The landscape gardener has been busy, planting out gardens in front of several of the newly occupied villas. The well established villas already have their own little front gardens, and as we do not have any lawn laid yet, presumed that we would be waiting some time till it was our turn. Not so – we were on the planting plan too. This service is provided by the village management to ensure that the communal areas are of the same standard.
A large tree was going in the front lawn – we will finally have lawn sometime when the lawn seed is sowed. The ground was rock hard under the few inches of top soil and the workman made short work of digging the large hole required with his kango hammer.
Easier than digging a hole by hand
The Golden Gleditsia was duly planted, securely staked, and watered. Two carpet roses were added, a white and a red, to complete the picture.
Golden Gleditsia specimen tree
Four small shrubs were then planted alongside the driveway. I recognised the two hebe bushes, as we have grown them before. Hebes are native to New Zealand, and generally flower very well, which attract plenty of bees. But goodness knows what the other two shrubs are, my plant knowledge does not stretch that far.
Landscape gardener watering the front garden
While all this was going on, Robin was busy in the back yard planting out our rhubarb plants. We had potted up some cuttings from our well established rhubarb from our previous home, and the plants were starting to look a bit worse for wear. Derek had kindly been looking after our plant pots all these months. He even donated some sheep manure so it was about time we finally took our plants back and liberated them from the pots. The manure will give the rhubarb a good boost, so we may well be able to cook up some rhubarb crumble again before too long.
Rhubarb planted in the back corner
Our new lemon tree is doing very well too, and has produced a few flowers. Wonder if we will get lemons this year? Probably not - I imagine the tree is a little too young just yet.
Lemon tree seems to be thriving
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