A beautiful spring day today, my friend Dina's birthday and to celebrate we went to Angaston for lunch. Set in picturesque grounds on Valley Rd. is "The Community Store and Kitchen" The first picture is of Manchurian Pear blossom, absolutely gorgeous !














2nd. is what I think is called may flower, I like white flowers.











A picture of the main building






A view from our table.

Garden bits and pieces

First here are some lovely lilliums, given to me by some guests that came to lunch on Saturday. Lovely day, and lovely company.














A snow gum tree about to burst into flower


















Pussy willow


















Daffodils growing amongst the blackberry, must try to do something about that this summer!!

Blossom

A beautiful weeping cherry tree, such a pity the flowers last only a couple of days. Usually what happens is, a strong wind comes along and blows the blooms off, right at the time when it looks its best.


For some of these pictures I had to lay on my back, under the tree, and those who know me will realise just how hard that was. (not the down, but the getting up bit!)

4 weeks old

Here they are, now 4 weeks old. The little blighters wont stay still enough to have a clear picture taken! Or ...... maybe its this old chook, cant hold the camera still enough. Notice though, there is still one bad, mad one standing in the corner.

Bloomin' beautiful

A lovely warm sunny day today but............where are the bees ? While taking these pictures I saw a total of 2 bees, or maybe it was the same bee I saw twice !!
The top 3 pictures are plum blossoms, hopefully we will have some fruit from the tree this year.
Next we have a very bedraggled looking avocado, damage caused by the hail stones and frost, but showing the buds forming for (fingers crossed) next years fruit.
Pretty daffodils white with apricot ruffled trumpets.
A pretty Penstemon, I carried back as a struck cutting from Melbourne Flower Show a couple of years ago. When I bought it they told me it was blue. How disappointing it is when this happens, all too frequently. I have made a promise to myself, not to buy anything in future unless it has at least 1 flower showing the colour. Never the less this is a very pretty Penstemon.
Next is a couple of Camelias, would you believe, from the same bush.
Then, last but not least, a pretty little native bush that will grow to about 2 metres high, of which I do not know the name. A friend very kindly struck it from her plant.

I DID have a cold frame !

I went out this morning to open the cold frame because it is going to be a lovely sunny day and I didn't want to cook my newly emerging seedlings, only to find that "some thing" had jumped on the glass overnight. I suspect that it may have been a kangaroo, there are lots of them around at the moment. They come out of the forest looking for water, since Woods and Forests have breached the dams that were in the forest, they jump over, or through, our fences to drink from our dams.
GRRRRRRRRRrrrr!!!!