Self care by growing a garden

[Former-Member]

Pruned all the dead wood off a lemon tree (which I am so pleased to have 🍋). 

A neighbour has given me 4 x kangaroo paw plants.

[Smc]

Love Kangaroo Paws @Former-Member, have not yet succeeded in keeping one alive.

[Former-Member]

The plants are in need of potting up  @Smc thought if I did that with native mix I could sit them in an oblong planter rather than put them in ground (Don't really have a spot for them).

[Shaz51]

mine need repotting too @Former-Member , @Smc , @Adge , @Determined , @Appleblossom 

trying to decide to put them in the garden or in bigger pots

[Former-Member]

Kangaroo paws don't like wet feet @Shaz51 , you might find they do better in pots, particularly in the wet season.

[Former-Member]

Have done a bit of pruning over the last couple of days. 

[Smc]

Had a day out with Hubby yesterday. We spent most of it in and around a regional botanical garden. They had a nursery on site. A couple of plants followed me home, suprise suprise. 😄

The day before yesterday was a big "in the garden" day for me. I finished planting up a half finished garden bed. I don't think there's room for much more in there now. It's a mixed bed. There was already garlic planted at the back, I've added in a punnet of Chinese Cabbages, there's a few herbs and leafy greens scattered throught it, and the rest is annual and perennial flowering plants surrounding a young pomegranate tree.

I've put two peonies in that bed, another in a different bed (which is also now about "at capacity") and a fourth one will be going in the bed I weeded out a few days ago. Two are named varieties, the others are unnamed, but as they were the "leftover stock" of a very good nurseryman when he closed his business, I'm eagerly expecting them to be good ones.

[Former-Member]

Nice @Smc 😀

Gave away another succulent plant (large) today to friends who visited.

Think another of the bulbs might be a scilla peruviana hughii - certainly has the form of the regular scilla, but not the blue colour. 

[Adge]

Kangaroo Paws are mostly from areas with sandy soils - eg here, where most of them are native to.

Yep, as @Former-Member said, they don't like wet feet at all.

Potted K Paws is a good idea, they might be happier with that.

I don't have any at the moment.

Despite having pure sand for soil, I still managed to have them all die (years ago).

I am very happy with my Bull Banksia though, they can be hard to grow. It's now about 4m high.

My Nasturtiums got cut back, on Tuesday. I love them, with their different flower colours.

Yet they have covered the entire back yard, in recent years - they climbed the trees & bushes (& almost smothered some of them).

The Nasturiums came from just one packet of seeds (about 20 years ago). They self-seeded themselves out of the original pots, then around the entire back yard.

Adge

[Former-Member]

@Adge 

Successfully growing a bull banksia =  🙌 (a horticultural triumph)

Nasturtiums smothering other plants = 😵

Getting the nasturtiums cut back = 😀