First night up in the nest box

Still not up on the perch and still laying in the straw downstairs

70.36 mm of rain in 24 hours

Lots of rain and more to come today

Flower buds on the Grape vine (Vitis vinifera)

Last year the birds got most of the grapes so these will get the sock treatment this year

Socks on the Apple Tree

Exclusion bags on the 'Fuji' apple to keep codling moth out

Leafy Greens

Pak Choy, Lettuce and Rocket. 
This bed will be used for Sweetcorn and Cucurbits this year 
but it's not warm enough yet to plant them out.  
The wire in the middle is to the temperature sensor.

Rose

This rose was transplanted this winter from the front garden

Spudarium topped up with straw and compost

This one contains Spunta potatoes

Planted Carrots

'Purple Dragon' and 'Topweight'

Potting up capsicum and eggplants

30 degrees yesterday but still not warm enough to plant out

RTF3014B Implement a Propagation Program

 

Pelagonium sp.

Backhousia citriodora

Agapetes sp.

Correa pulchellea 

Prosthanthera cryptonoides

Eremohphila serpens

Mentha x piperita f.citrata

Flowers in the front garden

Chooks washed in miticide

Not a happy chicken...

Aquaponic Strawberry about to be eaten

Zonal Pelagonium flowers

Grown from a cutting

T Budding Citrus

Meyer Lemon, Blood Orange, Tahitian Lime tbud onto Eureka Lemon

Aquaponic Strawberries and a chicken with four drumsticks

Hokowase strawberries growing in water from the fish pond

First day out in the garden for the new chook/s

Peach leaf curl

My peaches and nectarines were sprayed in August. These parts of my nectarine were underneath a neighbour's much larger peach tree.

Tomatoes in bags

Cherry, Roma and Grosse Lisse tomatoes planted into 

bags of potting mix and hanging outside the back door

Fishpond full after rain

12mm rain in 24 hours

Pullet eggs

Rosaceae

 Nashi Pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)

 Strawberry (Fragaria ananassa)

 Cherry (Prunus avium)

Loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus)

 Quince (Cydonia oblonga)

Apple (Malus domestica)

Apple flowers from another tree to pollinate my Fuji

 The other tree I think is probably a Jonathan

Dogs flat out in the garden

New chook ladies

Wax moths evicted from the beehive

Max in the front garden lapping up the sun

Storm clouds about to drop 16mm of rain

16mm in 24 hours

Crassula atropurpurea var anomala

From the Botantic Gardens Plant sale

First apple blossom of spring

Bee (Apis mellifera) in the first apple (Malus domestica 'Fuji') of the year

Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Spring Plant Sale

Brazilian Bell Flower Abutilon megapotamicum

Nylon socks on the quince to keep out codling moth

Cherry Blossom and Bees behaving strangely

Prunus avium 'Stella'

A small cluster of bees on the fence near the hive

A new super on the beehive and brassicas planted out

Bees

The new super installed, plastic frames and a nice shade of green

Planted out brassica seedlings with bird netting ready to go on

Flowering Euphorbias

Euphorbia x martinii