Over the last years I have started to really dig gardening! (Millie and I spend ages out there weeding, her tiny toddler's fingers are great for those stubborn little ones in the brick cracks) and I guess because we've thrown some money at landscaping I suddenly feel the need to make it work! Yesterday a local landscaper (who I'd nervously contacted after getting his flier in the post) arrived to spend a day here. We talked about what had gone on before (he wasn't very complimentary about the last guy!) and decided things were in the wrong holes, too cluttered and a couple of planting beds which I'd wanted to become 'walls' of planting (only because real brick walls cost too much) were looking pretty sad. A mere smear of ground cover then a couple of spindly tall trees do not a wall make! After dropping Millie at kindy we took of in his ute to the big tradesmen's nursery where I fell in love with Corokia Frosted Chocolate and we agreed it would do a lovely job of being that middle tier I so needed. SO we bought 23 and came home and stuck them in the ground. It was a drizzly warm day, perfect for transplanting. I attach a photo of the patio and planting...oh and one of Millie washing sand ;-)
