Our New Garden Plans

Hello Dear Reader,

We are in the process of sprucing up the other side of the garden, I guess you would call it the business side of the garden, where the hot water system, air conditioning units and the clothes line are, it is also our little black cats "Ninja" side of the garden. We installed a cat run with fine mesh covering the whole side so she is safe from our two Jack Russell's, Lulu and Pippa. Unfortunately our dogs are natural born killers and wouldn't think twice before attacking her, if they had the chance. Just yesterday, I had the unfortunate job of cleaning up the terrible mess left behind, from the dogs interaction with a beautiful and docile blue tongue lizard.

The photos below are what it used to look like, large overgrown and very spiky plants and long grass that used to take up a lot of footpath too. We chose completely the wrong types of plants to plant here. Those spikes were at eye level, it's a wonder no one was ever impaled!

So far all the plants and rocks have been remove leaving old spent soil which still has to be wheelbarrowed out then some new garden beds formed using left over concrete sleepers from when LH made the raised garden beds on the other side. We will then plant out a cat friendly garden with cat grass and cat nip. Hopefully she will enjoy it. I have also moved all of the potted pineapple plants around that side, yes they are spiky but at least they are not at eye level.