Owl's Garden

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.

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.

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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.

left side of yard.

and after

right side of yard.

and after.

almost whole yard before.

and after.

Other side of play area/deck wall garden planter.

Cleared lawn.

feijoa tree gone.

Building work and hard labour has helped by Ben from “wonoopercent” facebook page —-> https://www.facebook.com/wonoopercent.contracting?fref=ts
Together we have done 2 skip bin loads 2 trailer loads of “waste”.
Plus we have unloaded 6 cube meters of top soil/compost and shifted 10 cube meters of pumice and Ben has mixed it all together so drainage is great in the new garden.

I am slowly filling garden with texture and height arranged plants.
Trying to avoid mass planting fo any plant apart from the vege section.

Left 1/3 is going to be mostly hidden by soon to be build playhouse on the new deck area. (build by Ben).
Middle left section is iris and other grass/flax type leaf plants on the left of lemon tree.
Middle right yet to be decided.
Right section is vege/herb’s, with beans and sweet pea flowers growing over teepee made from recycled branches from old garden.
Far right corner has new “red” maple (“acer palmatum “trompenburg” (Japneanese maple)) and current wild flower and sunflower patch. With few sorts of fushias. Undecided as yet to what else to put there yet.

Me and kids have scattered seeds left and right sections with wild flowers and butterfly friendly flowers.

Raised wall will get wooden “seat” capping added this month as well as playhouse will be started.

Section of “lawn” between garage and playhouse/deck area will be paved and clothes line added.
Half the lawn on left side will be paved at some point.

Aim is to make the whole yard a oversized hidden courtyard style garden.
With both outdoor eating/living area side and half lawn with “thuja occidentalis “smaragd” (emeral thuja, smaragd white ceder). or “” shortconifer”” growing into 1 wall of garden.

Back of house

Plan is to extend the whole back part of house with new 2 level covered deck along whole new back wall of house.