shiukopuppy's Blog

As I mentioned, the native garden is partly mulched. Here's a picture! It may not look like much but this humble corner is producing gorgeous flowers! I'm hoping that the sun will bleach the mulch so that it's all the same color. If not, I'll spread the darker (pricier) mulch over the top. We bought our natives as tube stock so their growth spurt has been exciting.

This photo indicates the neglect that this garden suffered - this area was previously used for parking. The soil is compacted and only weeds grow. Native garden aside, my neighbor and I spent a lot of our sunday removing flat weeds and prickly clover from the back lawn. She can direct her gray water onto the lawn so we will be planting drought resistant and indigenous lawn seed.

We also had a man hanging around our garden which is the reason that we put up the bamboo fencing where our fences were broken down. You can see some near the old plum tree in the photo. We now have better privacy and hopefully better security. We all love this little piece of land and want to protect our home, and my female neighbor and I don't want anymore men coming in freely.