Putting sunshine to good use

It was a pretty busy weekend for me, full of board games with friends and cooking with my older sister and mum. I did manage to find time to get a decent amount done in the garden too.

I potted up my recently purchased tomato plants, some strawberry plants that I bought a while back, the osteospermum (African daisy) seedling that I've promised to give to my mother, and my baby bay tree that my mum helped me trim to encourage bushiness. 

(Yes, my alfresco is full of empty pots and potted plants - I promise it will be clean enough to walk through again eventually!) 

I also potted up my poor midyim berry shrub that I bought six months ago and didn't get around to repotting out of its small original pot. I gave it a good sized pot to spread its roots around, which required some intensive untangling and teasing before I settled it in its new home. 

Bay tree and midyim berry at the front

I transferred my apple mint into a small trough planter, and already it looks nicer than when it was in the tall slim pot which had been my only available pot when first potting it up two years ago.

My mother gave me three young irises from her garden, so they got put in a pot as well.

I planted out four of my favourite osteospermums in the recently established garden bed along the back fence. I also planted my marionberry and silvanberry plants into that garden bed. After seeing how well the osteospermums in the other berry garden bed did, I'm hoping these ones will replicate that success with an abundance of colourful flowers next year.

And of course, I made progress on my front yard...

Only half the bottom garden bed left to go!