Hedges

Some months ago we decided to start cultivating the hedges we will put on the path towards the main entry. We were trying to decide between English boxes and Japanese boxes. At the end we decided for English boxes as these grow taller than the Japanese ones (1.5m vs 1m). We bought our first 3 in Masters, it was 2 dollars each. Next week we went to Bunnings and bought 5 more to almost 3 dollars each. At that time I saw some business selling hedges on ebay, but I wasn't sure about buy as most of them are in Victoria, no sure why there aren't any around NSW. Anyways, the other day we found some disposable pots that went thrown away, around 20. So we decided give it a go and buy some hedges in ebay. I found a business that was selling plants of 25cm for 3 dollars (but without pots, just single plants with naked roots). In Bunnings a plant of the same size is $15 each. 

At the end we bought 15 plants, so it was $45 + postage = $60 + 3 pot mix bags = a Grand Total of  $72

If we would have bought the same in Bunnings it would have been 15$ x 15 = $225 

So far, the plants seem to be perfect. The old ones have plenty of catch up to do ;-)      

CDC and work in advance :-)

Hi everyone, the news of this week was that we finally got our plans approved by CDC, together with the approval, WH sent us all the documentation required to get the Construction Loan Application (stamped plans, builder insurance, builder licenses, among others). So, last Friday we sent everything to our mortgage broker, now we move again to wait status. In the meantime we are trying to do some work in advance like growing our hedgings :-) hahaha. Well we have at least 8 months before move so we opted to buy small hedges and start looking how they develop. If it is too slow we will buy more grown ones. We bought these in Masters, they were $2 each (approx), we are planning to have edgings in the path towards the entry of the house and maybe around the house to delimit the boundaries.

In March we bought a lime dwarf tree, which for now is in a pot, we expect it to be in one corner in our backyard.

Those are all the news we have for now. Our neighbours have already locked out their home and their neighbour has already his slab drying. There is also lot of things going on in Heartwood, some of the DHA houses look already finished and some of them are getting their driveway and fences done. If everything is still the same with our process we may start when someone is already living there :-)