B's Tree Planting Project

I still haven't uploaded the pics from our trip so I can't make a post about it yet. I do not have that much luxury of time because B and I always go out during the day and comes home to get the little one from school.

B is semi-retired since his last working stint in Latvia. Semi-retired in a way that he do some consultancy work every now and then. He loves his free time the first few months out of work. He did not regret resigning from his former job. I think he got out before the world's financial economy started collapsing, that somehow affected the company he used to work for.

B enjoyed doing things in the house. He had a lot of things done here and liked exchanging stories/ideas to the men working. Now that everything is finished, B is having a hard time finding things to do. He cannot just stop and do nothing. His mind is always running a hundred miles an hour. He needs to have something to do. That boredom leads him to tree planting.

We drove around everywhere looking for his perfect plants. I was surprised that plants are quite pricey. Nurseries here are good business. The plants that we got range from AU$20 - AU$100 each. But they look good and B wanted it, so I'm not complaining.

These ones will somehow serve to be the hedge in a few years.


These 4 are his palms.


These 2 are placed near our front door.


While this is my chosen one. I liked it the first time I saw it on the nursery. It looks good in the corner where it is.

The little one lend a hand in planting some of those. I didn't get pics while they were at it because laziness took over me. B planted about 20 more plants near our retaining wall but I did not get photos of it. I just sat in our pergola watching them. I know, lazy, lazy me!

While B was planting those, he remembered that the local council is giving everyone free 8 plants once a year. All you need to do is show your recent (paid) Rates Notice and there goes your free plants. So we head down to the nearest Council Nursery and got the plants. Something for free, why not?!!!



As you can see, they have a wide variety of plants to choose from. Good, hey?!


These are the 8 plants that we got and where B placed them. He got the native bush plants. He wants that area to be the Aussie bush.

We may not be that Earth-friendly fanatic, but in our own way like this tree planting; I know we are somehow contributing something good to Mother Earth.

Gorgeously . . .