A cool morning with weather forecast for showers and possible thunderstorm but none happened. Hubby, myself, Samuel and our church-mate Robert went over to our new property to get some work done after our church service. We have ordered our 24 pots of Pittosporum Golden Sheen and we planned to plant them in two weeks' time, so we needed to make way for them.
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Work done :
1. Cleared all existing mulching and weed mats and all the roses and small bushes.
2. Chopped down the oleander shrub (which was huge) and camelia with a chain saw.
Mulching, roses, shrubs and weed mats cleared.
Oleander sawn down to stump.
I was very pleased to spot a huge arum lily flower (above) along the fence. If not for the flower, I would have pulled all the 'unknown plants' up!!! I realised that they are all arum lillies growing...one of my favourite flowers which I had used for my wedding.
Another lot of arum lily plants which I have to either remove or replant them as they are in the way of the Pittosporum Golden Sheen.
Camelia sawn down as well.
All the branches of the oleander stacked up at another two stretches of mulching, waiting to be slowly cleared.
_________________________Now we have to just wait for the professional we have hired to poison the stump and dig them up and of course, to dig holes and plant the pittosporum hedge. How exciting to see my hedge up! It will be a very different scenery.____________________________Follow up work that we have to do soon :1. Raking up the fallen plum leaves. 2. Weeding the growing dandelions and lamb's tongue (as usual sprouting up everywhere) 3. Figuring out how to remove a few existing calla lillies and replant them somewhere else as they are growing on the area where the pittosporum golden sheens are to be planted. 4. Chopping and gathering useful straight stems from the oleander for use as stakes. 5. Pruning the large plum tree (paying a professional to do that).
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