Camellias

Lovelight

Debutante

Debbie

Yuletide

Choo Choo San

It is a lovely bright Winter's day here and all the Camellias have been very colourful this year. Unfortunately I am not sure of all their names.

In The Garden

Frangipani Success!

 

 I have had this Frangipani for a few years and it was flowering when I bought it, but no flowers since. So I gave it some potash in the Spring and I have been watching it over the past weeks come into bloom.

"When Acorns Fall"

 I have been trying to collect a few acorns to grow, but the rats and the possums have been eating them. So I have made some net bags and tied them over acorns on the lower branches and and I have a few saved now. Our Oaktrees are mostly evergreen and never lose all their leaves at once. We also have some Pinoaks and their acorns are very small and difficult to find.                                                                                                        

 The tiny acorns at the front are from the Pinoaks.   

    Evergreen Oak  

     

In The Garden

"Wedding Day"

"Wedding Day"

"Cecile"

"Elina"

"Apricot Nectar"

In The Garden

In The Garden.

Copper Beech

Crepescule

Buff Beauty

Crab Apple

"For every Bird a Nest"

We have a large garden with an abundance of places for the birds to nest, so why has this one built in Tom's farm coat that is hanging up on the back porch not two metres from the back door? Nique discovered it on the weekend and tells me there are three eggs in it. I haven't been brave enough to look too closely because an angry little bird flys out and chatters very crossly at me if I get too close.

"For every Bird a Nest"  is by Emily Dickinson.

In the Garden

An Unexpected Visitor!

A Lost Racing Pigeon

I was heading outside to peg out the washing this morning and this little chap [or lady] was on the back porch. I dashed in to get the camera and it nearly came in the back door. It is very plump and healthy looking and so quiet I hope a fox doesn't get him. I can only ever remember seeing one other lost racing pigeon here before and I hope it finds it's way home again.

In the Garden

Ceonothus

Bay Tree

Happy Bee

In The Garden

Tree Peony

 

 

 

In the Garden it is all Bulbs, Blossom and Blooms and I have been on the mower.

In The Garden

Daffodil Ice Follies

Forget Me Not

Magnolia