Echidna, Possum and Kookaburra

These two Noisy Miner birds had got soaked in the rain, and they were sitting on the back of a chair on the deck, looking in the window!!

The possum was on the deck at night, and when Joey ran out, he ran up the flag pole!!

These were taken a little while ago, but is some of the wildlife that comes in to the garden! Tony had to remove the Echidna, wearing thick gloves of course, as Joey was barking at it and so it was burying itself lower into the sand!

The Kookaburra came to be hand fed bits of meat. Sitting on our deck. He would wait in the tree for us at feed time. Then one day he just never came back.

foxgloves and iris

The front garden again, with a white Hebe, foxgloves, columbines and Iris'.

Buddha sitting under my Kangaroo Paws.

Kangaroo Paw

A yellow Kangaroo Paw. Not sure if I have already uploaded this one! Ho hum.

Iris, Rock Rose and Columbines

Another coloured Iris, with a Weeping Broom behind it.

"Black Boy" or Xanthoria

Native Grass tree is what it is usually called and this is my most special plant in the garden! It is a West Australian plant, although grows all over Australia, and this one, the spiky grassy plant in foreground, I grew from seed in Sheffield and then I transplanted it, which they don't like at all! I am hanging out for it to grow that trunk that the green tuft then sits on!

Next to it is a native iris, which isn't in flower, and the Pelagoniums in the background, also my Affirmation flags!!

Deep purple iris

Yum, another coloured Iris! The other view has a Pink Rock Rose behind it.

Californian Poppies and Pelargoniums

I just love the way these wonderful orange flowers spread all over the sloping garden.

The Pelargoniums are up the side of the house where it gets quite hot - see the weeping broom in the background?

Purple Penstamen

Isn't this just the most wonderful thing? A purple Penstemen, however you spell it!!

Falcon Street, Primrose Sands

A view of part of my front garden, with this wonderful yellow iris flowering as it has never before. Originally I brought it with me from Sheffield 7 years ago, and just had one flower at a time every year on it, but this year - boom! Plus little Columbines in front.

Bottlebrush

A lime coloured Bottlebrush just flowering in my back garden.

Kangaroo Paw

I just love Kangaroo Paws. This is a yellow one, have several in red shades also.

Iris and Buddha

Another little corner of my garden with Buddha peeping out!

Yesterday on the beach there were 4 dolphins lazily gliding up and down the bay, and today a little Echidna waddled across the road.

A yellow iris with the Geraldton Wax behind it.

Rock Rose and Iris

This is the first time this Iris has flowered - isn't it gorgeous? My Rock Rose bushes do really well here in the sand.

Carlton River

Standing on my back deck, you look to the right to see the beach and to the left to see the Carlton River. It is a wonderful view all round, with a lagoon in between them.

Today I saw 2 black swans and some little cygnets on the lagoon, and then further along, at a park there was an echidna wobbling along.

This really should be Paradise Beach.

Banksia tree

This is one of two Banksia trees in the front garden, amongst all the other bushes, and one 'flower' on it. I am hoping that the Black Cockatoos will come to it soon, as they like Banksias, and I just love Black Cockatoos.

Tea Tree and Grevillia

This is along the front garden fence still, with tea tree, grown from seed, grevillia, and somewhere in the middle there is a lavender!

Front garden

Looking along from the Weeping Broom to the Gum tree (Eucalyptus), along the front fence.

Weeping Broom

This weeping broom is amazing this year, drooping over the drive and gate. Under it is a pink Diosma, with a gum tree and daisy bush beside it.

Columbines

Columbines, or Aquiligias or Granny's Bonnets, in pale pink, only just flowering, beside a Kangaroo Paw.

Geraldton Wax from W.A.

This is an amazing Geraldton Wax bush,has grouwn huge, and is a West Australian plant. There is a little hover fly on one of the blooms!

I have mostly native Australian plants in my garden, and growing more and more grasses as well, that thrive with neglect!

I have quite a lot of different kangaroo paws, which I will photograph when they flower, also I have grown from seed a 'black boy', now called Native Grass Tree, or a xanthoria. I am very proud of that one, but it is still quite small.

Overflowing back garden

Looking up towards my back door, is a lot of ground cover plants and daisies. The red toadstool is not a real one!!

Rock Rose

This is a spreading bush called a Rock Rose.

It seems to do well in my beach sand garden, and is one plant that also doesn't get eaten by wallabies and possums!! And doesn't need too much watering, as we are on rain water tanks so have to be careful with our water.

Californian Poppy

This is a Californian Poppy which has just started to flower, and of course it has seeded all over the garden. Which is good as it can spread down the slopes, as we are on quite a hilly block of land on an area called Carlton Bluff.

Iris and lavender

One of my Iris' has just come out in flower, and the bees are buzzing around my lavender bush. Behind them are some bottlebrush bushes, just coming in to bud.

Oh, what a beautiful morning it is.

Primrose Sands garden

Primrose Sands beach from the deck at the back of my house. Primrose Sands is 40 minutes drive from capital city in Tasmania, Hobart.

It is spring time at the moment, yet only a couple of days ago we had snow falling on the mountain above the city. But today it is sunny and warm, so I decided to take some photos of the plants in flower in the garden.