Now it’s Spring everything is taking off in the garden. When I planted it last year I chose a mainly purple, yellow and white flowering scheme. The long-purple flags went in after they would have flowered so this is the first time I’ve been able to enjoy their flowering. They tend to flower in one hit and they are winding down now. They are so bright and cheery when they do flower and go well with the yellow flowers. They open up in the morning and close again in the afternoon. I caught this one peaking out between the neighbouring everlasting daisy which has not stopped flowering all year. The…

I pottered around the garden today and marvelled at how much more pleasant it is to garden in mild weather. Even though it is still officially winter here we are having a spring weather day so at least for today I didn’t come back into the house with freezing hands. I even had lunch outside which was a treat. The garden is looking reasonably good. I finished my tidying after our holidays and because it has been fairly cold it has remained mainly weed-free and neat. Unfortunately, our dog has been digging and dug a big hole in the corner behind the tree below. I’ve replanted the plants he dug…

The garden continues to grow well. Some of the lilly pillys are only about 30cm off the top of the fence. The pond area, which was partially dug up by our dog this month, looks to be surviving. The plants that I had to dig out of the pile of dirt survived, and it looks like the lilly pilly at the centre of the disaster area is going to survive too. In the other major section of the garden, my veggie beds are fully planted and ready to mulch now that the peas have sprouted. The kangaroo paws are also doing very well with multiple new flowers popping up in…