Spring Solo 12 & 13 September 2014

Not too much to say for this entry.

Came up by myself on the Saturday morning.  It was lovely weather - sunny, blue skies.  Wore my "Summer " overalls for the gardening/weeding

I was pleased to see new flowers from bulbs/corms that I had planted.  But was a bit cross that all of the poppies that I had put in from Jill have been eaten, as have the Asian greens.  I might try for some more, but don't know what's eating them - snails? harlequin bugs? something else?

coloured freesia

ranunculus

grape hyacinths

And I was also pleased to see that quite a few of the almond trees have small nuts forming.  Let's hope that I get to harvest some this time - and that they're not all destined for the cockies/corellas

almonds forming on the tree

The rest of the fruit trees are staring to blossom too

some sparse blossoms on the nectarine

 And I pulled out the dead olive tree, and replaced it with another one.  The only thing was when I cut back the dead one, it wasn't actually dead....No leaves though, and it certainly looked dead, but the branch was still green/supple.  Oh well I've planted that one back in Melbourne now, and hope that the replacement olive (pictured below) will thrive

replacement olive tree

 

And speaking of gardening and fruit trees, Rodney the guy that I bought a few of these fruit trees from dropped in to see how trees were faring.  So I gave him a garden tour.  He recommended that I severely cut back the gooseberry as it had been badly burnt by the frost.

Given that it was such a lovely warm sunny day, I thought I would have my first Gin & Tonic of the season up on the veranda after I'd finished with the gardening, so I did, and it was glorious.  And, given that  I was by myself, I thought I would experiment a little, and sleep in the upstairs red room.  Alex had said that this room has the best bed, and it now has the blackout curtains, so the light wouldn't wake me in the morning

Well, I did sleep there, and yes the bed was very good, but I still woke up rather early - even though the room was dark.  Oh well

More weeding/trimming etc on Sunday and I'm pretty sure that I saw a baby snake in the garden bed in front of the fence.  I initially thought it was a large skink, but it was pale, and I didn't notice any legs.  When it escaped it didn't seem to run either, I guess more of a slither.  So I better get rid of all of the long grass, and make sure that I wear gloves/boots etc.  Although I must admit that I don't really like wearing garden gloves for smaller/fiddly weeds, but better that than being bitten.