After the
hottest and driest summer, I have ever gone through it has been such a relief to
of had some good rain.
We had
around the 120 mills in total during March and thank goodness the temperature
has finally gone into the 20s.
Basically,
every day during summer at the end of the day I was soaked in sweat and had to
leave my work clothes outside as they smelled so much of sweat.
No matter
how hot it was I still worked every day in the garden making both big and small
improvements.
Aroids are gaining in popularity, so here are some of ours.
Several
trailer loads of rocks and soil and new plant plus two new shade areas have
made the garden more interesting and an draw-card for this year’s ‘Open Garden’.
Wow our 'Condom Plant has flowered.
We had bus
trips from Mt Tamborine and Caloundra Garden Clubs which were great always nice
people and keen gardeners who loved our garden.
It's a small world a
lady from 'Caloundra garden club' had an English accent and I asked her where
she was from, and it was not far from where I lived as a child, I then asked
her what school she went to and lo and behold it was "Haslucks Green
Primary School' same as me, we are the same age and were possibly in the same
class.
I have started preparing
a new garden presentation starting with Aroid family followed by colour in the
garden red, yellow ect.
Amazing just how many red flowering plants we have.
Still have plenty of visitors of the feathered variety.
I have decided to name the presentation 'Aroids, Orchids and Colour in the Giving Garden'.
After the rain it is
amazing just how quickly the garden has sprung back to life, there are still
quite a few bare patches on the lawn where the grass has died but hopefully that
will come back, otherwise everything is looking very healthy.
What a relief.
