Weather cold Tuesday but fine, rain overnight. Temps 1-7 Wednesday. Lit fires in paddock to get rid of garden waste and gorse etc, remaining from the cleanup in March. There had been little rain the previous fortnight so fires were still possible.
Planted 3 Wallflowers, the wonderful Winter Joys, the cream Clematis bought at the Maytime Fair and remaining daffodils (probably too late for them). I divided up a clump of Bulbinella and replanted two offshoots in other parts of the garden The clematis will hopefully climb up the verandah post, the 3rd to do this. The other two have been great success. Amazingly, a dark red gladioli is in full bloom on south side, planted at Christmas time. Amazing in that it is flowering so late. The Bog Sage at the back is still flowering well, and a few dahlias are hanging on, although the frosts have started. The chrysanthemums are now doing well, although the small pink flowering one has almost finished flowering. The pink salvia is still full of blooms. I took several cuttings as it obviously does very well here. Several kniphofias (yellow and orange) are still in flower and more blooms are coming. Over the past year, there always seems to have been at least one of them in flower.
I picked the last of this year's apples. Great for cooking. There were no mushrooms in the paddock this year despite all the rain. Evidently there was not sufficient warm weather at the right time for them.
A visiting neighbour mused that the time is not far away when I'll have to park the car outside the front as I keep chipping away at the lawn with new plantings!
