Gardenia about to flower for the first time!

Look at those huge, full green buds!

Update 12 Nov 2018: first bud beginning to open -

Aaaaand...lift off! 13 Nov 2018 Such a sweet perfume, too.

Bird bath petunias

There's pretty blue lobelia scattred in there, and light grey/green dichondra at the front.

Garden shots after mowing today

Spreading out the soil from the old garden beds around the lawn.

Flame Tree about to flower?

This morning I thought it rather odd that many leaves from the flame tree had dried and fallen on the ground. I looked more closely and lo! I believe it is about to flower. Leaves off, small orange buds, new growth.

Flame trees elsewhere - the way it is supposed to look -

Stimson Park, Moorooka

28 Nov 2018: Stimson Park again, on the fade - 

Looking a bit derelict now that the fire has gone!

5 Dec 2018:

Grounds of Churchie Child Care Centre:

Update 15 Nov 2018: Flowers appearing as leaves fall.

Pretty girls posing outside in the garden

10 Nov 2018: Tiina, in the morning sunshine

Taffy (Sapphira)

She's so sweet!

Tutti-Robocat!

Tiina, outside, early Sat morning, on 24 Nov 2018:

Taffy, on the garden chair, early morning 2 Dec 2018 -

Ficus #1 passes 3rd marker!

At last, this ficus, which I have been watering quite fullsomely lately, has finally gone over the third ridge in the corrugated iron of m back fence!

See previous notes re-this ficus. This is where it was up to, a month or so ago - Sept 2018 :

I have been waiting for this point for 3 years. I so want it to cover the fence, and help hold the old fence together!

I remember the garden guy at the nursery around the corner, where I purchased this vine, telling me 'woah, they need a bit of water', meaning they need A LOT of water, hence my prolific watering so far this season.

15 Nov 2018: 

23 Nov 2018: We have a lot of rain recently, and I have left the hose dripping on this plant. There is, consequently, a host of new growth, so it appears to be true that they 'like a bit of water' as the nursery man once said to me. So, in appreciation of recent rapid growth, I will keep the moisture up to it this seasons and see how much she travels across the fence.

Here are pics of different regions of the fence/plant. I love the variation in colour between the older and new light leaves.

2 April, 2019 - It has grown and spread a lot this year.

Spider-lillies this season + updates

The first spike!

HERE's them elsewhere in the garden, in the past. Now they ARE in the garden edging beds!

20 Nov 2018:

26 Nov 2018: And the demise -