Golden Elm.

Waking from her winter sleep, this Golden Elm tree.
Planted about 6 years ago, it is still relatively small. This year it has decided to do something different, put out something that looks like flowers. In the centre of each "petal" there is dark spot which seems to be a seed. I wonder if they will be viable?
Please click on the picture for a clearer view.

More blues

Continuation of the last Blog, here are the pictures that wouldn't fit on the last page. (Maybe some one could tell me how to post more than 4 pics at a time through Picasa) Cheery little bluebells, I love these little flowers, went to a heap of work some years ago to plant them under the silver birches in my "forest" but Popeye continues to ride over them with the mower, so the only ones to flower are those growing in the garden around the house.

The prettiest coloured freezia.

Glorious colour of a ground cover plant, name long forgotten.... I have a habit of purchasing a plant, planting it then discarding the label because of course, I should remember that !! (but dont)

Last, but not least, just a touch of blue on these Dutch irises. I do try to NOT have yellow flowers because, to me yellow is a weed colour, and I have enough weeds without adding more. I ordered these bulbs from an interstate bulb nursery, they were advertised as WHITE....but when something grows so well....who am I to decide that it cant. I dont dig them when they are dormant, they simply keep on coming back.

Blue on blue

Blue is my favourite colour in the garden. The first picture shows Blue Pacific which grows over the side of the cut out that our house sits on. Disregard the weeds please. I have been unable to do much bending for the last couple of months. We have 7 of these shrubs growing in the garden surrounding our home. They are just about at their best now, after a good winter rainfall this year.

Next is this pretty lavender, which looks much better in real life than in a picture.

Pride of Madiera, an Echium that I planted 2 years ago is about to come into full bloom. I hope it is not monocarpic as is the Crown of Jewels echium. I have saved some of the seeds from crown of jewels...mental note to myself.....time to plant them.

Lastly, only because its not posssible to post more than 4 pictures through Picasa...gnash-gnash...is a picture of this very pretty iris. I'll have to post the other pictures some other time. Off to the Gnomes for afternoon tea soon. Looking forward to that.

Nearly snow.

The weather forecast on the 9 news was for likely snow in the hills. It did not eventuate but we got the next best thing, hail.....pease click to enlarge the pictures. Here we have a shot of it along the southern side of our house.

Next, caught in the Agave. This poor plant will suffer. It is always marked where the hail hits and the leaves will be spotted.

Just another pot plant with hailstones. Wouldn't you know it...the batteries in the camera are ALWAYS flat when you need it in a hurry. There has been some "wild and wooly" weather here for the last few days, rain and wind. Extreme dust storms in the Eastern states. This is SPRING folks !!!

Oh !! What beauty...

Close up shot of the flowers of my beautiful weeping cherry tree

Its such a pity

that as soon as it flowers the wind picks up and blows the petals off. I wish someone could breed flowering trees and shrubs that flower, for longer than one week. I have made a Blog about this tree last year, I know, but I just cant help myself. At least it waited for me to return home from my trip to Canberra.

Home again, home again.......

Pictures of our beautiful Capital City, CANBERRA. Lake Burley Griffin in the foreground

I have no idea what the buildings are, everything is so clean and pretty.

The pictures were all taken from almost the same spot

The plan was to see Floriade
which is an annual festival of flowers, but unfortunately I (we) got the dates mixed up, I was there a week too soon and it was all fenced in. My daughter-in-law has promised to send me some photos.
Canberra is a very pretty place, a lot like Adelaide, with hills surrounding the city.

Canberra, here I come !

I shouldn't be sitting here, wasting time. I can't help myself. Pity Popeye can't come as well, he has 2 incubators full of eggs to look after. The worst part is, I'm going to miss my weeping cherry tree in all its glory this year, the buds are about to burst into bloom.