Great results guys. Rae it's nice to be able to resuscitate old plants like that as there's quite a few older specimens that aren't seen a lot in gardens today. Some nice old-school blue-stone edges there too.
Great results guys. Rae it's nice to be able to resuscitate old plants like that as there's quite a few older specimens that aren't seen a lot in gardens today. Some nice old-school blue-stone edges there too.
Cheers Paul. Do you know what that plant is called? The client(who was shocked and happy) said it was African, white clusters, light fragrance and they are rare these days, but thats all she knows. I did a bit of a search and found it is some sort of Dombeya. But i can't find anything with the double flowers. Not hugely important, but if you know what it is, let me know. I'm gonna try to take some cuttings I think, but I'm the crappest propagator out. I always end up forgetting to water and mist them. I struggle to even grow geraniums from cuttings. Oh, the shame.
Hey, sorry Rae just saw this - been at hospital in Brisbane today and just got home a little while ago.
I really want say it's a Dombeya genus but it's not one I've ever seen. I've exhausted nearly every resource I have to look at. Quite a few of them are on a document called "The introduced flora of Australia and it's weed status". Most, as you would have seen have cup shaped or star shaped flowers but this one is quite different.
I'll copy and forward your pics at some point as there's a guy on a gardening blog who knows a bit about them.
Here's a few (hundred) to work through on a rainy day to see if you can find pictures for the different plants listed to hopefully match it :-)
http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Malvaceae/Dombeya/
On ya Paul. I acknowledge your eternal frustration with health issues and appreciate your help that much more. Thanks for the plant list, I'll go through it cos it shlits me not knowing what a plant is.
Done 6 of these this week, looking forward to summer and dust
This was one of the tamer ones, and remembered to take a pic
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Nice result. Interesting Brachychiton Hillshoistis growing there in the yard. Never seen one with a trunk quite like it!
Had a fun project today, removing a concrete slab which was buried in the lawn. Cut the turf into squares so it could be re-layed back in place, lift the turf out which was fun in itself being 6" thick on the slab. Start swinging the sledge-hammer...l'm getting a bit beyond this sh!t....steal some soil to back-fill and re-lay the turf and top dress to fill the cracks. Jesus must love me, had 30mm of rain this arvo (could have done without the hail)
before...
hammer time...
back together...
light top dress went over this....then it rained!
http://curraronggardening.com/
"All sin is washed away in the Holy goodness of Beer"
Book of Redeye, Psalm 69
Started looking at the pics thinking how'd that turf come out so evenly, roots and all! Now I see why. Tidy result in the end.
was followed by several coldies on the veranda watching 3 whales
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edit - obviously had too many lol
http://curraronggardening.com/
"All sin is washed away in the Holy goodness of Beer"
Book of Redeye, Psalm 69
That scene would be so good to come home to every day.
Ok, ruff guess,(dont want to be too nosey, mmmm....$450 + 120 tip fees....assuming it took nearly all day....looks like a pr1ck of a job. Nice finish but chopping up concrete is soo hard to do.