Plans for the Garden, so far!

Come the spring do you plan what you would and would not like in your garden. Do you have areas you like and dislike. I do. Some more than others.

The neighbours fence is my biggest hate. It has most definitely taken a battering this year, lots of panels have popped out and refuse to go back in so I have had to put up chicken wire to stop Darcy going through.

For the past few springtime's, they have said 'we will be doing the fence' and nothing has happened.

This top part, I was trying to work out must be about 10 +/- years old

Now the blue painted fence is closer to 25 years old. It surprises me how it still stands.

The other day I was informed that they will be replacing the fence this year, you could have knocked me down with a feather. Hubby and I have always said that if ever they did do this, that we were prepared to buy the concrete gravel boards, as out garden is higher than theirs, I add more compost than they do and this would hopefully prolong the life of their fence.

I told them this, saying we would add 6 inch gravel boards at the top and 12 inch ones on the section by the pond area. So to allow for this when ordering. They where keen to go ahead quite quickly so I have ordered the gravel boards which will be arriving Wednesday and yes they do know! I just hope they buy the fence panels and go ahead.

I have been having physio on my back since before Christmas, it has been giving me so much jip! The physio has threatened me with all sorts if I dig in the  garden, but as you can see there is a problem here by the pond. The Rheum has started to roam and the piece of wood we put in to help protect the fence, has bowed considerably, so much so, no gravel board will slide in there!

Not sure what to do, but I suspect I will do it myself!

Whilst we are down by the pond, the other part I want to sort out is the other side by the water fall. This looked amazing when it was first done, 8 years ago, now, it looks a flipping mess. So I will be digging this area out as well. What I shall do with it, I have no idea?
A work in progress!

One is Growing!

The Hiniba is growing!

At long last we see movement!!! Little growing bud.

So excited , just got to keep it alive now!

Exciting..... we hope!

Back in November, I dug out my Ensetes and 'murdered' (propagated) my Hiniba.

Currently mine are looking very dead and dried out.  Now usually I am an 'it lives or it dies' type of gardener but because these are so rare,  I kept fussing over them, wanting to water them etc. and basically looking after them too much.

So the beginning of December I shut the bedroom door, so  couldn't see them. When I remembered I checked the dampness of the soil and if I thought they needed it added a little bit of water.

The other day a 'tropical plant' growing colleague on Facebook dug out one of his Ensete Maurelli's to see how his propagation of these where coming along. It had loads of babies on. Which set me thinking...... I wonder how mine are doing.

So I bit the bullet and just pulled them out of their pots to see if anything was going on.......

it was look at all the fresh white roots,

how exciting...

apologies for the fuzzyness of the photos, hubby took them whilst I was holding them.

Three out of four isn't bad. The fourth one had 'currently' nothing, having said that this is the furthest away from the heat, so maybe a little slow, but all the corms are very firm and the soil is slightly damp.

I didn't dig any further, I am happy that we have new roots, that gives me lots of hope.

I will keep you posted on my Ensete Hiniba propagation.