Our Gardens

Sorry, no photos as my camera is not good enough, so you will have to imagine. I have two bird water baths north of the house and easy watching from the dining room table. In the extreme heat I've been topping up the bird water three times a day. In the last three days have watched yellow rumped thornbills, double bar finches, eastern rosellas, red rumped parrots, apostle birds, blue wrens, starlings, pee wees, currawongs, noisy miners, butcher birds all sipping and splashing.

@Zoffiel @SoldierCrab Heroic efforts both of you.

I'm looking at the flap of cloth that I haven't trimmed thinking, that can bloody stay there for the moment. Anything to reduce the sun on the back of the house. I've got a tank and a well to help keep the garden going, but I don't think either will be able to compete with the ongoing sauna. I bucket water from the bath too, @soldiercrab , but that's not too hard from the outside tub

that is looking great there Zoffiel.... yep had rain on friday out of town but the river has come up so that is good now the head about to begin again for us too. 
getting muscles on my arms from carrying all the bath and shower water out to my plants as we are on level 3 restrictions .... 30mins every 2nd day for the whole garden .... so supplementing them with the washing machine water from 2 machines son in granny flat  ( 1 to the apple tree garden and one to the stone fruit garden) then shower /bath water is to the veggie patch to try to keep it alive. 

This mornings effort, installed 2 bays of shadeclothsand blinds preparing for a run of +40 degree days. 45 on Tuesday. Which is just disgusting.

He's the biggest and hairiest bird I've ever seen ! ;)

Taken from the kitchen window

I hope my gardens aren’t a reflection of me atm. The back one is dirt and weeds and in desperate need of a makeover.  The front had a six foot hedge that I thought was blocking out too much light and making the house cold and damp(it was) so I ordered hubby to give it a vicious haircut back to about 3 foot. The whole front of house looks much more presentable and the hedge is filling in nicely but probably now shows that we need a new fence!

Not sure what it is but it suffered badly when we were burning off near the house this year. We've had koalas in all sorts of trees including pines.

GORGEOUS  @Sister - how lucky are YOU?   What sort of a tree it is??  Doesn't look like a gum!