Hello, bobblypop welcome to the coven band of green-fingered MNers.
ANZAC today, so a holiday and a cold start but now at 3.30. it's a lovely 20. Today was tidying up and getting things out of pots and into the ground, in this case a bottle tree and some kangaroo paws. The bottle tree had spent few years in a pot and as I moved it, yes, the tap root had snuck through drainage hole and burrowed into the soil. They are tough as old boots - even the huge 8 metre ones can be dug out with a Bobcat, put on a lorry and taken elsewhere, so I snapped it off and dug it in.
More delicate was rearranging a 3 metre-high cactus that had grown under a frame for bougainvillaea so DH was up a long ladder and battling with the thorns from each plant to free the wretched cactus. :o I say it's wretched because although impressively big, it never flowers.
A smaller, very spiny cactus had fallen over, being too fat and heavy, so much bubble wrap needed to lift it prior to planning it in a pot for a while. Now this IS a flowering one. I'll see if I can put up a photo.
The final tidy up was digging up all the cannas: they simply don't flower in the scalding sun, and nowhere is properly shady in the garden.
Still, more room for plants that can take it. 