In December 2011, my now husband and I moved into our family home in Glendale , New South Wales.

We were lucky enough to purchase a 3 bedroom house with an elevated deck on a block of 1000 square metres. It was a dream come true, not only do I get the chance to own my new home, I get to plant the block out to how I wanted it. I am pretty lucky. The garden and land is my domain, he just mows it for me if I am feeling lazy 🙂

There was an existing Orange and Mandarin tree right up the back portion of the block behind the Willow trees. I was going to get rid of them but my dad convinced me to leave them and he hacked them back, within a year they were producing the sweetest fruit, thanks dad!

Besides the Willow trees, a nasty coral tree, an Orange, a Mandarin and a few Lilly Pillies on the side, there wasn’t much to the block out the back. which in reality was a dream come true!

The first thing was to cull the tall but slim Silky Oaks (Grevillia robusta) right up the back and a dead one in the side garden. For me, they have no room in the suburban garden and present more of an issue, so out they came, with the help of the husband (poor guy gets sucked into all my plans).

The photographs below are what the property was like when we bought it. Absolutely amazing! (except for that garden bed full of wood chip mulch 😐 )

Big backyard to play with!

View from our deck

The creek and gorgeous Willows