday (you will need to zoom in to see them on the photo!) but they grow reasonably fast and I can prune them to make them bushier. The nice sales lady said as we dig the holes for the plants to drop in a teaspoon of fertiliser and some water then plant the plant to hurry things along a bit....
We will grow the hedge as high as the verandah or 3 weather boards up - around 3 foot high - and it will hide the pipes and under house area. It will also be a barrier for the weed eater man that the owner of the driveway gets in - he sprays lawn clippings up the side of our house every time. We have planted all but two or three of them as we need to get Les in to fix the side of the house and the under-verandah-door before doing so. It will mirror/match the neighbour's bay tree hedge eventually - 3rd photo shows the trees when they get older - we would keep them about the height of theirs at the moment.
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| You need to zoom in to see the tiny bay trees!! The larger ones at the garden shop were too tall and spindly and we want to promote good bushy trees to make a hedge - so have to wait!! :) |
The hydrangeas at the brown end of the house were transported from the front garden where they didn't do very well at all. They mostly all 'took' to their new home - so we just had to replace three of them that didn't survive the transplant! So the back of the side of the house will have a hydrangea hedge and the front is bay tree hedge!
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| You need to zoom in to see the tiny bay trees!! The larger ones at the garden shhop were too tall and spindly and we want to promote good bushy trees to make a hedge - so have to wait!! :) |
We also got 4 star jasmine to fill in the gaps in the front garden as we didn't get enough. Glen had run out of puff by the time he got to this area of planting - there are a lot of roots that need to be dug out before the star jasmin can be planted! So they will be put in today! I will grow this as a hedge too and have it the height of the verandah. it will hide the ugly wall on the right hand side too.
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| Next door neighbour's that we are mirroring for consistency |
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