A very nice lunch today with a hanging basket demo & plants for sale.
We are buying shrubs to fill up the only flower bed we will have so I bought this one as it’s a NZ based one I was told. Evergreen too…we like evergreen!
Three good things:
1. I took a friend home & she showed us round her house & garden….
2. Harry had the wood burner on when I got home…we haven’t had it on for a while so a real treat.
3. We have postponed our second lunch out tomorrow until next week!
Sounds a lovely charity lunch - A type I would enjoy - Love your choice of shrub with its variegated foliage , and yes I also love evergreen plants in the garden - not only for the beauty of having colour all the year through but also no leaves to sweep up in the Autumn .!! Been a cold day I have the heating on too !
Sounds like fun and informative.. That little pittasporium will be great have a couple similar to this by my front gate and they do really well, get a little burnt with salt winds but clip them back and green up again..
Still no wood burner on here.
@julzmaioro Thanks for that advice Julz. It does look very delicate, the leaves do t look one bit like an evergreen should be! I might come back to you with questions one day!
Apparently there are over 200 species of pittosporum and they all have different habits. We have one or maybe two - now over 4 metres high and 2 -3 metres wide. It provides a bit of privacy from our neighbour's property. Yours, Irene Patterson' sounds lovely with 'creamy young leaves which mature to deep green marbled with white, and become flushed pink in winter.'
@maggiemae We had frost last night & it’s standing on the deck so hope it’s still ok this morning! You must get very cold too so hopefully can stand the frost. Glad to hear it grows big…just what we want!
Of course there was gin!! 🤣🤣
Sounds and looks like a lovely occasion. Your pittosporum will be good for flower arranging Pat. I put one in the church garden a few years ago and it's very useful for the floweer arrangers
Still no wood burner on here.
Any gin to go with that nice tonic?
Of course there was gin!! 🤣🤣