Landscaping

We've been busy over the past few weeks sorting out the garden and landscaping, now that it's finally warm enough to plant things.

The vege garden is a work in progress - the bean rack will be going up this weekend along with the lettuces but the peas, spinach, spring onions and herbs are doing well and the rhubarb is growing like a weed.

We also planted two feijoa trees in the hope that some time in future we won't have to pay $30 a kilo for feijoas! We've been told that Kelvin Heights is the best place in Queenstown to grow feijoas but it's still a bit hit and miss here so fingers crossed!

In the background of this shot is another possible fruit tree that has produced a few white blossoms but we have no idea what it is or if it's actually even a fruit tree so I guess we'll just wait and see!

We also continued the pittisporum hedge around the outside of the property. Again, in 3-4 years time these should be around about the right height for complete privacy. They're fairly hardy though and we have about 30 others so we're pretty confident they will enjoy the conditions.

You might also notice the new rock borders and new paths - the paths were always sort of there but now you can see where they are, and the rock border continues the theme we started up by the road side.

Our other fruit tree is a cherry tree of some kind. Again we're not sure which variety or if it's ornamental or edible, but we'll find out in a few months! If the number of blossoms is anything to go by it should produce plenty of fruit - maybe for us and maybe just for the birds...

More of the rock borders, and some of our new tussocks. The last thing to do in here is to put down bark, which we'll do in a few weeks. The grass is also looking a lot greener than when we moved in - amazing what not driving on it, watering it and feeding it will do..... it was a complete dust bowl when we arrived.