This has been a year-long project where I photograph our garden each month. The garden is still sporting some thigh-high weeds that grew up while we were away but I’ve got a fair bit of it weeded and I gave the Myoporum a massive haircut today. I thought it might be fun to compare with the photos from January.
The growth in the garden over the year has been amazing. I’m looking forward to the plants growing enough to fill in the gaps in the next year.
The biggest surprise in the garden has been the everlasting daisy I planted in February. It has been flowering constantly since then and has expanded from the small 20 cm diameter plant to stretch over a metre. I gave it a haircut in September but it needs another one.
Do you have a plant that rewards you all year without you having to lift a finger?
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4 responses to “In The Garden – December 2023”
Yum, that tomato looks delicious! I would love to have fresh tomatoes right now, and actually have cut way back on buying them from the store as it is just not the same as a nice one from the garden! I have stopped growing too many over the last few years, but luckily my brother has perfect tomato weather and the drive to keep growing them year after year so we have a lot of fresh ones in the summer.
I am luckily to live in a place (San Francisco Bay Area) where it is never too cold or hot and it is usually humid. This means that I barely have to water my yard! I also planted a lot of drought resistant items like lavendar and fruit trees and they just do their own thing.
We ate the tomatoes yesterday and they were yum. Lucky you having home grown tomatoes from the brother.
I can imagine San Francisco would be a good place to garden. Fruit trees and lavendar are excellent long maintenance plants.
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