Fast forward to New Year’s Day – January 1, 2014. The Snook had sanded and re-oiled our old table and chairs, and we got a fun new red umbrella for it. You can also see how much the creeping fig has grown behind the camellias. It’s nearly halfway up the wall!

A closer view of the camellias and creeping fig.

Here’s a view along the sunny bit towards the Japanese maple in the corner. You can see where the Snook planted out a small patch of violets in the empty spot, along with a few strawberry plants.

The bougainvillea was growing quite vigorously too.

The lime tree had its first baby lime on it!

The Meyer lemon seemed to be growing a bit more slowly though.

The Snook decided to grow some baby beetroot in a planter. It worked pretty well!

At the bottom of the back steps next to the clothesline, the Snook planted a grapevine in a big pot and strung up some wires for it to climb. He also put his laurel (bay) tree there.

In front of the stairs is a very tiny lemon tree (basically our old potted lemon tree cut back to just the root stock) along with planters full of herbs.

Along the other wall, we put a potted tomato and a storage box that has the outdoor cushions.

We even managed to get some tomatoes, though not as many as I would’ve liked. (We suspect some nutrient deficiency in that potting soil, as the plants got really tall and then turned yellow and withered.)

And finally, down the front of the house I got my shed! Well, not really a shed. It turns out that Chippendale is a heritage listed area so it’s a pain in the ass to get permission to put up any structure that you can see from the street. So instead I convinced the Snook to get a Bike Box. It came flat-packed and we put it together ourselves. Now we can lock our bikes up outside and keep them safe from the weather!

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