After the big garden clean out of a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to follow up on it soonish to make the most of the empty beds ... before the weeds could move into those nice fresh garden beds.

When I saw the offer of some Agapanthus on Free-cycle on thursday night, I replied straight away and offered to collect first thing on Friday morning.  Yipee! They were mine to collect Friday. Two big garbage bags of Agas came home with me.

The catch of course is that they need to get into the dirt ... and soon.

First thing Saturday morning, Hubster was out the front garden with the spade.

 He hates having his pic taken but tolerates it for me. 

 Done. 

Note the dog, he looks cute and normally leaves plants alone...

but when it is full of fresh lovely smelly earth with lots of compost...

it is just irresistible for a dog.

While hubs was working in the front garden I potted three of the Agapanthus into these blue pots.

Shortly later I came back to take some photos and found the scene above.

I called buddy and pointed to it saying "Did you do this?" and he stopped wagging and hung his head. 

Guilt confirmed.

Plants replanted. I hope they survive.

A trip to the nursery followed in order to buy more potting mix and some larger pots to finish the job we had started. Note the three big white pots in the left of the pic below.

 See the plants above... my little confession is that I bought potting mix for them to be repotted over two years ago. They were all soooo pot bound but now all have new homes.

 The smaller Pony-Tale Palm is now in a 43cm pot (was in a 30cm pot)

 This palm was in one of the blue planters (really truly it was). It now has a 43cm home.

Here is the large Pony-Tale Palm in its new 55cm pot. Man that thing is huge.

sweet little baby Jade Plant

 Big Mama Jade Plant (or money tree as it is sometimes called) in its new washing tub planter. 

Yep there are several big old metal washing machine tubs turned planters down the side of our house. They mostly housed weeds... I am fixing that.

 Another transplanted succulent.

 See the terracotta planter on the tank stand? That is where the Jade plant used to call home. 

I don't know the name of the plant the I have put in it. It used to be in one of the blue ceramic planters. I gave it a serious trim and it is looking a bit sad here, I expect it will look better in a week or so.

This tub planter already was home to the sad little tree. It now has a shade loving Lavender for company.

All of this gardening has been a bit hard on my nails (even with gloves).

My thumb nail isn't the only casualty... my back is really sore. Sunday afternoon I could barely stand up, Monday the pain kept me slow and keeping track of pain medication. let's hope it improves more today.