I mentioned yesterday how I love going over to her place to take photos of her garden. I surprised her at Christmas by presenting her with a calendar called Trudi’s Garden but I don’t think it was till she got to the March photo that it dawned her that it was truly her garden. The…
Category: Flora
In Trudi's garden
Our neighbour Trudi has a garden filled with Salvia, of almost every imaginable colour. She’s with the Salvia Society and co-writes their newsletter. I love going over to her garden early mornings to see what birdlife is there and also to take photos of her various plants when they’re in flower – there are much…
Agapanthus
With the arrival of summer (by name but not by nature here in Melbourne at the moment) the Agapanthus have begun flowering. Considered a weed by many, they are quite prolific here in the Ranges and add extra colour to all the greenery.
Feijoa in flower
Well, we’ve come full circle and been in our home now over 12 months. I don’t know when this happened. I didn’t notice last week that flowers were forming but here they are, fully formed on our Feijoa tree. It produces an interesting fruit but it will be a couple of months at least before…
Miniscule Red Mushrooms
We’ve had a lot of rain this year, not just through Winter but also Spring. In fact, it’s the wettest it’s been since 1992, which was our first year in Melbourne. We’d wondered what we’d done, shifting to such a wet state. We weren’t to know Melbourne was about to suffer a drought, a long-lived…