First up was a trip to the Presbytery in Clunes, opened as part of the Open Gardens Scheme. It is always good to see a developing garden. New owners to the property and a desire to remodel and create a new garden. Clunes is very windy, hot and dry in Summer and cold in Winter. Planted up in a Mediterranean style with lots of hardy plants.
Making good use of established trees as a backdrop and creating stone walks and feature pots
A few quirky things, the rhubath, making good use of an old bath for the rhubarb
Arrangements of old things and lovely little places for morning tea.
The medicinal herb and veggie area
On the way home we had a visit to Lambleys, a well known garden and plant supplier. Such an impressive garden and on the grand scale.
Then a week later the fun of the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show. So much to see and buy. I couldn’t resist treating myself to some new loppers, some nerines and a few succulents that would be new to my collection.
Too big for my garden but such a fun sculpture as was this cat one.
Amazing garden rooms, set up for the show and then dismantled
I love my garden but have neglected it somewhat in the past year. The garden tours have given the impetus to come home and get stuck in. So for the past week there has been a lot of pruning and hard hedging. It is looking a little butchered but with some TLC, soil improvement, fertiliser, water and a bit of time it should recover.
There is still plenty of colour behind the hedges
And a novel solution to provide shade for the newly planted wall of hydrangeas, luckily I have lots of these folding chairs.
and lots of potted plants, mostly succulents but they create great visual interest with the variety of size, shapes and textures.
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