Owl's Garden

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.

My Lantern’s new pot.

Baby Daphne’s new pot.

Took a long long walk to a fav garden shop and found myself a “new” Daphne.

Its a cute baby version.

Azalea indica hybrid, Elsa Karga. (red double)

Not sure where it’ll go yet.

Azalea indica hybrid, Dr. Glaser. (red double)

Going to grow/train this in broom bonsai style.

Got my last chance bulbs for my last big spring bulb pot.

“Matai” NZ native tree I pickedup at a local market for $2! bargin.

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.

The before bonsai photo.
Left: Grewia mauve star, Right: Picea glauca albertiana conica.

Rough drawing of how I’m thinking of styling these to tree’s.

“main section”

Under the lemon tree is now a purple pansy section.

“ultima purple lace” pansy

“frizzle sizzle raspberry” Pansy

“delta violet” pansy

orange and purple pansy.

“Hot shot true Blue” pansy tray for around the stepping stones.

“the river”

“cuphea lanceolata”
pink matchsticks.

Saved from the clearance shelf,rather tatty but should enjoy been in the garden once planted.
fuchsia “firecracker”

Matching “chinese lanterns”

Abutilon “Red”

Abutilon “yellow”

Seeds popping up.

Scleranthus “uniflorus”
Pot recycled from local 2nd hand store.

New iris miniatures to be but into pots later.