a few mm of rain over the weekend, the fungi patch have sprouted under the dead silver birch again, I haven't seen them for ages!

Discovered a large dead branch broken off the plum tree and hanging above the shed, victim of a recent storm

the offending long and droopy bay tree branch has been removed, no longer do we need to duck while walking down the garden

Seedling check on the wildflowers; every single one of them dead or gone, so much for that lot

Another hour, another half wheely-bin of horribly rampant grasses cut down, dug up, chucked out

watered the native daisy seedlings I planted out on Sunday, they're not looking well, I suspect they dried & died

I have cut down the offending half-dead pittosporum & now I shall have a little sit down and a mug of coffee

edging the grass alongside the house turned into pulling a frighteningly large half cubic metre of old dead grass & creepers out from under the house

an hour and a half on the front lawn, pulling out nasty prickly burr weeds

crazy strong easterly winds all day, back garden is full of fruit, leaves and twigs

Found a stunning little emerald green spider in our Bay tree, then another two

dull grey overcast sky, but almost luminous greens from all the wet foliage in the garden, loquat in particular nearly glowing

Lilac and jasmine are flowering alongside the house, still almost drowned out by the pittosporum flower scent

Orange tree is blossoming again, jasmine is still out, grape hyacinths are done and need dead-heading

went out and planted a packet of sunflower seeds around the garden, here and there, I'll never remember where they all are

Rail workers carefully park their backhoes and attachments on the lawn so the all important, non-existent, traffic isn't affected, lawn comes off second-best

the morning family battle blocks/Finska game is turning the back lawn to a mud pit

potted three assorted succulent cuttings that we brought home from a visit to the parents in law

finally mowed the lawn, and mangled the lawn mower on the concrete thing in the lawn, then spent half an hour beating the blades back flat

half an hour of careful weeding, a bucket full of onion weed into the green bin…. hopefully with all their corms

onion weed, oxalis and some nasty looking clover-like burr plants, the lawn is not at its best right now!

Getting near Daylight Savings Time, the blackbirds[1] are calling ridiculously early in the morning, before first light

planted the "Australian Wildflower Everlastings" seeds into a poly box

A couple of days with rain and there are fungi popped up all around the two dead birch stumps

planted Cam's bean seedlings out into the garden, the science experiment is over

Convinced Cam to sleep inside tonight – he's been camping in the garden for two weeks!

cheapy K-mart totem-tennis broke this morning, exactly two months old, bought on [2020-07-09 Thu]

pulled another seemingly endless mass of ropey grass out of the garden beds, it really is the only thing we can grow reliably

finally cut down most of the dead, and decomposing, east-most silver birch, getting in before it comes down in a storm

almost all the grape hyacinths are out now, the one full hyacinth died back a while ago

Number one son has relocated the tent, he's been camping in the garden a week now

latest decorative mobile in the garden, made of Commonwealth Bank dollarmites tokens, has blown apart over the past few days and lies in pieces on the ground

spattering of rain overnight, the car and Cam's tent covered in red mallee mud dots

While on the roof in the wind I used the broken weatherboard to hit the dead silver birch, snapping off the nearest 1.5m branch

Leaves are out on the neighbour's Japanese maple, our tiny peach tree in a pot has three blossom

the entire back garden is humming with the bees in the plum tree above the shed

the low morning sunlight looks great on plum blossom & rainbow chard in the back garden