in Donvale. Quite a beautiful garden full of lovely roses and some gorgeous camellias. They had a fantastic yellow lobelia sitting amongst the shrubs. The block that the house and garden was sitting on was quite steep so it was quite remarkable that they had such a lovely garden it it. It must be painstakingly difficult to weed the garden beds.The second house was in Park Orchards. It was on a acre and I thinks what struck me at first was the lovely neat box hedging that welcomed you in and guided the visitor to the front door. They had an enormous vegie patch which I think Ang would love to have.
Next stop was Kuranga Native Nursery where we stopped to have lunch at the Candlebark Cafe before going on. The weather wasn't all that crash hot. In fact it was quite cold and wet. We decided to eat indoors as it was warmer. After lunch we wondered through the nursery and purchased a few plants.
After that we trave
lled to Wandin where we went to visit a native garden. At first I didn't like the garden as it looked messy, bare and unkempt. But as we went round the corner lo and behold was a more established garden with some beautiful trees, shrubs and wonderful flowers. I gained a lot of ideas for our block while I was wondering around. I think the garden was set on at least 4 acres of land. Mostly all native except when you came closer to the house where there were more exotic plants displayed. So tomorrow I will commence planting my own expantive native garden. ( or plan one anyway) I will start with the 6 tube stock I bought at Kuranga.I planted 6 natives in the paddock
Do you like my rose?
