Potted Colour

Winter has a way of making things in the garden look they’ve been abandoned, like this garden planter which has been completely taken over by weeds.

When spring finally arrives it’s time to get out in the garden and get everything back into some kind of order. I started by emptying the planter and giving it a bit of a scrub to clean it up a bit.

Then came the fun bit... filling it with garden mix and a few flowering plants. I chose Pansies, Lobelias and Sweet Williams. I bought them before they’d started flowering as they were cheaper to buy that way, which meant I didn’t know what colours I was going to get until they started flowering.

I probably wouldn’t have chosen pinks and purples if I had the choice but I reckon I probably couldn’t have chosen the colours any better.

It’s amazing how a bit of colour can brighten up your day.

The way it turned out the colours tied in nicely with the orchids which I moved from their storage area, to brighten up the front of the house.

Alphabetical Index to Articles

This is my 100th blog post.

With that many articles it is difficult even for me to keep track of everything I’ve written. And also because I sometimes like to go back and update articles I’ve written, I decided to create a detailed index with links to various subjects to help make finding stuff easier. I hope you find this helpful, although it is by no means complete and will likely be updated frequently.

Birds:
Chickens
Kakas
Rosella
Silver Eye (or Wax Eye)
Tiger Finch
Tui
Wood Pigeon

DIY:
Building a BBQ
Building a Rockery Garden
Building a Sleepout (8)
Mantlepiece 1
Mantlepiece 2
Recycling Old Decking
Retaining Walls

Flowering Plants:
Clivia
Bougainvillea
Frangipani
Hydrangeas
Lillies
Potted Colour
Roses

Other Plants:
Bromiliads

Garden Layout:
How it all started
Planter Boxes
Pots
Raised Gardens
Retaining Walls
The Archway
The Rockery
The Pergola

Garden Essentials:
Composting
Economics
Worm Farming

Garden Inspiration:
Auckland Botanic Gardens
Auckland Winter Gardens
A Visit to Kenrokuen Garden in Japan
The 'Back to Eden' Gardening method
The Great Greenhithe Garden Tour
The Great Greenhithe Garden Tour (intro)

Trees (fruiting):
Apples
Avocados
Feijoas
Figs
Grapes
Guavas
Mandarins
Oranges
Peaches
Plums
Plums (Blossoms)
Plums (Pollenation)

Trees (other):
Palms
Tree Maintenance (2)

Unusual Plants:
Florence Fennel
Myoga Ginger

Vegetables:
Beetroot
Brassicas
Broccoli
Cabbage
Capsicums (Red)
Capsicums (Green)
Cauliflower
Kumara
Potatoes – Crop failure
Potatoes – 2nd attempt
Pumpkins
Tomatoes – Growing
Tomatoes – Harvesting
Winter Crops – Harvesting
Winter Crops – New Garden