A little home maintenence

Have been very slowly getting the garden into shape. There is a little bit of bush at the back with a few nice blackbutt trees and a few manky wattles, which was infested with camphor laurel, loquat, privet, cassia, cotoneaster, Ochna serrulata and oleander and many other weeds particularly small groundcovers, grasses and vines. I have mostly got on top of the weeds now but it was a spectacular collection. I have also finally put in a few garden beds and a compost heap that took an embarrassingly long time to build.



There was also a hideous large gymnosperm outside the front of the house which while it provided a nice screen of the neighbours house was very large and for some reason I had always hated it. Mostly because it was not native and did not provide overly good habitat for the local fauna. Anyway after 4 days of sawing with my little handsaw I have finally managed to reduce it to a rather large stump.





The hard part was getting it to fall in the right direction as I did not want to squish the neighbours house. The top was easy enough as you could cut sections of the many trunks down and push them in the right direction as long as they were small enough. However it got considerably harder closer to the ground.


Finally mostly gone.