The Garden of Our New Property!

We have purchased a new property and I am looking forward to moving in in December. For the time being, I will be kept busy doing gardening for two houses - rental house and the purchased house. Recently, hubby and I cut down three short native trees in the backyard of the new house. They have nice purple flowers but I really would like to use the limited backyard space for growing something useful. I have prepared part of the narrow gardening patch in that backyard by digging in cow manure, blood and bone and vegetable scraps. There are some lovely parsley, a lavendar bush and a pomegrenate tree growing in the backyard. I do not use parsley but it is worth finding out how to use them.

The short trees which were cut down to make space for vegetables. Some dead shrubs which I removed eventually.

Three beautiful drought-resistant plants which were too lovely to uproot. I decided to keep them. And I have pruned the lavendar (on the left).

Also pruned four giant lavendar bushes on the front of the new house. Almost died doing that! Out on the large front yard are an olive tree, a plum tree, a camelia (that looks dead) and a giant oleander shrub. I had always wanted an olive tree for years and I am very glad to get such a huge one that comes with the house! With some research and planning, I hope to grow : calamasi lime, kaffir lime, persimmon, apricot and many other vegetables in these two areas.

This little space with pebbles. I am leaving it as it is at this moment.

Another few lavendar bushes which have to be pruned.

The oleander on the left and olive tree in the middle. Grass is really parched from the heat wave.

The huge oleander shrub and the dead-looking camelia on the right.

Recently, I made two new friends - Winnie and Shih Yi. It is a wonderful thing making new friends especially those that come from the same country. There are so much we can identify with! Shih Yi is also keen on gardening. :)