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I wouldn't have planted it along the front verandah, as the previous owners did, but the view from my bedroom window is magical. I prune it heavily in summer to prevent it damaging the house. It's not a problem weed in my part of Australia.

I took this photo of my nieces' retired ponies on 19/9/25, so they're now a year older. They live at my sister & her husband's farm in SE Australia & haven't been ridden in over a decade.

Kowhai is Maori for yellow. This dazzling small tree is seldom grown in Australia. The flowers are sought out by honeyeater birds.

The flowers smell like carnations.

Narcissus 'Tete a Tete', with Acacia decora in the background, SE Australia 29/8/26

One of my favourite daffodils.

Growing between stone steps in my SE Australia garden. It's native to SW South Africa, classified as 'vulnerable' in the wild.

Estella in the garden & catching up on her garden reading. I've snuck in a photo of my nieces' retired ponies Miffy & Emmy under the plum trees.

I don't know what species this tiny bee, less than 1cm long, is. 'Fruhlingsmorgen' ('Spring Morning') is, appropriately, the first to flower in my garden. Taken 19 October 2025.

Taken on 2 July. C. sieberi, from the mountains of Crete, is the first to bloom in my SE Australian garden.

From the forests of Central America. It's growing between the house & water tank, where it survived -4°C this winter in SE Australia. It's over 2 m tall.

A relative of forsythia, this honey-scented, smallish shrub is endangered in its native Korea. Taken today in my garden in SE Australia.