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…
Tag: Narcissus
The sap is rising… August 31, 2019
The weeks are hurtling by with the swiftness of an arrow from a bow, it seems. No sooner has one weekend finished than another looms. Spring is upon us here in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. Each day more leaves and blossoms appear: growing things are doing what they do in the predestined…
Noble Narcissi: SoS, September 16
For weeks I wondered where all the snails disappeared to. During Winter, with the small amounts of rain we had, I sometimes went out into the garden to find snails, and to my surprise, they mostly eluded me despite searches under and around their favourite hiding places. However, one night last week, with warmer temperatures…
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…