After a long absence, I'm back! The
past few months have been busy and amazing. Michael and I have gotten
married and I took a break from this blog to organise the wedding. We
also took August and September off and spent 5 weeks travelling to
Europe which was amazing! We saw amazing garden balconies in Italy
and Switzerland. In Italy I saw stunning balconies covered in
bougainvillea. This has inspired me to pay more attention to my
golden bougainvillea as it has been sadly neglected. Last weekend I
put up some gardening wire mesh to encourage my bougainvillea to
grow up the wall.
Before we went overseas I tried to
prepare the balcony garden for our absence. I tripled checked the
balcony garden for bugs and tested the soil ph of all the pots. I had
too make major adjustments to the soil for the blueberry plants and
the persimmon tree. This worked wonders for the persimmon tree, as
there is new growth on the tree.
Due to the break I took from the
garden, I am now behind in my sowing for this spring/summer season.
Luckily a lot of herbs have lasted through the winter and still
happily growing such as the basil. However I will need to either
start new cuttings or sow more seeds soon
My guava tree is flowering and some of
the flowers are starting to turn into fruit which is very exciting.
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Guava tree flower |
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Fruit starting form on the guava tree |
The Feijoa tree is also flowering, however there is no fruit yet on this tree.
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Feijoa flower |
Recently I have brought some chilli
seeds as I want to try and grow chillies this spring/summer season. I
brought my chilli seeds from The Chilli Factory
(http://thechillifactory.com). As you can see from the pictures my
chilli are very small but hopefully they will grow quickly.
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Hungarian Black Chilli |
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Siam YELLOW Chilli |
