Tag: Seasons

Winter in An Eclectic Sydney Garden

Always something to colour our patch!

Camellia ‘Brushfields Yellow’
Flapjacks ready to bloom against Banksia ‘Birthday Candles’
Fragrant osmanthus
Grevillea ‘Robyn Gordon’
Statice ‘Limonium perezii’
Unnamed camellia, plain offspring of variegated ‘King of Prussia’
Cream poinsettia
Grass tree flower heading skywards through the banksia

Sydney, NSW, Australia, 6 July 2019

Keeping cool with Six Word Saturday

Entering winter : we have water restrictions!

“It’s grand to be a lot of things in this fair southern land

But if the Lord would send us rain, that would indeed be grand”

– from the poem “Its Grand”, A B ‘Banjo’ Paterson, The Bulletin, May 1902

Every day the same, zero rainfall for the last 28 days. Yesterday, the city introduced water restrictions for the first time in ten years. Relatively, we are well off compared to our graziers out west. In fact, much of this wide brown land is in severe drought. Yet, Paterson wrote those words 117 years ago!

Staying dry with Six Word Saturday