This weekend we had a new pair of birds in our garden - at least one pair of white winged trillers as we saw two females. There are a lot of small moths and butterflies in the garden at present.
The bearded dragon was under the lilly pilly beside the driveway yesterday. There are not many finches around at present although a few were seen on the fence. A pair of magpies have been wandering about collecting morsels from the lawn. There was also a pair of red rump parrots on the lawn on Sunday morning. The brown honeyeaters continue to guard their territory just below the house.
Spring is well advanced now with the paper daisies - Rhodanthe and Brancteantha past their best and fading from pink to white. The yellow Schoenias are still doing well and the Xerochrysums are now blooming with more to come. It has been a good display for the past 2 months. there are also dark purple volunteer Petunias among them.
On Friday I got a load of mulch and must now protect the beds from more weed growth, following the good rain we had last week. We are enjoying some cooler weather after a hot dry period recently.
The new bean screen garden bed at the end of the house is going well. The scarlet runners are climbing the screen and have started to flower. The purple climbers are just beginning to send up runners and there are also three white climbing beans racing to the line. The corn is also about 20 cm tall and the next crop has been sown. these three lines will hopefully provide a shade barrier in the coming month before the sun moves sufficiently south.
The veggie garden is now producing broad beans and peas. We also have ruby chard coming on well, carrots and leeks. I planted out the tomatoes from the tubs. They are starting to flower and produce fruit.
In the shed, progress continues with the dining room chairs. Two more came inside with their 3 coats of varnish and I hope to finish the final two this week. The bar stools are now going together. It may soon be too hot to work out there.
On Sunday we drove out to Brookstead to see an open garden belonging to one of my Tai Chi friends. It was an oasis in a wide open floodplain of cropping land beside the Condamine river. She was celebrating one hundred years of gardening by six generations of women there and it was a very pleasant place to be, with quite a few visitors despite the distance - over 60 km from Toowoomba. We did a circuit via Pittsworth and returning by a northern route through Biddeston. It has been a while since we ventured west onto the Darling Downs and it was a lovely day for it although many crops have suffered from drought and recent heat.
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