The passionfruit is growing

Dec 30 - She's still growing well.

Afternoon sun after mowing

How to espalier

By Canadian blogger https://www.theartofdoingstuff.com/pruning-apple-espalier/

The first white bauhinia flower!

And here it is! The first one, which I think has come out due to all the recent rain. I am glad she is a white one, as that's what I wanted there. So, so gorgeous.

2 Dec -

Grandfather's beard

Jeannette Meier (across the road) gave me heaps of this over various occasions and I am glad to have it displayed in my garden. It has enhanced my garden, I think, and helped to make it look established. It looked so pretty this morning with the dew drops on it from the rain.

El Nina

We are apparently in a phase of El Nina which brings us heaps of rain. It has rained solidly for a good two weeks or so now, with an overcast day here and there, enough to mow the lawns, thank goodness. This morning the rain had gone all day yesterday and all night last night, and the ground is sodden.

Hippiastrum bulbs

These turned up! I did not at first realise what they were but waited a bit until the pods ripened. Turns out they are hippiastrum bulbs. I kept the seed in a plastic box for a short while, then realised that they must be sown as ap if they are to be viable. SoI have scattered the little black flakes a the front corner, outside my fence, along with some nasturtium seeds and cosmos. It's an effort to pretty up that rough corner, where all the building debris is, and perhaps make it look like a rockery. It might take some extra rocks and a cheapo pathway through it to make it finished off.