What's Growing In Kathy's Backyard

What's Growing in My Backyard

We have an interesting backyard because our house is in the Port Hills, so there are lots of steps and terraces where lots of different plants grow. Being at home has been a bit of a blessing as we have been able to tidy up a bit and put lots of tired plants into the compost.

My favourite two plants just randomly appeared quite a few years ago. One is a Rosemary plant which just started growing out of a crack in a concrete wall. The other is an alpine strawberry plant which planted itself in a path. Every year it produces the most delicious little strawberries.

As you go up the steps, there are a couple of grapevines, a fig tree and two apple trees, though they are looking a bit naked just now.

Then as you get up to the top part of the section there are lots of trees that produce fruit- a pear tree, a grapefruit tree, two feijoa trees, a peach tree and two lemon trees. There is also a really large almond tree, which drops loads of almonds everywhere- but they are almost impossible to use, as the shell is rock hard.

And this is all that is left in our veggie garden, a couple of lonely beetroot plants. My weekend job is to buy spinach and silverbeet plants to keep them company.