My Front Garden
kathiemt on Apr 5th 2007
About two years ago I finally got around to working in our front garden. We’d had a new paved path laid several months before for our eldest daughter’s wedding but we’d not done anything else with the garden after our home was renovated several years ago.
The neighbour across road had removed their top soil to make changes to their garden and it was left in a pile on the nature strip for anyone to take. So Graham took our wheelbarrow over the road several times and filled it up and brought it back for me so we could level off the ground on either side of the pavers and I began to work on our garden. We had a couple of trees and some bushes but nothing else.
Over a 6 month period (Nov - Apr) I made constant trips across the highway to Bunnings (so convenient being that close to home) and brought back more plants. I’d take the car if I needed to buy things that were too heavy to carry (like 40ltr bags of bark) but otherwise I walked so the exercise was good too.
Eventually we began to see flowers in the garden and different ground covers starting to reach across the ground. We also have a fish pond which we put in around 10 or so years ago so that is not looking so bare now, with lots of plant life around it.
With the drought in Victoria my main challenge is keeping things watered and to stop weeds growing. After several months indoors I’m venturing back out again into the garden. The cooler weather is more pleasant to work in, and hopefully we’ll start to get more rain. We’re allowed to water twice a week in the morning but the rest of the time we place buckets in the showers with us and I also collect all the rinsing water used in the kitchen sink. So we have containers sitting around in the house for the collection of ‘grey’ water so we can keep watering our garden. Below are photos of the garden about six months after I started work on it.
