25 March 2009

Kitchen Garden.

Have been busy putting in a garden and paved area outside my kitchen. The photo on the right is before, when I had just started putting paving down. It is recycled concrete, I got it from down the street after some company had ripped up the pavement to fix something or other. They were just going to dump it. The garden edging (left) is old wine bottles, and no, I didn't drink them all myself! behind that is a tier of rocks brought from my last house. The plants are mostly rescued from a skip, so the total cost of this garden was about $5 for the mulch! There is a Cycad rescued from some guys garden, he had ripped up about 6 of them, and left all the root balls still in the ground, this was the only one with any roots at all, and even then only very few, so I hope it survives. I think it is Cycas revoluta(?) sago palm. So the plants are;

Macaranga tanarius, Spear tree

Davidsonia pruriens, Davidsons Plum

Diploglottis australis, Native Tamarind

Castanospermum australe, Moreton Bay Chestnut

Pipturis argenteus, Native Mulberry

Native Elderberry

Rhodomyrtus psidioides , a Native Guava

Cordyline rubra

an Iris

Cycas revoluta

Apart from the Iris and the Cycad, all are native and have edible parts.