In the Garden at Uccello Lane

Spring Late – 2019 Guest Photographer

Spring 2019 has been glorious – after the hot summer we had some good rainfall – and now it is lush. We had a guest photographer capture some of Uccello Lane – and some old photos of how it was.

Starting with “The Bank” everything is in flower including the wisteria, snowball trees and the lavender. Have a look at how it was in 2013 .

The Bank

Iris getting ready to flower

Trav’s Trees clear away bank

July 2013 – Heading towards the Cherry tree on the Bank

Bank in July 2013

The Bank

Seaside Daisy

Seaside Daisy growing in a rock

Snowball Trees

Wisteria

Trees

The Bank

Lavender Hedge

The Bank

Yellow flowers

Pale yellow flower

The edibles and kitchen garden are getting planted – and the fennel has taken over.

Spring Onion

Leafy Green

Chooks

Mango Marigold

Fennel

Hedges

Strawberries

Poppies

The birch forest with the helibores underplanted and trees with bark that look like an owl..some old pictures from 2015 – before the birches grew

Birch forest

Smoke Bush

Standing Tall like a Birch tree

Trav’s Trees guys do the clearout

Birch before they grew

Trees Tagged

Wisteria

Helibores

Trees – Owl

The Secret Garden has a lavender hedge and a new wrought iron door to peep through – it all started with a string line and some plastic fencing…

The Secret Garden

String Line set up to start

Vince fixing the Secret Garden Door

Excavation

The Secret Garden

Before the Hobbit Door

The Rosa Arbor is in getting ready to burst – and the natives are also keen to get in on the season…

then it across to CrabApple Walk – past the dry stone wall and across to the perennial garden

…..From the beginning

Hellebore

Salvia Pink

Hellebore

Flower after the rain again

Wattle

Rose – Carpet on the bank

Hellebore

Salvia

Rosemary Hedge

Wattle

Tree Fern

Lilly Pilly

Rosemary in the rain

Flower after the rain

Summer Joy

Blue Salvia

Red Flower that keeps on flowering

Wattle

Hellebore

Yellow Flower – Daisy

Daffodils

Hellebore

Cherry Blossom

BlueBells

Hellebore

Lobelia

Hellebore

kangaroo getting ready to leap

ARt Deco Wrought Iron

Daffodils

Tree Fern

Wattle

Dry-Stone Wall

Romantic Garden – Shirley Minster from Creswick

As part of the Open Garden for Creswick we went to Shirley Minster beautiful rose garden. It is a rather romantic garden in very difficult conditions fighting rabbits, a hard clay soil and a very limited water supply. The Smoke bush is amazing but the heroines are the Roses.

Creswick Romantic Garden

Smoke Bush

Creswick Romantic Garden

Dry Stone Wall – Before (2016) and After (2019)

July 2016 – before the stone wall, the fernery and the lavender hedges. No plans it just evolved.

Then by May 2019 it was a much different vista!

Before the Salvias and Hedge

Pathway is in

Ready to plant

No stone wall yet – 2016

Fernery and Lavender

Green Plant

Salvia on the wall

Stone Wall – 2019

Flora and Fauna after the rain….May 2019

It was a long dry summer and it was not until May that we finally got some good soaking rain – the garden responded and grass peeped through quickly – and the kangaroos quickly ate it.

kangaroo getting ready to jump..

Kangaroo doing some weeding

Agapanthas

Protea

Grevillia

Lorependlum

Eremophilia Scarlet

Eremophilia White

Eremophilia Pink

Rose in the Rain

Japanese Windflower

Bergundy

Lemon Myrtle

Green Plant

Native Violets

Bark and Red Hot Pokers

Wistringa and Red Hot Pokers

Climber

Back Fence

Just keeps growing

Seaside Daisy

Leaves already falling

Rosemary

Camolmile

Pink Impatients

Yellow Daisy

Rosa – Carpet

Rosa on the bank

Birches and Pear Trees – Moss and Mold

The Birch trees are now in their 4th year – they are not quite a forest yet but soon. The Pear Tree is more than 40 years old and is covered in moss and mold but produces pears each year to feed the birds and possums.

Pear Tree

Silver Birch

Cheery Blossum – about to drop leaves

Wattle

Wisteria getting ready for winter

Wisteria and wistringer balls

Lemon Myrtle

Cherry Blossom

Silver Birch Bark

Over the Birch forest

Standing Tall like a Birch tree

Planting ready

Perfect says Adam

Birch Forest – “Move it a bit further – but keep it random..”

Birch Forest – Early Days

Looking through the Birch Forrest

Rosa di Pagola, Artichokes – and an Alien Salvia!

Rosa di Pagola has emerged from its life as a cricket pitch. There is a meandering path down that leads past the artichokes with their purple seed heads – and then the alien salvia…

Rosa di Pagola

Salvia – ALien

Just Joey Rose

Fragrant Roses

Old Fashioned Rosa

Bushy Rose

Pink Carpet

Great rose blloms

Long View – Rosa di Pagola

Pathway to Rosa di Pagola

Apple

Carpet Roses in white

Teepee and Rose

From the Rosa Pagola

Teepee and Just Joey

Rose TeePees

Rosa di Pagola

Pom Pom Tree – Spring 2018

The Pom Pom Tree is out – almost breaking under the weight – it looks good enough to eat!

Pom Pom tree

Variegated Blue

Poppy

Sage

Burgundy Flowers

Urn on the Hill

White Plant

Hellebore

Straw Flower

Gates to the Boardwalk

Stone Wall – 2019

Woodland takes shape – down the boardwalk

So the woodland is starting to grow – down the boardwalk stairs into the native rain forest – and emerging into the “Edna Walling” Walk. The roses have been moved and the birdhouse has a resident kookaburra.