It's my biggest gardening flaw........apart from buying too many plants......planting plants too close together and not allowing for the growth of the plant. It's so easy to do when the plants are small, and the area is big. About three years ago, I decided to buy five Malus Purpureas, flowering crab apples, with dark green leaves tinged with purple. I thought that they would look so pretty with their pinkish-red blossoms and dark red crab apples, planted in between my Manchurian Pears (white blossom) along the front boundary garden bed. Because the Pears had already been in for a few years, they had a head start and quickly over shadowed the poor struggling Crab Apples.

They really do need to be moved.....as do ten Red Bassinio landscaping roses. Over the last ten years they have gradually been squeezed out by the blue agapanthus on one side and the Coprosmas on the other side.

It's the right time to move them all to a new garden bed.........an area was sprayed.......

On Wednesday, I mowed the area off........really really short.....and started moving some rocks for the new edging.

With the days getting shorter, I don't get a lot of daylight after I close the shop at 4pm to get out in the garden. Yesterday afternoon I mowed the lawns, and then this afternoon I moved a few more rocks and started arranging them.

I'm hoping to get the rest of the edging done over the next few days, so that next week I might be able to start relocating the plants. I have a few other plants in pots that I have grown from my garden, but I am sure that I will need some new ones to fill in the gaps........which means another trip to the nursery!
Linda :)