Remembering my friends' beautiful dahlia border along their driveway, I thought it might be nice to have a row of dahlias along the front of my garden. That way I'd be greeted by a row of colour whenever I come home.
Most of my dahlias hadn’t come up yet, so it was fairly easy to plant them with a roughly equal distance between them.
Behind them, I planted two rows of sunflower seeds. As I don't yet have irrigation in place, I had to water it all by hand, so you can easily see where the two lines of sunflower seeds were planted.
In the back garden, the pepino plants were trying to take over the large garden bed.
Whilst this looks mainly like more pepino plant, there is actually a pear tree behind it all! I'm not sure why only this section decided to grow up and over rather than along the ground like the rest of it did before I got around to tying it to the wire trellis that I have attached to the fence.
My kiwiberry vine has flowers! I know it's a lot to hope for, but just maybe I might get fruit? This particular kiwiberry vine is a variety known as Issai and it's self-pollinating, so it is possible.
I'm also amused to see my purple cauliflower had produced a tiny little cauliflower floret for me. I don't think I'll crack out the au gratin recipe just yet though.
Lastly, I was finally able to mulch the second berry garden bed. Having enjoyed the abundance of purple African daisies in the first berry garden bed, I decided to use the many different coloured African daisies sitting around my alfresco to create some visual interest between berry brambles in the second bed. This left one extra gap, but I solved that by putting in one of the many lavender plants that have been waiting for a home.
It looks much nicer now with the mulch to help keep the soil friable and moist through summer.
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