Red geranium from Sonia Jones

I managed to get a cutting growing from Mum's geraniums which she got from Sonia Jones, Desmond's third wife. They live in Childers.

This is such a pretty, rich red flower. I have it shoved in a pot just now with old petunias, and some struggling portulacca.

New veggies in

Some lettuce and beef-eater tomatoes. I put in some snow peas, but I really think it's too hot for them at the moment to grow well (despite my watering).

No pic of the snow peas, as they look almost dead.

Mum's blue plumbago

...is huge and flowering so well at the moment - must be the 'great dry'.

I picked some for a vase at home -

Galpinii and honeysuckle - looking fine + update

Growing on my back fence.

And a cheeky morning visitor, after some crusts I had put out yesterday, and moistened with the hose when I was watering last evening.

Update: 30 Sept 2017 -

Two and half red flowers (at once) on the galpinii this morning. Most yet.

28 Oct (below) - thickening up nicely, and both flowering well.

14 Nov 2017:

Crepe myrtle shoots again - twice in one year? + update

I think our spring has come much too hot, too early. My crepe myrtle at the front has decided to shoot again - and it was only February this year when it did last time.

Here's the latest shoots:

Little bit blurry but my camera (on phone) couldn't quite get focused and the sun was shining in such a way that I couldn't see, PLUS my eyes were affected by blepharitis this week).

My blepharitis:

Crepe myrtle shoots update: 2 Oct 2017:

Looking healthy at the moment, hope the current rain will make it even better.

White book-tree shoots

The little-stick-that-was, has now some fairly healthy looking, but tiny, leaves - I am careful to water it daily, and I hope it grows well, like it's pink mate, already shown. These are beautiful trees.

The seedlings came from seeds I managed to find on the road at Coorparoo, when I worked there. They sprigged last December 2016, and the one I saved almost died back to a stick. I relocated it, and worried about it ever surviving, but it appears there is now a chance that it will grow.