endless summer

This is the "orchard" planted at the bottom of the garden.
No - not "Each peach pear plum"* but "peach,apple,nectarine,apricot."

There are also 3 old plum trees, a newish lemon with bright green fruit like golf balls on it, and a feijoa, all growing in other parts of the garden. The rosellas are eating all the feijoas this year.



The white cockatoos are making their usual mess eating the berries on the Hawthorn tree and breaking off little bits of foliage. This was swept clean 24 hours ago:


I work about five minutes (in the car) from The Biggest Hardware Store in The Southern Hemisphere, so during my lunch hour on Mondays I sometimes become a middle-aged man and go and mooch around in there looking at things. Today I bought some seeds to get going in some seed raising mix in trays on the back verandah.



Summer seems to be going on and on and on so it's too dry and hot to plant soft little seedlings or divide and move anything so I'll get some seeds going instead.


* much loved children's picture book by Janet and Allen Ahlberg