Someone has just celebrated his birthday. I baked a lemon drizzle cake for him, using our own lemons.
The weather has been kind of crazy here lately. We are towards the end of May and we still haven’t had a frost. We were very close, right at the start of April, but not really even close since then. It has also been rather dry. We have had bits and pieces of rain, but not a lot, so quite a bit of watering has still been happening. With the latest weather event that has caused serious flooding all down the east coast of NSW, we have received just 12mm. That was rather lovely, as it was nice and gentle, so all soaked in.
Anyway, let’s see what is happening at the moment.
Firstly, our lemon tree in a pot has had its first decent crop of lemons, with fifteen. The last couple of years we have only had a couple.
We are starting to see some of the winter flowers emerge.
I love the faded colour of the hydrangea blooms as they fade. In addition to these, the daphne is budding up nicely.
There are quite a few summer flowers that are still hanging in there. Some frosts will put paid to them.
We also have some colour in the pots on the back verandah. Inside, the zygocactus are budding up. They will be a hot pink.
Not much is happening in the vege patch. The rainbow chard is still going strong and surprisingly, the strawberries are still putting out the occasional flower and berry. That won’t last for much longer.
We have done a tiny bit of planting. We have put in a lot of onions and planted out a bulb worth of garlic cloves. If you look closely, you can see a few of our weedy little onions and at the bottom of the photo you can see the garlic sticking its head out. These were only planted a week before the photo was taken, so we were a little surprised to see how quickly the garlic have emerged. The rain we received over the last day or so will have done them the world of good.
So, that’s where things are at present. Most things will now go into hibernation until the ground warms up in September.
10 comments:
My goodness me, your garden lovelies are way ahead of ours. No sign of our daffs yet, though the freesias are everywhere as usual and some irises have thrown up some leaves too. We had 15mm last week & only 26 for the month so far & a couple of frosts last week too. So many farm dams in our area are completely dry. We definitely need rain. Thanks for sharing, take care & hugs.
Happy birthday to Mick! Well done to the lemon tree, it must have decided to get on with fruiting. We haven't had a frost yet, but it's still May......
Happy Birthday Mick..
Your gardens slowly growing , some nice blooms and good to see some produce popping up.
Hubby's birthday certainly needed to be celebrated with a cake, the lemon drizzle cake looks rather nice indeed.
One day I must make a lemon drizzle cake. I never have. Your lemons look great.
Always fun to see other peoples gardens - thank you. How lovely to have your own lemons! xx
Your garden must still look lovely. All is asleep here and still a lot of tidying up needing to be done. Oh and the rainbow chard is still going nuts!
Happy Birthday Mick, great choice of cake... the garden is looking good for this time of year...
Hugz
I am enjoying everything you are growing. It is so pretty.
I always enjoy your garden shots.
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