"One kind word can warm three winter months"

(Japanese Proverb)

Hakea francisiana 

"Joining in with favourite plant in my garden this week" from Danger Garden , although mine won't be weekly as just like with garden bloggers bloom day I am incredibly unreliable.

But any way this hakea is a little beauty, although I do wish it wasn't so shy with its flowers as they are outstanding.  It's about 3m high by 1.5m wide, extremely drought tolerant & indigenous to 

Western Australia.

The flowers are produced on old wood & so are well hidden in the branches, which of course is a winner with the birds.  I just love it as the flower suddenly appears in all its glory from avery unassuming little tree.

"Find happiness in ordinary things, and keep your sense of humour"

(Boyd K Packer)

Well, its been some time since I last posted, which is disappointing as I had wanted to post about my new garden right from the start.  But here I am, full of excuses & ready to go again!

I have a new iphone, which I have taken these two photo's with, my camera is flat & I cant find the charger, probably haven't unpacked it yet.  There is quite a few boxes still to unpack as I have completely lost interest in that job & so the charger is somewhere with my jeans, which I do need as winter has arrived!

Cotelydon macrantha (& weeds)

 Anyway I have a lot of early photo's on my camera which I do want to add to my blog, so will eventually get it all sorted & organised!

We have had a beautiful rain & all the farmers & a happy chief pilot are all getting very excited for the coming season.  We are above average rainfall in our area, which hasn't happened in a number of years & it is all looking very promising for the crops.

Grevillea grandiflora - amazing growth in first few months, planted from tube stock
 

Bloom day

This post was supposed to be for garden bloggers bloom day, but my photos wouldn't upload in time, so they are a day late.  Still taking photos with iPad, my computer is up & running now & I have Internet, but now I can't find my camera cable.  Will eventually get organised.


2 tiny flowers on my very hard pruned wedding bush 

I have three ricinocarpos pinifolius (wedding bush) in my garden so far, will be planting heaps more as they are so magnificent when in full bloom.



miniature carpet rose

I think there's about 10 of these along the back verandah hiding underneath all the old geranium growth. will dig out & pot up to replant in same spot after our retaining wall has been built.

Illyarrie, beautiful Euc.

Anyway garden still looking bare & dry, but we had 34.5mls of rain on Thursday, so I began digging in Ernest yesterday & created a new garden bed for all my aloes.

Rock heap

What a lovely photo this is (not)!

This rock heap is right where our pool is going to go (hopefully if we have a good season)

So I will need to create something out of these rocks, most likely a garden bed border, will have to wait till the tractor comes back from the hangar though as they are a little too heavey for me.

Pruning

Another stinker of a day, I have been pruning my grevillea petrophiloides over a couple of days as its such a monster, & still not finished, might have to call the chief in with chainsaw to finish off.

This grevillea is indigenous to our area, which is why it was one of the few healthy plants in the garden when we first arrived, oh & it's also planted right next to the septic!
I let the chooks out that evening & they went wild scratching around looking for insects.

Deck

I took this photo yesterday afternoon, we had a storm, unfortunately only 1ml of rain came of it, but the smells are always there, & I love to walk around the garden after a rain taking the in.

This area is full of very old rosemary & lavender bushes, I am going to take some rosemary cuttings& then pull them all out as we are going to place a small patch of lawn here.

"Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see."

(Henry David Theauro)

 How true is this quote?

Every time I do a marvellous job of pruning a shrub, I always need to ask the chief for affirmations, but he always fails to see the beauty in my skill & can only see the mess of the pruning s left behind!

41 degrees Celsius

The baked brown earth looking from the little garage

Sister hooning on motorbike!