It was a dull, cool and windy day today: a return to winter, and not really the best sort of weather for taking garden photos. Flowers were tossing uncooperatively in the breeze and the sun was obscuring itself behind banks of grey, but unfortunately not rain-bearing, clouds. However, I found six photos as I’m joining…
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The Rush to Flower: September 14, 2019
After a week of cold winds and low temperature (a return to Winter really), Spring is back with us today, and the warm weather is hastening plants into bud, leaf and flower. Without further ado, here are this week’s six. One: Iris hollandia (above) is relishing the warm days and its cerulean petals echo the…
SoS: September 1: Still frosty.
Today is considered to be the first day of Spring in Australia, although technically speaking, real Spring doesn’t begin until the equinox on 23rd September. It seems, however, that Winter hasn’t quite finished with us yet here, in the Central Tablelands of NSW. We’ve had some rain, a good amount for us, and a cold…
Something Stirred. SoS August 4
Winter is not over yet. Although the days are becoming noticeably longer, it’s still very chilly overnight, and I know from experience that it’s quite possible for us to be faced with frost well into September before we can say for sure that the cold weather has finished for this year. A large percentage of…
Six on Saturday, 2 June: Winter is here
Winter has arrived! During the week we had some longed-for rain and on that day, the top temperature was only 13 degrees. Let’s not become over-excited though, the rain gauge measured only 14 ml, but we were very grateful. Nothing refreshes the garden like the water that comes from the sky, and the recent rainfall…