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Just a spot of landscaping for the new palms

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July 4Jul 4

Putting the new property machine to good use, a recent investment for landscaping my property an excavator. And I should have purchased it years ago. With so many new palms and exotic plants in the collection I have a lot of landscaping to do. Raised beds with good quality soil is the only way to go in my environment.

The original garden was done in this landscaping manner. Dig the whole are and remove the rocks, and use them for landscaping. Backfill with soil and plant.

Even the kookaburras have worked out that the excavator means disturbed soil and all sorts of critters to eat , iam sure I have a few exotic palms to fill this section up with!

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July 4Jul 4

You obviously know what you’re doing with that apparatus. Navigating the area with that density of growth could be tricky . Love the last pic with the onlooker! Harry

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July 4Jul 4

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9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:
You obviously know what you’re doing with that apparatus. Navigating the area with that density of growth could be tricky . Love the last pic with the onlooker! Harry

Never get complacent on machinery, always think. If you feel the little toosh lifting of the seat you know then it’s time to think fast. It’s such a fun machine to use you would never grow up if you had one of these to muck around on. My only regret is I should purchased one when first got my property. The kookaburras are so clever they see the machine and go yep dinner time.

I have some big plans for this area for a tropical garden, and the best bit is I have the tropicals for such an area.

Richard

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8 hours ago8 hr

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The final touches has been completed for the new palm garden, now the big decision what gets planted, I have a nice big itaya amoricorum that will go in there. But after that small dypsis varieties perhaps, I really don’t know I have that many varieties all wanting that special place, whatever goes in they will the top of the collection range. But it’s amazing what you can do with the right machine!

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4 hours ago4 hr

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There’s always the before picture laying around somewhere, dug that bamboo out and the dioon spinolosums. Before it was a rocky tough place you were doing well if you could dig a planting hole, that’s why I originally planted the dioon nothing else would live there. So dry and barren part of the garden that had been like it the entire gardens life right from the beginning, amazing what time does, and what a bit labour can do some 27 years later I finally got around to doing something about that part of the garden!