most of the freesias are flowering now, a shame that the carefully purchased "red and blue" ones are mostly mauve and white!

Callistemon has started flowering, so of course passers-by have started ripping branches off so they can "take the pretty flowers"

the backyard is full of tufts of white fur from yesterday evening's cat fight with the new black and white interloper

we may have a new feral cat around or under the house, a scrawny white one with black blotches just shot across the front garden

freesia buds are just about open, some of the grape hyacinths are flowering, the one hyacinth is nearly open

We've tidied the shed and put out this year's hard rubbish for the council collection, the old men in utes are cruising the streets

Oddly, other peoples' hard rubbish has started accumulating on our lawn; a footstool, a few discarded belts, nothing from us yet

A very noisy mudlark[1] has moved in to the garden

White blossom is starting to appear on the plum tree over the shed

A Red wattle-bird[1] comes swooping in to the camellia and to sit on the fence, no photos due to the flyscreens

the blossom on the nature strip plum tree has opened, from just buds on Sunday evening

Purple-pink bud colour is showing on the street tree plum on the nature strip

Oranges continue to ripen and fall, one or two a day. Consumption is not keeping up

Magnolia blossoms on the tree in the front garden are starting to open, all the buds full of colour

the last of the bamboo stakes have now been used to make one final tripod for the broad-beans to climb

woken up by one of the neighbours' cats breaking in the cat door and scrabbling crazily around the kitchen before crashing back out again

warm weather over the weekend and half a dozen oranges have ripened and fallen off, this crop all seem smaller than last time

The bay tree has had a large pruning to take weight off one dodgy trunk and amazingly, it is hardly noticeable from in the garden

bamboo trellis tripods installed around the broad beans, pak choi planted

planted a row of pea seeds that Cam collected yesterday when passing an XR protest

outside it's dull and grey and wet and a pair of Red wattlebirds[1] are feeding in the neighbour's tree

there's a Grey butcherbird[1] sitting on the fence about 3m away outside the window, but the new windows with flyscreens mean no photos

An hour of shovelling and I've covered the citrus garden bed with wooodchip mulch from the neighbour's tree

Is it garden or house? Either way, I suspect we have a possum in the roof space above the kitchen – noisy scratching, and definitely unwanted

wandering around the garden examining the autumn fungi and falling leaves, we found a huge case-moth case hanging in a bush

another row of broadbeans planted, hopefully to stagger the crop production

the broadbean seedlings have started to sprout

The three tiny pumpkins all died, rotted and fell off so we've pulled out the plant – so much for the pumpkin crop

the 2023 eggplant crop consist of one small purple eggplant, ripening nicely, but only a bit bigger than a golf ball

Two rows of broad bean seeds planted in one of the raised garden beds

there are still a few green tomatoes in the garden, I suspect nothing more will ripen now that its getting cooler

looks as though the daphne may have succumbed to mistreatment or neglect during the renovations

A solid two hours of mowing and gardening, destroying the mower in the process – mangled the blade on a concrete cover

I grabbed a double handful of tomatoes while we were visiting the house, they're doing well considering the lack of watering

builders had turned off the watering system tap so the vege. garden is all dried up, but harvested some toms

registered with the Victorian EPA to have garden soil samples analysed… this could be interesting

I have harvested the second tomato! Fingers crossed that the weather stays warm for long enough that the rest ripen up

colour starting to appear in some of the tomatoes and all the plants have collapsed as our stakes are too slender and soil too shallow

planted a punnet of lettuce seedlings and two pots of petunias

garden renovation destruction – all the beds against the house stomped down to ground level during building works

potted up the cactus cuttings from grandad tritsch's garden

so many plums now, I just about have to do the limbo to get to the shed under the branches