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New planters for the front verandah

So, I had some surgery on my thumb about a week ago and am one very frustrated gardener!

I received notification that two new urns that I ordered, had finally arrived in and were ready for collection.

Number 2 daughter, Georgia, is nearly always a willing assistant gardener in between her Nursing studies and her Harry Styles obsession, and so last Saturday morning, we set off early to collect the new urns.

My excitement obviously much greater than hers at this point. Saturdays are for sleeping in aren’t they? Well, they might be for most people (especially university students) but even with a bandaged thumb, not for me.

Our new garden project was well underway, can’t think of a better way to enjoy a Saturday morning, spending time with your daughter and gardening, is there one?

Well, a new urn is not complete without plants, right?! So let’s just say some plants needed to be purchased, along with some fresh new potting mix.

Each urn sits either side of our double entrance doors and so they need to be in perfect symmetry with each other for balance.

I selected some lightweight fibreglass planters that are about 70cms high.

In Perth, we are not really built for cold weather. That’s all there is to it. We kind of pretend that it never gets really cold in Perth and that the cold weather from June through to September is something that our Eastern states cousins have to endure. We complain when the temperature goes below say 23 degrees Celsius and whinge really badly if it sits at around about 18 like it is today. The wind is actually quite brutal today and our sensitive plants, also not really used to the colder days can get whipped about by the winds.

It is dark in the mornings until about 7am and gets dark again by about 530pm. I have to say that it’s really not my favourite time of the year and given the choice would be drinking champagne on a beach in Broome

The bottom line is though, that we have just come away from the driest May in history with almost no rain recorded and things were looking pretty dire for our farmers who had dry seeded in the hope of rain coming and also home gardeners who’s sandy soil has cooled but is as dry as a chip. We NEED this rain! This rain is getting through to the Wheatbelt and inland areas as well as giving our Perth gardens a really good soaking-it’s a good thing!

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