Being a short week at work, because of Christmas Day and then Boxing Day, I’ll write about things of interest at both home and work in the same post. The weather has been rather interesting this week too-we have had a couple of really intense thunder storms, where the rain was ridiculously heavy for a good 30 minutes or so. I haven’t seen rain that bad for a long time in Sydney, if ever (in 12 years of living here). Yesterday, my new weather station recorded 16.2mm of rain in 40 minutes. On the plus side I don’t have to water my plants!
In my garden, the seedlings sown last week have germinated which is good to see. I also have some very tiny tomatoes that have now appeared, which I am way too excited about for my own good! All but one of my cucurbits are flowering and my onions are growing well. There is also another flower bud on my poppies, although the plants are still looking battered from an earlier rain episode. So far, I haven’t done any seed sowing this weekend but this week I’m aiming for doing as little as possible!
I have some more roses for you today. They look good, the bees were busy enjoying them too and I just enjoy seeing them, which is what I find important about lot of the time.
Again we have some Corymbia flowers, I really do love these so much. The bees were swarming all over the tree and its flowers, which I always enjoy watching.
I came across some wisteria yesterday, with the flowers looking really pretty.
Below is an individual flower from a an agapanthus flower head. I think that the individual flowers look good and the white ones make a nice change.
While this particular species of morning glory is a weed here in Sydney, the flowers are rather pretty.
Finally are two pictures of Eucalyptus (top photo) and Angophora (bottom photo) bark. I love this time of year these trees are losing their bark, leading to this patchwork of different colours. Unfortunately, my phone camera hasn’t quite picked up the amazing orange-red colour of the Angophora bark that it had in the light at the time (which is the main reason why this species is my all-time favourite tree).
