Making a New Entry Statement

Our Front Entrance

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.

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Did YOU hear me speak at The Perth Garden Festival?

CREATIVE CONTAINERS-THE ONLY 3 WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW

Thank you to all of the wonderful Perth garden lovers who came to hear me speak at Perth Garden Festival last Thursday.

This year, the highlight of the Perth Garden Festival was the amount of great down to earth information available to visitors. Easy tips to make your gardening journey in Perth more successful and more fun.

My talk was about giving people some imaginative ways to smarten up their containers using the latest en trend plants available in Perth for Autumn 2019.

I shared the only three words you need to know for successful planting I learned from my trip to Chicago last year and if you stick with these easy-to-remember words you too can garden like a pro and save money at the same time.

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