May. Autumn garden.

Begonia

Begonia semperflorens comes in shades of pink, rose, red and white. They'll grow to 25 cm in height and like a bit of shade. 

I have them in pots under the veranda on the back deck, and some in shady spots in the garden.

November garden

 Pulled out the Broad bean plants. Izzy picking the last beans and feeding them to her sister. 

Never seen a kid so keen to eat raw broad beans!

 Antirrhinums or Snapdragons 

 Nigella 'Love in a mist'

 Pink carpet roses under shade, just starting to flower

Below, same carpet rose in full sun, monster, over two metres in height and almost three wide.

Would make an awesome rose hedge.

 A double white carpet rose

 Irises

 'Wedding Day' rambling rose in flower, pink fairy rose on trellis

 'Wedding day'

I took this one at 8pm last night. Still light. One kid asleep and the other on her way.

It helps having the extra daylight to do things like poison grass. This bed coming along. 

Got rocks from Mums old house on the hill and out at BILs farm :)

From black suede to pink wink #openslather

Boggy changed jobs a few weeks ago, he's back driving a truck to Portland from the Mount everyday again. More money(fist pump) and a much happier hubby.

He had a week off before starting the new job and decided that Izzy needed a pink wall. This room used to Jakes, and the black suede wall served him well, but it was time to make it a bit more girly.

There were a couple of photos at the start of the wall, but too
much 'brickies cleavage' showing ;)

I bought some new pink blockout curtains from KMart for thirty bucks, bargain. Izzy has been sleeping in until 8 most mornings, I'm not sure if they have something to do with it, but I am not complaining one bit. Best $30 I've spent in a while. 

I know I wouldn't have got curtains ready to go at Spotlight for that price, and after the crappy time I had with their service and two kids in tow last time I was there, I wasn't keen to go back.

We had some left over ceiling white in the shed, and used this to lighten the wall, before Boggy put the pink on. He did a fantastic job, for someone who has never liked to paint, maybe because he never had a little girl to paint pink walls for ;)

Yes, Izzy has a queen size bed, she moved right on in to Jakeys old bed.
The painting on the wall is one he did at school too. It's been hanging
in this same spot for years. 

Spring brings....pink #openslather

There is so many flowers coming out in the garden right now, in just about every colour of the rainbow, it's getting hard to keep up. I love the surprise of going out and seeing something else coming out in flower. Here's some of the pink flowers on show right now.

 Alstroemeria 

 Maderense Geranium

 Rock rose(cistus)

Tamarisk tree