40 degrees

 The bees kept the hive at 35 degrees 

Scarlet Runner Beans (Phaseolus coccineus)

Lilies Flowering

Harvesting Garlic

Alium sativum

Moved the Strawberries into a Sunnier Spot

Our Other Garden

Lal Lal

Marbled Gekko in a Flower Pot

Christinus marmoratus

Tied up Tomatoes

Another Super Required on a Beehive

It is possible to extract very small amounts of honey in a salad spinner...

Chooks Testing the New Grandpas Feeder

The feeder closes when the chooks are not standing on the plate

A Family of Blackbirds

Turdus merula - the parents are been very busy, they return 

every five minutes while it's light with food

Flies and tiny wasps on Parsnip Flowers

Kangaroo Paw Flowering

Anigozanthus sp.

Flowers on Canna sp.

Picked 2.1kg Cherries

Fly on Parsnip Flowers

A tiny fly on tiny parsnip flowers

Cherries Almost Ready to Pick

Prunus avium

Sweetcorn

Staggered planting this year to ensure a continuous supply instead of a glut...

Crepe Myrtle!

Lagerstroemia indica

Bagged Grapes

Bagged grapes to keep the birds out

Trimmed Myoporum parvifolium

Nearest part cut with mower, rest trimmed with hedge shears

Strawberries, Silvanberries, Loganberries, Raspberries

Fragaria × ananassa, Rubus ursinus x hybrid, Rubus × loganobaccus, Rubus idaeus

Flowers on Canna sp.

These are nearly 2 metres high (Canna indica)

Bargain from Bunnings marked down plants

Okee Dokee Peach (Prunus persica) - even cheaper than bare rooted!

Moved the bagged Tomatoes into the sun

Pea Straw Mulch on the Capsicums and Eggplant

Pea Straw Mulch on the Tomatoes

Roma in the front, Grosse Lisse and Red Cherry at the back

An Onion Flower

Alium cepa - one of the last of the onions in the front garden

A Caterpillar on the Grapes

The grapes will be bagged soon

Apples filling the codling moth socks

Malus domestica 'Fuji'

Flies waiting for the rain to stop

First berries of summer

Loganberries (Rubus × loganobaccus)

Tree Dahlias getting started again

Dahlia imperialis - they will shortly be higher than an elephant's eye

More mulch and compost in the spudariums

Spuntas

Passionfruit Flower

Passiflora edulis

More Ferns in the Fernarium

A visit to the NMIT nursery results in more fern in the fernarium

Cleaned out the Fish Pond

Moved the Cumbungi (Typha domingensis) from the fishpond where it was taking over

Rain

Rain on brassicas

Kangaroo paw about to flower

Anigozanthus flavidus - yellow form

Nastursium Flower

Tropaeolum sp.

Even More RTF3014B Implement a Propagation Program

Anigozanthus flavidus - grown from seed

Planted out the Capsicums and Eggplant

Solanum melongena 'Lebanese'

Capsicum annuum 'Californian Wonder'

Capsicum sp. 'Long Green'

Planted out the Tomatoes

Roma in the front, Grosse Lisse and Red Cherry at the back

Platycerium sp. waiting to go in the Fernarium

Platycerium superbum and a very small (and hidden) Platycerium hillii

Feijoa Flowers

Acca sellowiana

Grape Flowers

Vitis vinifera 'Marroo Seedless'

Loganberries Ripening for Christmas

The loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus) is an octaploid hybrid produced 

from crossing a hexaploid apomictic blackberry and a tetraploid raspberry.

They are also very tasty.

Scarlet Runner Bean Flowers

Phaseolus coccineus

Bees Getting Very Active

 Lots of bees coming and going to the hive

 

Lots of bees around the entrance to the hive

Possibly related to the sudden change in temperature and humidity?