It's hasn't warmed up a hell of lot down South in south Australia. Not like the past years. We are lucky to be getting any temperatures up in to the 20s.
The flowers are emerging slower than previous years. We're getting there.
All my kids've been born in November. The last two, the girls, while we've been in this house, in 2009 and 2011.
I've made gardens in every house I've lived in since I was twenty years old. I remember even digging a bed along my mothers driveway and planting Petunias to brighten it up.
My favourite garden memory here has been, when I have come home from hospital with each baby girl, and driving down the driveway to an explosion of roses. The seem to have all come out to welcome our new babies home. Just magical. Those were hot Novembers, with the temps well into the high thirties.
These white flowers are from a brassica. I think it's a bok choy plant or something like that. I always pick a flower or two to eat, as I walk past. They are edible and I love the taste.
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| I haven't tasted the flowers from the broad bean plant, I do like the flower though. Plus from the flower a broad bean grows. We all like eating those, straight from the bush. |
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| Charles de Gaulle rose |
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| Cistus 'rock rose' |
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| I love the smell of these mini carnations. Divine. |
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| This is the Harry Wheatcroft rose. I have a soft spot for this one. It's one of the first roses I planted when we built this house. I never thought of myself as a gardener who talks to her plants. But every year when I see this rose flower for the first time in Spring, I always say "Hello Harry!" |
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| Just Joey rose |
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| Statice makes a fantastic dried flower. It lasts for ever in the vase inside too. |
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| Another fantastic fragrant flower. Sweet peas will never fail to send your sense of smell into overdrive. |
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| Joining Denyse for #lifethisweek |
