Enchanted Garden
Our Enchanted Garden evolved over time like all the others. Originally paddock, then rough garden beds with lawn between them that I mowed on the rider mower. After a few years Paul prompted us to sand the entire lower front garden path area. after wheeling in 56 ton of granite sand with a little help from our son Lachlan we couldn't be more delighted.
The structure and the name came later and the wind chymes I bought from our friend Tanya. I've tried not to over do the enchanted theme but hey a bit of whimsy never hurt anyone.
On the south side it is flanked by one of our nine claret ash trees are planted in a gentle arch around the house.
On the north is one of nearly as many Paulownia trees. I can honestly say that this area is now fully self mulching in the Autumn. Yay. I couldn't tell you how many bags of Autumn leaves I gathered from people in town who didn't see their value or how many truck loads of mulch we've put on this area.
Under the shade of the ashes is my attempt at a self watering rhubarb patch. There are two nice big clumps of rhubarb planted in soil over the top of false bottomed baby pools. I decided to do this to reduce watering frequency and to prevent the ash trees from robbing the nutrients and water from the rhubarb. We bought a third baby pool and immersed it in the ground below the rhubarb and made a frog pond featuring blue water iris. See my blog for more details.
The structure and the name came later and the wind chymes I bought from our friend Tanya. I've tried not to over do the enchanted theme but hey a bit of whimsy never hurt anyone.
On the south side it is flanked by one of our nine claret ash trees are planted in a gentle arch around the house.
On the north is one of nearly as many Paulownia trees. I can honestly say that this area is now fully self mulching in the Autumn. Yay. I couldn't tell you how many bags of Autumn leaves I gathered from people in town who didn't see their value or how many truck loads of mulch we've put on this area.
Under the shade of the ashes is my attempt at a self watering rhubarb patch. There are two nice big clumps of rhubarb planted in soil over the top of false bottomed baby pools. I decided to do this to reduce watering frequency and to prevent the ash trees from robbing the nutrients and water from the rhubarb. We bought a third baby pool and immersed it in the ground below the rhubarb and made a frog pond featuring blue water iris. See my blog for more details.