Gifts Galore From The Garden And More

Spring has really kicked into motion, one of the upshots being that our garden presents us with a new gift nearly every day.

Our garden is providing us with a series of new flowers one after another.

Hardenbergias have been giving me great delight for a few weeks now, particularly because I grew all of our four thriving plants from seeds I brought back from Australia.

But our biggest surprise this year has come from the white paperbark teatree, which we picked up in a bargain basement bin at our local home center and have now been rewarded with a delightful bunch of frilly blossoms.

Our ground covering linear-leaf grevillea, which seems to have struggled in the shade cast upon it by its relative growing strongly above it, has also started to show signs of blooming.

Coastal rosemary has also flousrished, producing more tiny blue flowers than it has ever done for us before. And even our cherry tree gave us more blossoms than it has historically.

Now we are waiting on the kangaroo paw.

Part of the flourishing floral display this year has got to be the greater degree of winter sunlight than we have had the past couple of years, at least by my perception. And we got it today, too, with glorious clarity providing the most spectacular view of a full moon slowly descending over a snow-capped Mount Fuji….and I didn’t have a decent camera to capture the scene!