Filling up the Trailer

All these beautiful days! My kind of autumn!

I vaguely hinted at going on a bit of a hike today but we ended up getting stuck into tidying up the front/side of the house. Its an area that hasn’t been touched in forever!

Because its not seen and it grows no vegetables, it gets neglected.

The gum trees that tower over us on that side, shed a lot of bark and leaves – a constant issue, so its kinda easier to ignore than worry about it!

Whatever we do here, it will be a continual cleaning up effort – so apart from cleaning up the mess and pruning back shrubs, I am not really sure how to use the area.

We have a pretty amazing bush out front called “Lions Ear” I cut it back to the nub each year and it springs back bigger and better each time. It also self seeds rather happily, so we ended up with a front entrance issue

The flowers on this are rather unique – well I hadn’t come across anything like it before –

Closer look?

Anyway, so I went the hack

But then I had to get the roots out of the ones we weren’t keeping.

I think I broke off a lot of the tap roots somewhere..

I will keep these for a month or two until they are dry, then run them through the mulcher for the compost. (or kindling or garden markers)

I managed to clear a decent space!

Time to bring the trailer closer!

Meanwhile around the side, Jeff has gone from this –

To this –

And Mana wielding a spade –

has cleared this bit –

We found a tap!! And what’s more – it works!! Seriously! Been here for four years and had cursed the effort of getting water to this side, and all this time we had a tap!!

Still a bit of colour left in the hydrangeas!

A vast improvement so far!

Reckon the trailer is about full!

We gave up about now and came in for a late afternoon tea

Which entailed testing out all the relishes

And hot chocolate!!

I hope the start of your week has been excellent!

Cheers