Well hello all of you Summery gardeners. We are bedding down for the Winter. Winter here means a different set of flowering plants, though. We don't get snow - just a few frosts. Yesterday three Brolgas - large native storks - flew over us and discussed our wetland. Decided it was a bit small and flew off. The early settlers called them "Native Companions" and the farmers around us still refer to them by this name sometimes.
We don't have a garden as such - except for a few small vegetable ones. The rest is grassy woodland - or will be when we finish replacing the pasture weeds.
Lots to do this year. Our little mob of coloured sheep got mauled by neighbour's pet dogs and had to be killed. So horrible! but we have to move on. We were slowly planting up the place, behind fences, and letting the sheep keep the weeds down until we'd got the whole place done. Now we'll have to move faster before the weeds take over. We'll plant about 1000 trees and shrubs this year and many thousand ground flora plants as well. We have a few tiny remnants of indigenous grassland where Chocolate lillies and Weeping grass hang on. Joy