This weekend has been perfect weather – not too cold but not too hot in the sun either. Our fruit trees have been suffering in tiny pots for far too long so we’ve finally given them a new home in the ground. They are meant to be balcony size fruit trees so it will be interesting to see how they go now that they are in the soil and have room to grow. I only hope they don’t perish now they are not root bound.
If they are anything like the frangipanis, they will do a lot better. They seem to be kicking along okay, even with the clay base soil we have. If anything, they seem to like it because their leaves have stopped dropping and they are even getting new growth. The three frangipanis should form a nice bit of screening foliage at the front of the house and although I did plan on putting mainly natives in the ground here, I do have a soft spot for the fragrance of a frangipani tree in full bloom. I saw a lovely teddy bear magnolia at the garden expo, so it has a home in my front garden too.
The plants between the two are a mixture of grevilleas and banksias, all in their juvenile state. Tomorrow I plan to add in a dwarf variety of callistemon that I got from the nursery. I’ve also got a heap of plants to put in that sandstone rockwall, mostly small bushy plants and ground covers. It may not look like much now but I’m hoping that in another six months, there will be a fair bit of progress.
After all, look how much my woollie bush has grown in six months! All I can say is it must be really happy where it is….I sure haven’t had do too much for it to grow as much as it has in such a short period of time. 
Its looking great Kay:)