Well aren’t I the lucky one?
My uncle came up to visit this Christmas, he has just retired from his job as a lecturer in arboriculture at one of the big universities. He has taught there for many years and before that lived and studied in the United States. Anyway, he has literally hundreds of horticultural and gardening books from information laden text books through to big glossy coffee table numbers.
Well he decided he needs to pare down his collection a bit and so I was the lucky recipient of many fantastic books. As you can imagine, I’m very happy about it. Loads of inspiration there.
Happy New Year everyone! I finally planted my coriander and thai basil plants today that have been sitting waiting in their pots for over a week! I deliberated over where to plant a beautiful double white tree dahlia I was given too, but cannot decide where it will go yet. Because we are still building our house and have yet to put on the front verandah, I find it hard sometimes to get an ‘overall’ idea of what the completed picture will look like. Therefore it is at times difficult to know where to plant things. Maybe I should just let the plant decide..I have read about people planting by this method. You take the plant and walk around the garden with it until you get a strong feeling that it would be happy in a certain position. Has anybody else heard of this? Or possibly even tried it?
