July Monthly Meeting

It was a very frosty start to the July morning for our get together at Shirley K’s in Paddys Close. We were definitely all rugged up from top to toe as it took a while for the day to thaw from a minus start.

The water feature remained iced until after 11am! We were all greeted by a chirpy “hello” from Shirley’s pet parrot.

After Shirley’s house was built she was left with a large barren area, devoid of any topsoil and on a steep slope. To counteract this Shirley has used rocks for stepping and garden bed building. She has fenced her “backyard” area not only for her dogs but for fauna control.

Shirley has an array of local and exotic species growing, with a large amount of succulents enjoying the situation both in front and behind the house.

Our meeting was held inside Shirley’s warm home with about 21 gardeners attending, discussing various topics from compost making, tea making from the recent workshop at Windellama Landcare; storing of dahlias; pruning regimen of roses in our area; to name a few.

We then walked around Shirley’s garden in the wonderful sunshine impressed by Shirley’s prowess in succeeding to grow plants of any sort on a virtual moonscape.

by Denise

Our next discovery tour get together will be at Irene & Lloyd Turner’s home on Tuesday 7^th August.