With spring arriving next month the Grevillea are approaching their peak flowering period and the combination of yellow flowers and blue sky is a match to take my breath away.
These “shabby-chic” chairs are a patch of blue as though dropped down from the above sky into my favourite corner. Were I can sit with Buddha by my side, maybe with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and contemplate what I am going to do next in the garden.
Here is an update…
Remember in June when Jack did a major prune of the paperbark tree? I wondered if it would survive.Well, 6 weeks later, look carefully at it now…I’m joining the Len’s Artist Photography Challenge
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Your garden is beautiful. I have Grevilla growing outside my kitchen window here in Brisbane. I often just stand at the bench and watch the birds feeding, they are so lovely.
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The birds do love grevillea. What birds do you get visiting? It’s mainly noisy miners around. We are almost neighbours…
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Mainly Rainbow Lorikett and another smaller bird that I haven’t yet been able to identify. Yes we are almost neighbours 🙂
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If it has yellow rings around it’s eyes it will be a noisy miner, they are very aggressive and in my garden they have chased all the other birds away, unfortunately. Used to have all the pretty natives before they turned up
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I googled to see what noisy miners look like……and yes that is what they might be but they have not been noisy.
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They are very aggressive towards other birds, they gang up and dive bomb even crows and kookaburras. Because they are a native nothing can be done to get rid of them. We used to have lots of rainbow lorikeets and others but they do not come now
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It took SIX weeks for . . . that?! I think they grow better here, even in winter. Well, at least it will ‘eventually’ recover.
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Oh you make me smile Tony. Remember it is winter (at least in name!!!) and at the moment very dry so I’m happy to see even those tiny shoots. Now it is started I think it will race away, especially if we get some rain soon….
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You know, I can imagine winters that are much colder than ours. I can imagine summers that are warmer and humid. Yet, I can not imagine a dry winter. We get rain only in winter. We do not get much, but it is within the few winter months.
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We are the opposite dry winters, hot wet summers. That of course is how it used to be, now it cannot always be predicted…
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Yuck! Wet summers! When it rains just once or twice in summer in Los Angles, it smells like tar and steam. I suppose it would get washed off a bit if it rained all summer. If it rains in summer in San Jose, it dries within an hour or so.
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Woohoo!! Paperbark recovery 😀
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I was so pleased to spot those tiny shoots
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These are lovely. The grevillea against the blue sky is really pretty. I like the distance shot of your garden. You certainly have created a lush environment in such a small space.
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Thanks Suzanne. I love my small patch and grevillea are one of my favourites so many varieties
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You seem to have a knack for growing them well. They often getting ‘leggy’ and don’t flower so well.
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I do prune them regularly
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Your lovely garden – and those blue chairs look so charming in the corner. I could easily relax there.
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Would love to have you relax there with me Leya
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Love your wabi-sabi chairs!
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Love that phrase, Jack uses it regularly
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😀😀😀
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That Paperbark is on the way. It must be a relief in any case.
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It will grow quickly now it has started, especially if we get some rain
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A lovely spot of blue over your amazing garden Pauline. And hurrah for the sprouts 👍👍👍
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Skies are that blue day after day, no clouds and no rain in sight. Very bad droughts inland for the farmers at the moment
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Been raining here for days. Somehow Mother Nature is feeling confused!
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She certainly is, we’ve had hottest day time winter temperatures on record. Dread to think what summer will bring
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I could see sitting in those blue chairs with coffee or wine and contemplating life. Your garden is truly amazing. 🙂
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Thanks Cathy, it would be nice to have my blogging friends sitting in the other chair….
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That would be very nice indeed!
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Not all of us at the same time I hope? We need a bench Pauline!
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Got plenty of other seats around the garden. Wouldn’t it be a great get together….
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It would be fantastic. We’d be like a flock of chattering birds.
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🤗😄👍
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Nice chairs! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Found them at the tip shop for next to nothing.
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Hooray for the paperbark and hey I’ve got chairs like that!
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The paperbark is one tough Aussie survivor
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It’s no good, I have to get over there to see your lovely garden.
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The welcome mat is always out. Even a bed here if needed…
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I might take you up on that 🙂
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That would be great
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A lovely place and photos of course.
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Thank you for the comment
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What a beautiful garden. Those chairs are so inviting!
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They were a real bargain too as we found them at the rubbish tip shop
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Love your blues, Pauline. Glad the weather is fine!
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Nature always finds its own way to regenerate … Happy new growth is now springing forth.
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We had some rain last night, the first for weeks. This morning the garden looked so fresh. I had been watering almost every day so I hope we get more today that they said would come.
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Here’s to rain.. Its raining here too today 🙂 Big SMILES. 🙂
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Sun back today and garden is sparkling
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Fabulous 🙂
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