These things happen at Struan Farm. John goes off on a business trip to Dunedin, tours a public garden and comes back with ideas. This was how the old swimming pool got turned into a rose garden, and that worked out well, didn't it?
An old, overgrown camellia has been taken out, other gardens re-edged and redesigned. It's all about walkways and flow.
Part of this project entailed extending the raised veggie bed at the Homestead and re-aligning Hydrangea Hill just ever so slightly.
Last year zucchini and butternut squash thrived on relative neglect in the smaller raised bed, so I'm contemplating more of the same this year. Perhaps some italian parsley and other herbs for Homestead farmstay guests to snip as well.
Here I thought the established gardens at the Homestead were pretty much on autopilot at this stage of the game. I've been focused on getting the newer gardens at the newish house established and thriving, hitting the Homestead gardens for weeding, trimming and clean up as required.
Clearly John has other ideas. Kew, Gardens of National Significance. I'll start hiring staff! In addition to the camellia, it looks like one trellis is coming down. With the camellia out two trellises in this area of the garden look odd. Beds in this part of the garden are also being enlarged and changed, beds for which I'm meant to get plants/shrubs. It's getting to be just a bit late in the season for that, but I hear and obey. Mostly.
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