This week has felt strangely long and tiring compared to normal and I’m not really sure why. It’s not been busier or harder at work, nor busier at home, so I’m not sure what’s happening with that.

While the overnight temperatures are below twenty degrees, the days are still quite warm-the Australian sun is very strong, even half way through autumn. At work there are still plenty of flowers around which I always enjoy looking at. There have been lots of tiny lizards about, a ladybird or two and a rather large caterpillar at home.

There are several roses flowering well still. While not my favourite flowers, they still put on a good show.

Plovers are a species of bird I see quite often here in Sydney-at several places I’ve worked over the past three years or so have had some around. You normally see them in pairs.

I’ve not had orange flowers in a while so here is a rather fabulous canna lily flower that’s appeared at work this week. I love it because it’s so bright and cheerful.

Speaking of canna lilies, here are the lovely leaves of the other canna lilies on site, which are the nicer leaves out of the two (but the flowers are not quite as good as the one above).

Gazinia flowers are rather nice. The plants as a whole are one of those that happily just spreads and spreads.

The murraya hedge at work is busy flowering away at the moment, the flowers have the strongest smell going. They are a good smell, but can be a little overpowering if you stay close for too long!

The lemon-scented gum (Corymbia citriodora) at work is a fabulous tree. From doing a quick bit of reading, it is native to Queensland, from Cooktown to Gladstone, but is naturalised in New South Wales ‘sparingly’, whatever that’s meant to mean. The leaves, do smell of lemon too, which is lovely.

That’s my week in plants, and a couple of little critters. This weekend, I’ll be doing some gardening at home and maybe a bushwalking too.