Missed Some Things..

Azaleas - all flowered reasonably well except one plant,didn't have even one.

Dietes - are in about their fifth blooms, they're great! Seed heads have formed so I'll be eagerly awating to harvest them.

Was a Good Girl today and made fruit fly bait for the nectarine tree and also took off a bucketful of immature fruit.

Camelia - finished, was happy with the flowers.

Gardenias - are looking slightly pale, so I've fertilised them. No sign of buds :(

Cape Gooseberry - cut off the older canes a few weeks ago, there was already lots of fresh new canes and they continue to grow weel; they already have flowers and fruit.

Hippeastrum - I have two flowers! Didn't expect any this year due to having disturbed and pulled babies off the bulbs.

It's forecast to rain for the rest of my holiday week so I probably wont get any more gardening in.

Biiiig Day in The Garden

I have lavished such attention on my lawn today that I'm sure it will die of fright.

Involving about 5 hours of work on the front lawn I:
* aerated it by hand, with a garden fork (I do not have a small lawn, and fully expect my arms to drop off when I get out of bed tomorrow morning)
* pulled out the worst of the flat weeds - there were lots of them
* raked up said flat weeds
* mowed the lawn
* fertilised
* turned on the sprinlers to find one not working, about an hour later and much swearing and cursing (well not really, I'm not the swearing type) they were all working
* watered the lawn for 20 minutes.

Now if the silly thing doesn't grow well after that then I'm about to give up!!

In other garden news:
Mango - is starting to flower. Gave it some NPK Blue in honour of the flowers.

Peach - is flowering, but seems to be only on a spike growing from the base of the tree. I'm not sure whether it's below the graft or above ... will wait and see what eventuates.

Nectarine - is in fruit .. may spend some time tomorrow taking off some of the fruit and maybe make a fruit fly trap.

Hyacinths - tallest flowers I've ever had on them. Not as many flowers on the spikes as I thought there would be though.

Freesias - flowered and finished.

Vege patch - seems to be doing fine, however weeds are starting to grown and with the bird netting (to stop the cats digging) makes it impossible to weed . The Pak Choi seeds have sprouted but no sign of any corn.

Avocado - flowering.