In December I wrote about some gardening I'd done in my local area - here's a bit of an update.
This morning I buzzed out to Heron Park on my bike. There's a surprisingly substantial wee orchard there:
I gave a decent dose of blood and bone fertiliser to all the trees that had set fruit - 4-5 apple trees, a pear tree and my key goal - the quince tree :-)
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the quince is covered in fruit - click on the photo to see it better.
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so much fruit! Puts our quince tree to shame. It's not much smaller, but has only set 3 fruit on the entire tree :-( Most of our garden gets no light...
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I then biked on to Rosebank Road, along to Patiki Road and back home along the Northwestern cycle way. It was such a lovely day for a ride and it was such a happy thing to do :-) There was absolutely no debris on the path, which was nice - maybe the storm didn't deposit any there, but more likely someone's done a decent job cleaning it all up :-)
Back home, I took a few more photos. Firstly, the rose I transplanted back in December is doing so well - it's had near-continuous flowers for weeks now :-)
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it's such a pretty rose!
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At the same time I'd also transplanted (and divided) a clump of what I think is a tufted granite lily - an Australian native. After transplanting, all the flowers died and lots of the leaves went black - but now all the plants are showing fresh green leaves, so hopefully they'll survive :-)
Hurrah!