Phew... a busy concert week is now over, and apart from the ongoing administrative and financial wrap up... well, the craziness is mostly over. And that means that I can return back to blogging... and the garden!

We do have a large wood mulch pile that has been sitting around after a large tree got taken down (it was damaged in the storm, and to be honest, I wasn't sad to see it go... it was a sheoak that had gotten way too large for the area, just loomed over our house and a few of the neighbours as well. Fine for the riverbank, but perhaps not a great idea for a residential area.

So, I've been meaning to get that mulch out into the garden whilst the ground was wet and soft enough for weeding and while everything was still dormant for the winter. So, first a clearing of the area...

Followed by a multiple wheelbarrow trips around to the other side of the block to pick up the wood mulch... it has been sitting around for several months now, and so it has already started to decay... every little pitchfork would send up a cloud of stuff... perhaps I should wear a mask for this?

... and then straight out onto the recently cleared area. I've started off light, this first tranche was to complete the circling around the bricked off area... which also still needs to finish a weedmatting and recovering with river gravel... but hopefully this layer of wood mulch will help keep a border around that area and prevent too many weeds and grass growing under the border into the rock area.

Oooops... almost covered up this not weed. My wife had this idea that a couple of these native plants would grow and provide ground cover in this area. Over the last two years, their growth has been spectacularly unspectacular. I'm not sure if it is because they are a little bit shaded... or if I've run over them a couple of times with a loaded wheelbarrow. In any case, they really aren't doing that much. I'm wonder if I should build a little rock circle around them, so that I stop running them over?

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