Long awaited weeding done today

Finally done some catch up gardening today, spending about 4-5 hours out in the garden and planted 8 more plants into the garden and weeded. Nearly all that time was spent just weeding the outside of the garden beds. Only one third of the entire properties' garden has been weeded (and has a half decent garden). And then I had to water the 3 garden beds.

As I was weeding and planting several birds came to investigate my gardening activity. A Pied Currawong flew in several feet from me and landed on the fence then flew to my bin and just watched me; a minute later it took off. A pair of Red Wattlebirds? flew in and perched on the power line going to the flats and looked at what I was doing; chirped a lot then flew away. Australian Magpies hung around me and went through the weeded area looking for bugs and found lots of them. Birds of many different species always take an interest in what I'm doing when gardening, as if they approve of or are excited about what I'm doing, especially if I'm planting plants in the ground.

I am only disappointed about one thing: I lost a Coral Creeper to slugs. I have another one so it's not a complete waste/loss and that one hasn't been munched on by anything.

Being undecided about what to plant where today I just randomly selected plants and put them in the ground, including my dwarf Daylily that I had in a pot and a Cabbage Palm. I think I'm going for a random look for the garden. Just throwing plants in here and there but planting the trees in the centre of the beds. Once I've got my coleus seeds germinated and they're big enough they are going into the garden as well, for a splash of leaf colour. I'll keep some of the coleus plants in pots to spread the colour around the garden.

Yesterday, on my way home from town, I saw an ivy plant in someone's garden that was hanging a foot next to the footpath so I grabbed a small end piece of the plant. I plan on getting ivy to grow in the garden too. I also saw another groundcover which I liked so I grabbed a piece of that too.

I plan on planting a lot of different plant species in the garden so I'll always have something different to look at. It will be interesting to see everything in flower. I plan on getting some of the weeds to germinate and grow in the garden too as I noticed the native bees were hanging around the flowers of one specific weed. I pulled those weeds up regardless of the bees.

Pretty soon the garden will start growing and will be a mass of flowers to attract the bees.