Vegetables and Herbs
I do love how colourful the area around the birdbath has become - maybe a little too wild though - I could see some cutting back was needed soon. The coleus edging can take over - it started out as one little four inch pot, now is a ground cover in two areas of the garden, The madevilla vine is also getting quite heavy and the arch had rusted though and was bending. It needed some stabilizing and re-inforcing. I guess it was not designed for such heavy use. I have also noticed that the birds are not visiting the birdbath as often - maybe there is enough water around, but then again maybe they dont like to feel "trapped" inside under the arch. So I pruned back the cats whiskers around the birbath and moved the birdbath right out from under the arch. It will be more convenient there anyway as we need to be quite vigilant about cleaning out standing water so that the dengue mosquitoes dont breed. Once the wet s...