The verge garden is coming along nicely 6 months down the track. This is the more successful end, it's booming. Council will eventually move those stakes, which will improve the look as well.
This is a detail - this plant is pretty much overshadowed by the rest of the bed, but provides a little surprise for those who look closely. There are some local geraniums just visible behind them - they are fiercely competitive. I'm quite curious to see who ends up "winning" this bed.
Below is the other end - it struggled for a while but is coming into it's own. The white flower belongs to a Randwick geranium. There's actually almost exactly the same mix of plants this end as the other - I'm amazed by the difference.
I haven't quite got the layout to work - but you should be able to see (back at the lush end) the knotweed
fighting it out with the geranium.
Main road - of course the jacaranda is a weed.
This is the beginning of a 50+ ha stand of bush, 5 mins from the new place.
We did think abut buying the place on the corner here, but a.) bushfire, b.) it really needs to be demolished , c.) see that blue post in the midground? That's the edge of the official floodplain.
I've never seen a tree trunk quite like this before
