On the Streets: End of Winter

Today I’m going to show you a few flowering highlights from my meanderings in the neighbourhood

starting with this superb camellia.

An almond tree struggles on in a vacant lot

Coral trees (I think) in flower in the street

and Geraldton wax is in flower

What Are You Doing in My Swamp?!!!

In today’s post I’m going to give you a look at my local swamp.

I love the way it looks in winter when the weeds and nasturtiums have grown and it’s all greened up.

The swamp is right next to where I park my car for work so I walk past it every day.

Here’s a native wisteria climbing a dead tree

with its beautiful pea flowers.

And there’s a flock of around 10 chickens that happily wander around in here everyday

with their head rooster for protection.

I sometimes think they must live the almost natural chicken life (they belong to one of the houses that backs onto the wetlands)

First Signs of Spring

 

It looks like spring is on its way – there is some blossom starting to appear, caterpillars are appearing and the birds are chasing each other and whistling happily. I think they’re in lo-o-o-ve.

These photos are of my newly planted dwarf ‘Sunset’ nectarine which has just bloomed. It’s eventual height is around 1 – 1.5 metres according to the breeder’s website. This is just a baby.

The beauty of this variety is that it’s very low chill - the breeder says it can be grown in Sydney and Queensland, and it’s an early fruiting variety (November in warmer areas) which extends the availability of backyard fruit by months. Yum!

New growth is a burgundy-red colour which gradually changes to green.