Actual Temperature
16 degrees Celsius
Humidity : 74%
Rainfall : 0.00mm
Wind : Light Wind
Today my bedding preparation and planting was with Lisa Burton and Curator Stephen Bishop in Lower Botanical Garden at 8.00 am. Firstly we remove all the old plants on two beds such as tulip, pansy and Uncinia rubra grass. We remove all the bulbs separately and other plants before planting new bedding. We removed all unwanted weeds, turning the soil using spade and raking to smooth the surface of the soil.
After lunch break, we make measure the soil and planted evenly the seedling of Ageratum aloha blue. Blue as the summer sky and just about as endless, this free-flowering, long-blooming Floss Flower is a gift for the summer garden. Just 5 to 6 inches high and 3 to 4 inches wide, it offers big clusters of bright azure blooms among dark green foliage. Just the right size for containers, it also makes a splendid edging or front-of-the-border showoff.
Followed by Dianthus carpet snow seedlings. Snow-in-summer is a double whammy plant -- it covers itself with striking white flowers but it also has striking silvery foliage. It looks completely at home in the hot, dry, sunny locations it loves -- next to sidewalks, between pavers, in rock gardens, along the edge of retaining walls, and tucked into the cracks of stacked stone walls. In fact, if the soil is too wet too long, root rot is likely to set in. Where it's happy, snow-in-summer will slowly spread, creating a carpet of white blooms that cover the plant in spring to early summer.
We end up the section at 2.30pm by placing the tools by cleaning and tidying the area.
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