Hey Mark
My garden is loving the neglect!
My front garden is looking okay - Turkeys are making minced meat of anything their claws can grab hold of, cheeky things.
The trees out there are HUGE now, so need some hard work again sighhhh lol....
ZERO lantana out the front. YAY!
Back garden ANOTHER story 🤔🤨😅
We tackled the lantana pretty darned well but it's rearing it's conniving self again lol.
I've gotta be happy with our work.... 600 sqm of lantana removal was DIFFICULT to do this year, so I'm proud of that.
Other weeds are HUGE, some were killed off with the searing HEAT.
Need whipper snippering!
SO my plan next year is to hire my gardener on a more regular basis.
I get regular leave from work so I'll ask him to work on each of my leaves (lol leaves / gardens).
Assist him then.
Then one session during my work, say every 6 weeks or so. He needs to work alone.
My Gardener isn't licensed to cut higher than 3m, so he can only do pruning etc.
I'll have to get more tree work done but am not that financial atm....
I really need to employ Monty Don's Principles to do it all sensibly ie establish a good routine in the garden (but my focus besides the kids and my career is my house and designing my cabin too!)...
Monty Don's Principles sic:
"Pruning in Summer tends to RESTRICT growth.
Pruning in Winter tends to PROMOTE growth.
So in Summer you prune the strongest growth HARD.
In Winter you prune the weakest growth hard."
Tree work is very expensive and I've done most of it myself for years, but they need more hard core lopping, so it's something I need to budget for.
I need to change my schedule of the most expensive bills coming in Jan / Feb so I can get loppers out in Summer each year. (THEN deal all year with the dead branches!!!)
We're changing around THREE bedrooms this Summer!
omg I didn't realise how hard this would be. Mainly bec we have to rip up the last bit of carpet in one of the big rooms, so where does ALL my bedroom furniture go? LOL the nice neat loungeroom! Yuck! This'll be AFTER Christmas!
Since prodigal son had the LARGEST bedroom and he moved out... I'm taking it. Then youngest D will have my old room and he can have the smallest room upstairs now since he's not here much.
So we're clearing unwanted stuff OUT of our rooms before moving. 1st time in over 10y that we're changing bedrooms around, so it's a LOT lol!!
Plus we stored ALL out things from downstairs UPSTAIRS during the demon era...
Dentist now lol..
EMxxxx