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bean seedlings against the garage are being eaten, despite the snail pellets
We’re not sure what is eating them though
the wysteria seedlings may have died
We don’t seem to have much success with them, over the years we’ve sprouted a few plants from seeds taken from mum & dad’s garden, but then the plants are either eaten, chopped down, or die over winter
rain overnight and today much needed, but the accompanying wind was not
Stormy winds most of yesterday afternoon and then intermittent overnight. Many of the small green plums have blown off and are on the lawn. Amazingly all the meyer lemons are still on the tree, although I did pick three after the heat of Friday and Saturday finally ripened them enough to be pickable.
the climbing rose closest to the railway on the front fence is dead
It hasn’t looked well for a year or so, it managed to sprout a few small leaves this year but then they’ve all died and I think the whole thing is dead.
native frangipanni[1] is flowering, and well over 2.5m tall
Ours has flowered later than the ones at Monash Uni and in Ann & John’s garden, it could be the age, could be the microclimate. Well on its way to replacing the silver birch, and growing nicely straight up as they seem to. [1] Native frangipani
the lilac between the house and the south fence is flowering, two or three flowers
Jo thinks it’s the first time she’s seen it flower, I suspect I’ve seen it before but can’t remember definitely one way or the other.
the cat dug up one of the bean seedlings to shit in the vege garden again
With 17mm of rain overnight, the bean seedlings look well established, most of the beetroot too
a cat dug up the bean garden bed to shit, I've replanted the bean seedlings
One completely dug out and buried, another dislodged.
a punnet of beetroot seedlings and one of snake beans planted out
Both survived their first night without devastation by possum. Seven snake bean plants, five against the back fence and two against the garage wall – probably too gloomy for them. Dozens of beetroot seedlings, some in the raised garden bed and some between the orange and lime trees.
The "yellow rose of root stock" is about to open
Walking around the suburbs everyone else’s roses are out, we’ve got buds all over ours – some eaten by borers or beetles.
The pink and white rose buds on the front fence are being eaten by borers of some kind
One "Charles de Gaul" rose in bloom, possums haven't found it this season
curly leaf and two small fruit on the potted peach, near nothing on the other
The peach tree in the front garden looks to be nearly dead with only a few tiny leaf buds, the one in the pot in the back garden is covered in leaves, has two small fruit, but has a fair bit of leaf curl
the meyer lemon is covered with large lemons, some so heavy the branches nearly touch the ground
callistemon in full flower, the snowball plant just turned white yesterday
orange tree covered in blossom, Jo's small flowering bush covered too
I can’t remember what it’s called – planted between the roses in the front garden and finally uncovered from the weeds after a solid few hours’ work by Jo.
dead-headed the grape hyacinths and iris
a visitor to the garden, a Pied butcherbird[1] flew in and sat on the fence, poking around under the bay tree
[2022-08-18 Thu] – I suspect I was mistaken and that it was a Grey butcherbird[2], but I’d not seen them up close here before [1] Pied butcherbird [2] Grey butcherbird
Our first magnolia blossoms are opening
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.