G’day,Wanda,you must add the job’mindreader’to your arsenal because I recently commenced a kinda’secret garden’ when I fashioned a side door(into the street)from various timbers help together by an unseen steel frame,painted it red,and with the help of my children and’late’sweetheart, began the project.as I work full-time,time management is paramount,however,three years down-the-track I’m far from finished.I have added the’shy princess’series of statues,one of those has a fountain,and I’ve installed a pump and it works a treat.have silver birch’s to plant,grape vine looks good,especially in autumn,and apart from a handmade winding brick path and lavender bushes,I haven’t proceeded further until,UNTIL this morning(4:15am) after I returned from work I discovered 10 things that can grown under trees,etc.and,as I have a rainforest tree,there,I think,would be perfect for azaleas,rhodododendrons,hydrangeas,pieris japonica,Japanese’tree’peony,etc,etc.I have just added an almost life-size shy princess within the precinct of the r/f tree,however,when I open the side gate from the street’she’looks a little sad standing there withot proper company and,as I said recently,when I head to my nursery,I now have an added reason to visit besides seeking’blue’colour flora.thanks is true-‘show me your company and I’ll tell you what you are like’.cheers.Ron from’down under’. It gives me endless pleasure to tend and be in this garden. There’s also a water feature I’ve made myself by converting a stool into a toadstool on which I’ve placed this glass bowl with water. I’ve included some fairy elements as I also make miniature and fairy items and gardens. I have graded the plants so the tall ones go at the back when you look from different angels and the ground cover like plants bellow.
So it’s a container garden in which I have created the sort of secret garden with a mirror attached to one wall so as to give depth to the garden. Luckily for me these apartments have planter boxes and I use those abandoned by other dwellers. Only water that I use for washing my grains, fruits and vegetables in the kitchen and kitchen refuse I put into a compost pit, nourish the plants!
I have very little sunlight and rain in my front garden but much love and care has given me great results. I plant NASA accredited plants for air purification, mostly and they are doing wonders to give better air quality as I’m bang in the city! There’s a coffee table book by the same title by WW and it was my accidental finding of this book at a local library in Melbourne, Australia, that actually took me on the trail to discover the Secret Garden!! It was so much fun and so I shared this with you.īack home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, I have created a kind of fairy garden/Alice in Wonderland/secret garden in the front entrance area of my apartment! I also have plants extending to the inside of the house, the balcony area and the kitchen and every room of the house. I love secret gardens and I think I’ve visited the most amazing of secret gardens which is The Secret Graden of Wendy Whiteley in Sydney, Australia.