Hello, what a cold and blustery weekend it is here. It's currently sitting on 9 degrees Celsius at lunch time. Too cold to be out in the garden so the following photos are ones I took a few days ago. This post isn't really much of anything but more just because I want to keep up the habit of posting regularly. Yesterday we received 15mm of rain which the garden enjoyed and a bit more for the rainwater tanks.
Last week we had a couple of very cold nights down to -2 and the frost has burnt all the green shoots on the mulberry tree.
The mandarins are nice, but the poor tree is under attack from sooty mould. I have been trying to get rid of it for quite some time now but don't seem to be having much success.
The Casuarina or she-oak trees indigenous to this area from a distance all look like they are dying.
It's only when you get up close, you realise what looks brown and dead from a distance is actually
the trees covered in pollen.
Close-up of the Casuarina pollen ............ ah-choo!
Obviously taken a few days ago when we had blue skies
nothing but grey skies this weekend.
Back at the very start of winter I planted three Silver Birch trees.
Looking forward to seeing them covered in their summer green leaves, then changing
into a soft buttery yellow in Autumn before becoming skeletons again in the winter with
their silvery white trunks.
I've never really been a big fan of succulents but a few of them are growing on me.
This one in particular 'Jellybean' is a cute little plant.
I don't know the name of this native plant, it was a cutting from Mum's garden
and it has tiny little white flowers in spring and summer.
It seems to like this spot quite well and does a good job of softening up the tin wall behind it.
Shorty my parents dog has gone home about an hour ago. Mum and Dad have arrived back home to the freezing cold after their holiday overseas in the heat and humidity. I was planning on cooking a roast dinner tonight for them thinking they would enjoy a home cooked meal after being away for a couple of weeks, but they have both come home with food poisoning. We will still have our roast tonight as it will be the first one in ages that eldest teen will be home to sit down at the table and eat with us, as she is generally working a double shift on a Sunday. Hopefully Mum and Dad will be over it soon enough and I will cook dinner for them and we can go through the photos of their latest trip. :)
Be careful of those succulents, they have a way of sneaking into your life and before you know it you have quite a collection of them. Such a shame your parents' holiday was spoilt by food poisoning, I hope they are feeling better soon
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