The Reynoldz

Well, the nice weather is still holding here, so last weekend Anna and I got around to doing some yard work. There was much to do. The previous owners put in a lot of nice native vegetation, but that was, like, many years ago. And as we are finding out, there is no such thing as a low maintenance yard here. Anna has been working with a local gardener to figure out which stuff is weeds and which stuff isn't. We have lots of flax and agapathus. Both are "not" weeds, but they act like it. There was a lot of pruning/thinning done. Here are some pics of some of the stuff we removed. Anna and the gardener had already removed this amount much earlier. And we are still not done.











































When dealing with flax and agapathus, here are the gardening tools you need: a large axe.

I bought a 10$ shovel ("don't buy a 10$ shovel", Anna said), and broke it in about 4 minutes. Then I went and grabbed our garden fork and broke it too. (it had completely rusted at the base) - ahh life on the ocean.


Anna found a rat hole under the agapantha. Another reason we are thinning it out. I only found small cockroaches. The NZ nice kind. No weta's.


Most of this stuff can be hauled off to compost sites instead of landfill. But not flax. It biodegrades kinda like plastic biodegrades. So we had to make separate bundles of it to take to the landfill.











All in all, it was a good weekend. I only had to go into work once for 2 hours. I think the rest of the weekends should be free and clear. Here are a couple pics of the girls.