One of the interesting results of having a garden is that we now have a new topic of conversation.
During coffee fellowship today, I asked Alistair - who recently had his garden landscaped - about his new lo-maintenance garden. He tells me it's wonderful and requires so little care, and he would recommend the services of the landscaper who helped them with the job. However, it won't come cheap.
Over the past few Saturdays, we've been visiting Bunnings and various nurseries to see what types of mulch are suitable for our garden.
During coffee fellowship today, I asked Alistair - who recently had his garden landscaped - about his new lo-maintenance garden. He tells me it's wonderful and requires so little care, and he would recommend the services of the landscaper who helped them with the job. However, it won't come cheap.
Over the past few Saturdays, we've been visiting Bunnings and various nurseries to see what types of mulch are suitable for our garden.
Mulch is what you scatter on top of the soil to improve it and to make your garden look more presentable. There are mulches with different colours (black, red, brown), mulches that are organic or synthetic, mulches made from blood and bone, mulches that repel weeds, mulches that are good at water retention (very important in drought-ridden VIC).
The kind used by the ex-owners is the wood chip kind.
Right by our back door are a couple of citronella plants, very handy for repelling flies and mozzies.
Beth and I like to break off a stemful to use in the bathroom (scattered in a glass dish with pebbles), or we stick a stem in a recycled glass jar for when the kids are using the picnic bench. The flowers are a beautiful pink and smell wonderful.
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