High time for garden work, and did some transplanting. We have a number of what we had
thought were Olearias until Laurel Gordon
put me right and confirmed that it's a Marguerite daisy. There were a number of these
bushes in far too cramped conditions in the north bed, so on transplanted two of them to a
border to the south-east paddock:
Also transplanted some Gazanias and
some Dianthus which we had
planted in inadequately prepared soil which is now so
overrun with weeds that we can't really do anything. Instead, we'll let them grow elsewhere
and plant something else where they were once we have done our weeding. It's amazing how
much root they have developed in a little over three months of autumn. Planted the Gazanias
at the north:
I'll be interested to see how they change in the course of time.
In the Spring we got a single piece
of Carpobrotus glaucescens, which we
pulled apart and planted in the succulent bed. The bed proved too small, and it just about
smothered everything else in it. Now we've pulled it out and planted some of it
along the east border of the big bed: