This Week In The Garden, I am Chopping and Trimming, Planting and Fertilizing and so much more…

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Phew, what a week I have had, so far…the mornings are nice and cool and yet the afternoons are super muggy, humid and hot. We are still swimming in the pool and it’s a fun time of the year to be gardening here in Perth.

The calendar tells us that it is Autumn and if you have a close look around, there are some deciduous trees that are already turning golden hues and reddish tinges. My Cercis ‘Lavender Twist’ is all yellow and the leaves will fall anytime soon. I have planted a few Nyssa Sylvatica at various places in my neighborhood in the front gardens of friends’ homes and they have already shown us their sweet and very beautiful red leaves, just a few but enough to herald the change of season. The mornings are definitely cooler and the birds much more active in the garden, I think they are appreciating a little reprieve from the long summer.

This week we have the opportunity to “bring out our dead” which is what we call it when the council arranges to come and collect all of our green waste and also household junk sadly destined for landfill, though, I must say most of ours has gone hopefully to be repurposed by neighbors before it gets to landfill. So for me, that signals a time for a BIG post Summer prune and none of my plants is let off the hook, everyone gets a haircut!

We have a huge pile out the front of our place which is a very satisfying reflection of a big family effort. It will be gone next week, collected by a big truck that turns the green waste into compost and mulch.

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This Week In The Garden, I Am…Saying Farewell To ‘Pink Passion’

At our front door, I have two large grey urns on the verandah and when we first moved back into our renovated home I planted them out with a very pretty pink Cordyline called ‘Pink Passion‘. They looked great in those grey urns and provided a pop of colour against the grey render of our home which has white trim. Trouble is, they grew and unevenly too so this week, my OCD about having symmetry at the front door was kicking in very badly. I bit the bullet and removed two perfect healthy plants, hopefully for a better outcome. My husband was not 100% for this decision, I have to say.

Mine never looked this good but they looked nearly as good as this when they first went in

So, a hard decision that literally took months of thought…I know, I know first world problems and all that but it’s important to make the right decision, Hey, those Cordylines have been there for 7 years! Don’t you think it’s insane the way we hang onto some plants and we’re not quite sure why? I mean those Cordylines only cost me $14.99 each and I hung onto them despite not bringing me joy for a very long time! We don’t think twice about chucking out a bunch of flowers that we pay $20 for at the supermarket that barely lasts a week!

Since I pulled them out a few days ago it has been super hot and they have lost their pink and gone an icky shade of purple-destined for the green waste bin
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