Back in the garden.......

.....we have grasshoppers!  Little ones, big ones, massive ones, green ones, brown ones, you get the picture.  And they are all hungry ones - but I've got 'em beat now!

Net food covers - to keep the bugs off at al fresco meals for people, not grasshoppers.

This little pineapple is in my neighbour's garden.  Although we live in a pineapple growing area I haven't ever noticed  them starting off like this.  It's probably a bit hard to see them as you're driving past the farms at 80kph!

It's as cute as a button isn't it?  The fruit is about 2" high without the crown.
A few miles down the road and at the other end of the scale is this Big Pineapple which is 52' high.

It has been a local tourist attraction since 1971.  If you want to know more you can read about it here and here.

Dave came back!

You remember Dave, don't you?  The landscaper guy!
Well, he got back here (as we knew he would) and finished what he started a couple of weeks ago.  Now I'm really happy!

He had to build this little rock border at the front.  You can see how the big shrubs jutted all over the verge and when they came down we realised we needed a bit more edging there.
(Sorry about the photo being taken through the car window, but I was in a bit of a hurry)

And here's a couple more pics that I didn't show you last time.

Note the very expensive biodegradable pot plants here!



And I really ought to get a more decorative rain gauge!

I'm looking forward to having fresh herbs from my own garden again though.  I've missed that!

A gardener I am not........

......but I might be inspired to turn into one now that the landscaper, Dave, has been in and done all the hard work.

He's magically turned this............................into this, which eventually will be a sea of agapanthus.

And this.....................into this,which already looks pretty nice because of the colour in the bromeliads.

I have this image of myself with a wide brimmed straw hat on, and pretty gloves and snips totting around cutting flowers into a basket - except that I didn't actually have him plant any flowers!

There's still some more work to be done, but Dave seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth for the time being -  I suppose he'll be back when he wants some money!