Heat affects

Took this one lazy afternoon when I was just home from work. Soo tired and did not even have the energy to put the basket of laundry away!

The girls were as hot and tired as I was - here they are all flaked out on the living room carpet, enjoying the breeze from the fan.

***

Latest verandah piccies

It's by no means finished, and there is a mish-mash of stuff at the moment, but my verandah is looking and feeling better lately.
I had the concrete steam-cleaned, and sealed by Sam Prendergast (Ipswich) and he did a great job.

This process of getting it to look right is going to take some time, but that's ok.

Brother lends a hand!

Last Saturday I had more topsoil delivered from Sapar, in a bid to make the front lawn more even and less undulating and compacted. It's a bid to add some nutrition too, although with not having rain for so long, the ground is dry and cracked. I had no time at all on the weekend to do anything with it, but Anthony, visiting from Mt Isa, offered to do some 'spreading'. It was great to watch someone else toiling on my land, for me!

Another tree

There's another tree I spotted near where I work in Coorparoo. I don't know what it's called but I really like it, and the tree itself.

Here it is: some detective work now needed to find out what it is and where I can get one!

Cassia - yellow

I have wanted one of these trees for years. There was a large one spreading over my grandmother's garden when I was a kid, and I loved it, especially it's little leaves, and curled up snail-like yellow flowers. I would love to plant one in my garden. I'm looking for one, to watch when it seeds, and them to propagate it.

Oddly enough, it's called Chinese Cinnamon - and where have I spent many of my favourite years?!

Apparently it's classed as a weed now in Qld, and is difficult to get now, say from a nursery, in a pot.

Wikipedia has a nice entry about this plant.

I bought some seeds from Ebay - not exactly the same but I like the way the pictures of the future plant have those bifold leaves and little curly, snail-like flowers, and the seeds in this pic are like the ones I remember were on the tree in my Nan's garden, at 31 Hickory Street, Inala.

Latest flowerings

Photos taken this morning: they're all still small, but I'm v. pleased with progress generally. The lawn needs more food for greening it up.

Honeysuckle -

Lovely bright pink bougainvillea -

The latest agapanthus  -

Tibouchina blooms -

All panels up

First morning view....

Plenty of light comes through the panels - there's no shortage of that, about which I am pleased.

I think there needs to be a break in the middle - a window, or something rounded. Otherwise, it looks a bit too enclosed. I can work on that.

The front garden looks a bit 'barren'. I plan to work on a garden bed there, raised and a bit curly, but with several levels and loads of flowers. Something like Bernie and Jeanette's garden, in a patch.

And...hippy-haven! Doesn't that rattan blind take one back to the '70's?