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Or Maggi, are you able to lift it the photo from Facebook and put it here please? It's in a post about wax-eye birds.The note to go with it would read -"These 13 NZ native fantail birds were photographed in a garden shed near Dunedin in mid July (coldest part of winter here). The photographer was the outstanding Stephen Jacquiery who takes many, on every kind of subject, for Dunedin's daily newspaper, the Otago Daily Times. I was able to buy a copy of the photograph and have taken a phone photo of that."If you're not happy with this arrangement Maggi, just delete it, thanks.
All the very best Lesley, and enjoy the progress of spring through your garden.Over years I've learned to enjoy whatever highlights happen without worrying unduly about 'problems' or a 'to do' list. Admittedly more sensitive visitors may struggle to distinguish garden from wilderness but our compensation is endlessly fascinating nature. There are compensations in everything
Hello Fermi, good to hear from you and know that you are, presumably well. I hope Will is also. Hard to know what the Dickens is going on in Victoria at present and one is almost too frightened to ask. I haven't heard from Otto in a long time but then I haven't emailed him so that's my own fault.Spring here is also trying to creep in and people like Dave Toole have a lot of nice things out already, even a Trillium! My lot is mostly confined to some snowdrops, new ones in pots but those in the garden are still "locked down." (We've learned a whole new vocabulary or at least given known words new meanings with this darned covid thing). So crocuses and Cyclamen coum have been the best here so far. What with the Covid-19 and a postponed knee replacement surgery, my garden has become a wilderness over the winter and the retrieval is a long and quite painful process. Add to that two cataracts and deafness steadily getting worse, life is a bit problematic at present so it's really good to see some signs of approaching spring.Anyway, keep well and as we all learned to say following the Christchurch and Kaikoura earthquakes, Kia Kaha (stay strong). It WILL get better, won't it?
It's not quite spring, but August is officially the last month of winter. It's actually one of the best times for Australian wildflowers because of the rainfall and coolth before summer turns everything to straw and dust!Here are a few Aussie natives in our garden: Phebalium squamulosum, Grevillea lanigera and Hardbergia violacea (the white and pink forms are seedlings from a white flowering shrubby form)cheersfermi