HumphreyCobbler thank you for your kind thoughts about my, effectively, houseplant alley.:o
After several very warm and humid days, the rain is hammering down, and most welcome. I mean this literally, as our roof is metal and the contact with the elements is very intimate. Still warm though, 25+ at nine in the evening, and every door and window open to let the breeze through
The damp should last while I rush around putting in native ground cover - creeping boobialla - which sounds like an MN username. It grows like mad, but flat, has lovely white flowers along its arms, and takes a trampling dog like a good 'un.
Autumn brings out the winter-flowering trees - lots of those. Thanks to be on shill, and some inspired gardening by the neighbour next door, we get lovely views of grevillea, bottle brush and banksia. And the lorikeets which scoff them.
In Oz, there's a tree in bloom every month, and I've often wondered if this is why asthma is horrendous here.
I follow the news in the UK and wonder how the hosepipe ban, so early, will affect gardeners. Here water restrictions were partially lifted, as a vote winner, to universal dismay; we could manage very well with some restrictions, and now there are tossers hosing down their drives.