easter weekend

this weekend was easter and i tried vainly to get some gardening done in between the showers of rain that seem to descend upon the long weekend.

anyways here are the befores....

 check out the tiny path and the over grown ferns and hedging and weeds.

the kids have barely enough room to ride their bikes along it and constantly end up riding on the grass so i thought something needed doing seeing 

i haven't touched it since we moved in almost 2 years ago-eek!

i got out my secateurs and chopped back the prickly  little hedging thankfully wearing gardening gloves otherwise there may have been a lot more bad words flow out of my mouth.

to my surprise i found that our path is actually 5 pavers wide rather than the 3 or 4 i thought lol and

cut the offending plants back to the edge of the pavers

i also transplanted some spider plants from where the new vege garden will go into a space cleared under the palm after some weeding.

then i mulched up all the stuff i had cut off via a friends mulching machine 

and threw that all over this garden 

 here are the after shots...

 the jacarandah by the house got chopped down a while back but has sprouted again so gave it a nice haircut and am turning it into a bush lol

 spider plants put in-man they are so adaptable

 back garden i did today

 my not so happy helper-she wanted me to come inside and watch tv with her :<

this is where we want to put some stairs in at some stage so we can access our garden from the verandah....instead of trooping out through the laundry every time. the plan is to extend the decking out a bit more hence why nothing too flash is being done to this part of the garden and it is being allowed to go a bit ferny and bushy.

any suggestions for my garden feel free to add some

cheers ears