Procrastination

I am rather good at procrastination. Here I show you some garden pictures. Truly, I'm taking a break from mammoth cutting out and hand sewing of market goodies, as a prelude to machine sewing.

The garden id feral. This is my lovely apricot tree with a good amount of fruit and swamped by the plants around it (away from the trunk). I noticed today lorikeets visiting, to test the fruit for ripeness no doubt. Hmm, a net may be in order.

Passionfruit. The flowers.

And the fruit forming. The one fruit where every single one is eaten by me, Clare and Ally.

Need to cut back the lavatera.

Oyster Plant (acanthus?) flowers for the first time...abundantly. Does this mean it's going to die?  It fills a gap so splendidly.

The fig enjoys a bigger pot. Got it last year from Digger's, and the tag has gone AWOL, but it has a French name. I like fresh figs but don't have the room for, or want, a massive fig tree.

Trying a couple of hanging tomato planter bags - $5 from the Reject Shop. Working well so far, but may be not durable in the long term.

Poppy seed heads are quite photogenic.

 Back to sewing now.

 

Comments

[Tania]

If I was an apricot tree, I would feel naked without a hair net. Just sayin'.

[suse]

I love acanthus. Reminds me of my childhood home where they grew against the garage in a huge feral clump and the guinea pigs used to dash in there and hide for hours.

Also, acanthus is the plant you see everywhere in classical Greece, carved into pillars and around statues etc. That pleases me somehow, when here you see it mostly growing at railway stations.