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.

These are going in a soon to be built box around the maple tree along the driveway.
I was going to buy some cheap plastic pots but thought i’ve got enough wood lying round from backyard to turn into a box for them instead.

Kids corner.

Planted some white “Alyssum” around “dr. Glaser, azalea indica”.
Only cost me 50c for 6 small plants.

Planted some “english daisy, pompanette mixed colours” in this gap.

Rest of the garden.

Recycling old fireplace tile floor frames.

“Black adder, flax” is looking quite at home with some “iris” around it.

Fuchsia cutting from old house is growing new leaves.
Hoping it does keep growing cause I loved the flowers.
Not sure which one it is yet till it blooms.

Something to warm you all up this cold weather.

Our new fire.
Much better heat and uses less wood then old built-in Kent.

“Black prince, fuchsia” makes good floating flowers.

View from Maple corner to other end of garden.

Kids corner.

Middle section.

Right section.

Most of garden.

Rosemary carpet growing under the teepee.

“Tibouchina, blue moon”

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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.

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.

??
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.

Most of of these were in the bargin/clearance area so excuse the tattyness of them.

grevillea aussie crawl

Bog sage

coreopsis, mango punch

bidens ferrurifolia, goldmound

gaillardia grandiflora, goblin

my 2nd orangeberry (raspberry) plant.

daphne odora, var. leucantha

soleirolia soleirolii, baby’s tears

scleranthus ‘biflorus’

vinca minor ‘alba’ dwarf periwinkle

primrose, eugenie

primrose, marie crousse

heliotropium, cherry pie

Looking along garden.

Testing how the new river/fountain section will look.

Iris/flax section.

Not sure which one this is came with no label from bargin easter sale section.
Libertia Tricolor???? possibly…

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.

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.