Summer, 2012

Its nearly the end of summer, and I am amazed that I still have a Columbine in flower, also a Magnolia is just starting to flower. Of course, this weekend we are expecting to get 35 degrees, so it may just kill the blooms, dry out the sand - yes, its beach sand pretty much. But the upside is that I have a little Potoroo in the garden. It is a marsupial, like a big rat with a long snout. How gorgeous is that? The downside is that he digs little holes all over the garden, so you have to watch that you don't trip and sprain your ankle!!

We also have just 2 tomato plants, given to my by a friend, but I think one of them must be that Russian Giant one, that each tomato is the size of a hand! S0 check these photos out. Others I took today or recently, including the little Potoroo.

More flowers in spring

1 & 2:Looking down the garden from the deck.

3: Looking up towards the front along the side of the house, with diosma, pelagonium and grassy plants are my Native Grass tree (Black Boy or Xanthoria), and a native orchid.

4: Californian Poppy.

5: Foxglove.

6: Statue amongst white ground cover.

7: My lilac that has flowered for the first time since I planted the runner 8 years ago, brought from Sheffield.

8: Rock Rose. They grow well as they don't get eaten by Wallabies!

Buddha on the deck

Buddha, a bowl of crystals and rose quartz, with flowering, sweet smelling native orchids or irises, on my deck.

Cottage garden by the beach

Foxglove, succulent ground cover, rock rose (with next door's house in background) Irises, border along the side of the house, white flowered Melaleuca's and Bottle brushes in flower.







Another view of my cottage garden corner.

Spring at Primrose Sands - October/November

Photo taken today, below the water tanks, where my garden is now looking like a cottage garden. At last!! Californian poppies, pale pink and white columbines, rock rose, foxglove, grasses, and cannas in the foreground.

Back garden plants.

This is the view from my back door downstairs. There is the rain water tank, and shed on the right, and I have 2 grassy pathways leading down to the bottom of garden. In the distance you can just see the dried up lagoon, and the marshes of the river on the left.