{"id":4505,"date":"2017-09-18T13:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T01:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2019-09-18T23:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T11:31:43","slug":"an-english-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/an-english-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"An English Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

During our first summer here I created a Mediterranean Garden<\/a> from a previously arid wasteland<\/a>. This year I’ve been working on a companion piece: The English Garden.<\/p>\n

\"English<\/a>

English Garden<\/p><\/div>\n

The plot (haha) was hatched early in the year, when Stephen<\/a> and Favorite Stepson kindly removed a potentially house-lifting fig tree<\/a>\u00a0and a giant Yukka which had been elbowing\u00a0the deck on the west side of the house. A few weeks later my lovely ex- sister-in-law (is that a thing?), now my beloved sis-in-the-garden, came to visit. She arrived with a car full of plants from her Auckland place and together we weeded out swathes of kikuyu, dug in a few barrow-loads of horse poo goodness, and got to planting. Thank you Mrs Williams!<\/p>\n

\"Sweet<\/a>

Self-sown sweet peas (seeds originally from the aforementioned Mrs Williams).<\/p><\/div>\n

So far this new border has, in the best tradition of gardens, cost almost nothing. Apart from a couple of punnets from Mitre 10, all the plants have been grown from cuttings, gifted, moved from somewhere else on the property, or are self sown.<\/p>\n

These have been my sources (skip this section if you are not a gardener, it’s mainly for my own records):<\/p>\n