It’s been an amazing day again – very spring like.  After being couped up in Domestic Executive HQ all morning telephone coaching I reckoned I decided to forget the ironing (it doesn’t take much) and head out to the garden to plant up the remaining native trees.

The recent winds and rain has increased the impetus to get all the remaining trees into the ground.  Not only was it not doing them any good left out without and real protection it has become tedious every day to go and pick them up from where they’ve been blown over. 

After a final few bits of gorse harvesting to clear the part of the land where the trees are to go, the bassets and I had a few hours of hard digging, filling and watering.  In all we planted 20 natives – silver ferns, fern trees and some more cordylines.

When you look at the finished effort it doesn’t look much – but it will in time.  I’m just pleased to finally get them all in the ground.  Now all I need to do is finish burning my gorse mountain and harvest the remaining acres of gorse.  I can’t tell you how good it will be to rid us of the brown bushes and get something closer to the green a garden should be.

Beginners mistake though – no sun cream.  Boy do you have to be careful here in the southern hemisphere, even on a winter’s day when the sun is shining it can have it’s harmful effects.  The good thing though is it will have done wonders for the solar.  Anything that can reduce the power bills is a good thing – oh yes, good for the planet too!