Up Close & Personal - Pt 2

One double jonquil flower fully open. I wish we had PCs with smelling capabilies. The perfume of just one of these will fill a whole room.

Up Close & Personal - Pt 1

One double jonquil flower about to open.

Double Jonquils

My double jonquils are out. The flower heads get so many flowers with so many petals that they get very heavy & fall over. This is usually when I pick them & take them inside.I have to be very careful though how many I pick & where I put them as the perfume is so stong I can end up with sinus. Usually only one in a small vase is enough to perfume the whole room.

The Bug World

Ant bites hurt at the best of times, so I am glad this fellow left me alone. I spotted him crawling all over my climing rose. It is easy to see his size compared to the size of the rose leaf he is crawling on. He was at least an inch long.

I wonder how he liked out 5 degree moring this morning!

Bye Bye Birdie

There are only so many camera clicks a bird can take.

Play Time

After hearing a rucus going on in the front garden, I found these Noisy Miners playing in my new frangipanni tree. This tree is a pink frangipanni that has been in a pot for a few years, and when we planted it we staked it, & tied some fabric strips around to hold it in place. As you can see the birds are playing with some of the fabric threads. The weather is a bit too cool for nesting, so they must have been just having fun.

Slimey Things

The slimey things are back.

Garlic Chives

Who would have thought that garlic chives could have such a pretty flower? Nearly pretty enough to put in a vase. Take it easy on the chives in food prep though. These garlic chives are very strong & only one leaf is necessary to flavour anything.

Spectacular Show

This bush in my back yard has really appreciated the rain that we had a few weeks back. It is now just a mass of blooms. I think this is where the stick insect was hiding. I want to prune it as it has gone crazy right in front of the garden shed. I'll wait a bit though & see how long it flowers. DH gave it a hair cut last year & it took off like a weed. Maybe it likes to be pruned. After much reaserch, I still do not know what it is.

A New Bromeliad

One of my stitching groups is a great source of new plants. We bring each other cuttings, bulbs, etc & swap plants gallore. The lady who has been bring me the orchids also brought in a few bromeliads to give away. L.... already had this one picked out for me. I have never grown these type of plants before, so I have just potted it in some orchid mix that I had. It's an interesting plant, but not one of my favourites. I'll give it a go though & see what happens.