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Sunflowers starting to bud.
Now almost taller then bird house post.
Little friends enjoying our swan plant garden.
First potatoes from garden.
Purple beans and single pea.
Firewood shelter part way done.
The hype before the big bloom…..
Most of the garden from the backdoor.
Kids corner.
Looking into Kids side of garden (left of whole garden)
Pretty section..
From iris/flax section towards kids side of garden and pretty garden sections.
Flax and iris section.
Closeup of section.
Lemon tree and “Isabelle’s” section.
2/3 of lemon tree is growing back from its big hair cut.
Blue river section.
Vege and herb section.
Herbs have been cut back and carrots slowly growing.
Peas didn’t want to do much so far 
Looking towards rest of garden from Maple corner.
Maple corner.
Little pink to tease us about spring.
Ballernina poppy.
Peas are growing at last 
“coreopsis, fruit punch”
under the red maple tree.
Gold mould of tiny daisy like flowers.
“bidens ferrurifolia, goldmound”
Blue pansy river slowly growing around stones.
“nasturtium”
Shallow bulb pot.
Area along driveway.
Before photo of this Tree.
Before area near maple cut.
After we got most of the weedy trees removed.
The start of the spring box.
Stuff ready to fill box and first layer of compost.
The bulb layer.
2nd layer of compost stuff.
4 Thyme to be the between season ground cover.
Blue pots to protect Thyme while raking mulch over top of spring box.
Mulch layer.
Cut tops of blue pots and will stay inplace till Thyme gets bigger.
The after photo.
Going to look amazing in spring
Total bulb count for this box.
190 spring bulbs!!!
35 dutch iris (mixed),
20 daffodil (mixed),
20 earlycheer daffodil,
35 freesia single (mixed),
10 freesia double (mixed),
50 anemone (mixed),
20 tete-a-tete daffodil.
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Maple tree corner and wild flowers.
Also slowly turning into wild strawberry patch.
Vege/herb patch.
Peas are slowly trying to climb up the teapee..
Iris/flax section.
Kids corner planter looking great.
Starting to find which plants suit it better then others.
Looking from bird post towards rest of garden.
Kids part of the garden has some up’cycled fireplace tile bits for walking on.
Closeups of some fav blooms.
scabiosa ‘crimson clouds’
Black prince fuchsia.
gaillardia grandiflora ‘goblin’
First pot of spring bulbs growing so tall thought I’d better ad some “frames” to stop them falling over.
?? not sure the name.
“schizocentron, ‘spanish shawl’
mini crimson ‘mandevilla’
Kids daffy’s peeking out.
Guard dog of the garden.
warning all bees, birds and stupid cats off the garden.. the latter is great but others not so.
Birthday presents from far far away lands.
waterproof kneeing pillow.
Plant stake tags from same lovely person.
“Salvia Victoria Blue” (at night)
raspberry.
“Pratia Angulata”, Panakenake.
Flowering groundcover a NZ native.
White flowers and pink berry(fruit)s.
Closeup of the berries.
alyssum bargin 50cents for 6plants!
Rosemary, bonsai in training.
in its bonsai pot to grow.
Azalea indica hybrid, Dr. Glaser. (red double)
now in its bonsai pot.
“Alyssum” in the center to keep it pretty between seasons.
with these in layers.
Market art for kids corner.
Lots of healthy growth on lemon tree.
Even another 1/3 of tree is starting to shoot growth.
Hoping the front left of tree starts to show growth soon.
It was super unhealthy so it got a big haircut.
Left side after rain.
Pretty section.
Iris/flax section.
Isabelle’s memory section.
River section.
Herbs and vege.
Maple and tall flower jungle corner.
New growth on lemon tree.
Playhouse has a door!!
And one of the kids keys in the lock.
Some new flowers in kids raised wall garden.
Sweet peas to grow over fence near playhouse.
Bonsai in training.
New plant to train.
fuchsia “candy bells”
“oregano”
Mulch now under tires
Hopefully next summer it’ll be ready to use.
“Bellis”
Now on facebook fan group search —> ” Owl’s Backyard Garden “.
Finally got enough “daphne’s” for Isabelle’s garden section.
New iris I picked up from the bargin corner,
“Higo iris, “komenuryenden” (Japanese iris)
Not sure where to put it yet…
Random hedging plant from bargin section.
Has a nice root so thought could be my first miniture bonsai….
Some photos from 1st quarter 2013.
Maple tree corner.
Butter coloured flower.
Kids loving their fake water fountains in fake river
Touch of red peeping out.
??
White flat headed flower.
Iris/flax section.
Dutch iris purple added.
Little fairy popped into the garden.
shrub saved from old house.
Pieris japonica.
Kids playing around with pots and rocks.
First raspberry.
1 multi layered spring bulb pot ready.
Might turn into a bonsai later…
garden at nighttime.
Daphne saved from old garden.
Hoping this cool weather and lots of love it’ll enjoy its new home.
