This is the garden I made recently from an overgrown patch that needed work. First I constructed a rock edging, then filled the bed, dug a hole into the clay and sunk the post. The pot was made from a piece of scrap corrugated iron I found. It took about half a day to get it (the pot) in the right shape and looking okay.

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After waiting a week or so for the rain to let up I gave up and spent a rainy day trudging around in the mud finishing the job. First I secured the pot where I wanted it, then I sunk a stake diagonally so I could hang chicken wire from it to create a trellis for the climbing mandevillia I put in. Then went about arranging the plants where I wanted them and planting them. I put a stake and chicken wire fence around the edges of the garden to ward off the bush turkeys. Then I put chicken wire around the post for the star jasmine I planted at the back of the garden to climb up.

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And here’s the finished product. It’s actually a month or so since I did all this, so I’ll have to get some new pictures up. Everything but a few blue fescue grasses have survived the torrential drenching we’ve had for the last few months. There’s been a little bit more sun lately, so some of the plants have come along more since. I guess I’ll do another update soon and explain what plants are where and how they’re going.

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