My garden update part 1

The poincianas still have a few flowers on them and plenty of new growth



But some of the leaves are starting to yellow off... you can see some yellow ones beside my little follower


Tibouchina alstonville is still flowering well though the flowers are fading a bit


This would just about be the last lot of flowers on the Leopard Tree


Still plenty of flowers on the melastoma affine though


More in part 2

That tree is So huge Gail, how is the table makeover going

Looking good Gail ..

Thanks.

That tree is only a baby yet! It's hard to see in the pics but there is a pot plant on each seat... the plants are only small yet but are twining types so hopefully will grow over the seats.

absolutely gorgeous, gail!

Thanks "Ruler of the known Universe"... sorry Tessa, I mean

Gail I am amazed your Poinciana is still flowering ,here they finished ages ago ans now have seed pods.Everything else is growing well.

I'm surprised too Gwen. The poincianas have never flowered for this long before. Not many flowers but all three trees have a few... plenty of seed pods too.

Gail wrote:

Thanks.

That tree is only a baby yet! It's hard to see in the pics but there is a pot plant on each seat... the plants are only small yet but are twining types so hopefully will grow over the seats.

It will be more butt friendly Gail

Sorry gail,i a bit late charming in here

Shes looking lush at your place at the moment.

Is that a kookobara in the tree or a butcher bird?

Richard cant you tell the difference

Richard, the bird is a butcherbird. This is one of our resident kookaburras.


It is nice and green at the moment... the 58mm that Cyclone Hamish gave us helped that

wow, i love that first pic! what a great place to sit on a hot day! why are there pot plants on the seats though

No i cant Cheryl alright they look so simlar

Thanks Ota. The pot plants on the seats is because we don't like that garden setting so I am going to use it as a pot plant stand We are more into the informal style of garden settings rather than the formal style of this one. We have 3 poincianas and have a deck under one where we sit regularly

A good way to recycle unwanted seats Gail...

Gail wrote:

We have 3 poincianas and have a deck under one where we sit regularly

oh you lucky thing, lots of nice shady spots to choose from. that would be the garden of my dreams, one with lots of shady choices but it's so hard on a small block :pirat:

Only real shady area I have is under the wissy on the back steps

When we moved here there was hardly any shade at all in the garden... hardly any garden for that matter... so it was very hot in summer both in and outside the house. It is amazing how much cooler it is now. We have a couple of other little seats around and want to put more in so we have a choice of views.

I have enough tables and chairs to play musical chairs

Oi VAL I have 2 chairs for you BTW

We've been trying to find stumps and nice planks to use as rustic looking seats... fit in much better with our garden. We will also plonk down on a couple of big rocks for a quick breather when working.

you've done well gail, I have my pergola now to sit under but it's just not the same as the shade from a tree but much better than sitting out in the sun

Gail, love your garden. So colorful and lush. It is so dry down where I am that I can't even get shade trees started. Our local nurseryman told me this morning though that we'd get a wet winter now that Lake Eyre is full. Fingers crossed that he's right.

Thanks Betty. We are just coming out of our wet season and coming into the dry so won't be long and everything will be brown again. The wet season hasn't been all that wet this year either, a bit below average but at least it's something and better than a couple of years ago when we hardly had any. Yours will come soon... it goes in cycles and the fires should help (smoke particles in the atmosphere are supposed to attract moisture particles... that's the theory anyway)

Believing it will be a wet year is like believing in the tooth fairy or santa claus I think. I just planted a heap of flower seeds on the off chance, and bought some seedlings this morning, but not wasting money on trees of any sort. Don't mind me, I'm just depressed because we are having a couple more hot days.