Can't exactly remember when but....

Can't exactly remember when but after completing the construction of this garden bed, I added some recently bought plants. All of which were mostly grevilleas. The problem was an invasion of ants at my brother's letter box and surrounding foot path. There was an ant nest nearby and the ants needed controlling and redirected back into the garden.

The ants were already eating the nectar from the largest grevillea in this garden bed, which my brother bought and transplanted to it's current location prior to any garden bed existing there. The grevillea started growing and became established, it seems with minimal watering and TLC.

I bought 3 larger plants, 2 grevilleas and one other species, and over time I also added some dwarf lavender flowers and a few other seedlings of other grevilleas. The smaller (2) grevilleas and lavender flowers I added at a later date ended up dieing. They weren't large enough to survive the heavy frosts and several days of icy cold winds and 2cm of snow back in July.

The non-grevillea plant in the middle of the garden bed.

I also began adding organic matter to the garden bed, including a small tree stump which had broken in half from rotting. I weeded the garden bed and with the 2 additional but smaller grevillea plants being added which were in flower already, the ants seemed to be happy. The ants rarely ventured away from the garden bed. 

Despite the lack of a lot of leaf litter and bark chips in the garden bed, the largest grevillea drops it's spent flowers into the garden bed creating a thin carpet of red flowers. The ants seem to enjoy walking over the tree stump and generally have found new paths to get to the grevillea flowers. They even relocated their nest because I disturbed it when adding the back sleeper to complete the garden bed. Unfortunately I also dug up a frog in that process which was not hurt.

So, initially in the beginning, this was the first garden bed I successfully created and planted out.