Daffodils and Gazania ground cover

Well, we didn't win Tattslotto so it looks as if we will have to do without our two-storey garage/greenhouse.

In any case, there will be changes in the garden. The big windstorm reminded me of the danger of the gum tree near the house. The tree will have to be removed - with regret, because the birds and possums will miss it.

In the space vacated by the gum tree I intend to plant two or three wattles of a sort that do not grow tall ... Acacia podalyrifolia if I can get it in Tasmania. I love its round silvery leaves.

While digging an extension to the bulb garden I discovered an old concrete footpath buried under a layer of three inches of topsoil. No wonder the grass never grew well there! I'm not up to the job of removing the concrete (as the previous owners weren't) and more topsoil is not an option, so I am thinking of other choices. I would prefer a ground cover plant so I want to try Gazania rigens var. leucolaena over the buried concrete.

This gazania is tough and drought tolerant. I hope it will be able to cover that difficult spot where grass can't grow. If it is successful, then I will extend the area that it covers into the bulb garden. In time it can form a silvery carpet out of which the naturalised daffodils, narcissus, freesia, white nerine and zephyranthes appear in their season.

I bought a bag of twenty daffodil bulbs to start the new extension to the bulb garden. They are simply described as "yellow" so I expect they are the typical golden-trumpeted daffodil. Today I will finish digging the ground, plant the daffs and add some cuttings of the silver leafed gazania. I'm looking forward to spring.