Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Morning Stroll..... and more rain!

Rain....
After a few dry days we've had more rain overnight.
32mm in the rain gauge this morning, and it's raining again now.

Our dam is full....

.... and the wood ducks are loving it :-)


Blooms....
The agapanthus bud I photographed last Friday has opened
These are in flower now (not sure what they are)
.... and here's another shot of a gorgeous gardenia.
Bugs....
There are stink bugs in the mandarin tree
and this fellow was climbing the mango tree

Recycling....
Two bed frames are now trellises
We spotted them across the road from a friends house. They'd been put out for a council road side collection, so hubby grabbed them. The blue frame has Purple King Beans climbing up it, and the red one is waiting for the next bean planting day.

Compost....
My 240lt compost bin
I have been waiting for hubby to make me a couple of compost bays from some mesh we are recycling, but he now has other plans for it! So I called in at Bunnings while I was in town yesterday and bought two more compost bins the same as the one above.

Vegetables....
While I was at Bunnings I picked up this punnet of heirloom tomatoes
There's one plant each of Black Russian, Mortgage Lifter, Tigerella & Green Zebra. This will give us a chance to try these. I can then buy seeds of the ones we like.

Have a great day.

--
BevB

6 comments:

Teena said...

More rain and more cleansing! Beautiful, the unknown flower is an Iris of some sort, I have them popping up in my ornamental garden as well, my dad couldn't remember the name of the flower but assures me its an Iris! I am a killer of gardenia's, love em, but kill em. Should just stick to vegies I think.
Great idea with the bed frames! Perfect!
xoxoxo

Karen said...

I have enjoyed visiting your site. Love the recycled bed frames! I have been eyeing these off during the council roadside collection too!

BevB said...

Thanks Cabbage Heart :-)
I kept thinking lily but knew that wasn't right.

Hi Karen,
Thank you for visiting my blog.
Next time you see some bed frames, grab them :-)

Anonymous said...

I'm off to the recycle shop to look for bed frames! What a great idea. How did you support them?

BevB said...

Hi Cosmic,
We used a star picket at each side of the bed frames, then tied the frames to the pickets with fencing wire.

Grammy said...

Oh, Thanks for stopping by. I am going to have to put your blog on my side bar. I love you blooms and would love to see how your tomatoes turn out.
Grammy