Corella's

 

I went out early this morning to water the garden before the heat and noticed that Corella's had come for breakfast at my neighbours Steve's place. Their manners leave a lot to be desired, not only are they very noisy, but they leave a mess for Steve to clean up after they leave..... Couldn't miss the photo opportunity though. 

Playing with photos

Taking photos is one thing that I really enjoy doing and then playing with them is also something I like to do. Using filters when taking photo's can add to the character and appeal of a photo, here is a sample of some photos I've taken recently.

Days Harvest

Well JT I thought I would post some photo's of my harvest today from the vegetable garden, just so you can see how well the garden in producing over here in Australia. Today we picked green beans, butter beans, snow peas, strawberries, zucchini. Our beans are producing very well, the amount we picked today was about seven kilo's. It took about an hour and a half to process them and get them into the freezer, we won't need to buy beans over the next twelve months. I enjoy this time of the year planting out the garden, then caring for the plants and watching them grow. Most of all  harvesting the product of our labour. Got to love that....

Time To Blog

 Finding time to update my blog has been impossible lately due to a son spending time in hospital, visiting twice a day most days. Also working six days a week for the past three weeks there has not been much time to myself. It does not matter how old your children are you never stop being their mum. I have managed to take a photo or two as flowers open, some are short lived so didn't want to miss them. Here is a photo of the first flower from my Lilium Vermeer, I bought these bulbs from  Tesselaar Tulip Fesrival earlier this year.

 

Day Lily

I was given this Day Lily by a lady tidying up her garden, I had no idea until it bloomed what colour it was. What a nice surprise it was to find it in my garden.

Day Lily

Gladiolus x colvillei - Blushing Bride

I was given some bulbs from a lady on free cycle who was cleaning up her garden, she had lots of bits a pieces to give away. Not having pen and paper with me I was unable to write down the names of bulbs I was given. So I planted them and was pleasantly surprised by some of the flowers that bloomed. One being Gladiolus x colvillei - Blushing Bride, very attractive this one, flowering here in Victoria September-October.

Epicacti

A stray plant given to me by a neighbour that on longer wanted it has finely flowered and it was well worth the wait. Named for me by a member of a garden forum as Epicacti, not a very good looking plant but what a stunning flower..