Rosemary's Garden

One area of garden on our property which has been making steady progress is Rosemary's garden. Rosemary, my mother in law and her husband live with us on the property and she has a good sized garden along the road side of the house.

Rosemary has taken the original contemporary planting and has added mainly traditional style planting to fill in the gaps.  There are tonnes of flowering plants, which are small now, but will bush out to create a sprawling cottage garden look.  She also has a love of bromeliads, native grasses and succulents which have found their way into the scheme.

Eventually we plan to build a boardwalk leading from their parking space to a decked area leading off their personal living space.  Removable covers for the gas cylinders and A/C units are on the cards too as they look very untidy at the moment. Ideally the garden will be also be fenced off to give them peace and privacy and further shelter their garden from wind.

Further down the roadside, the garden narrows off and transitions into our garden.  Our small vege raised bed sits just off our deck (very handy to the kitchen) and my new patch of garden further along, which I only planted out at the beginning of Spring is growing well.

I'm especially happy with growth of my low growing grevillea, which was an investment plant.  I would dearly love to add more grevillias to this garden and I also have my eye on some of the new varieties of hebe, but these will have to wait.

It will be worthwhile waiting until early summer to post more photos of these gardens because I can see them really taking off this year and the result is going to look amazing!