Day: March 12, 2009

How to date an entry that is to be posted at a later time LOL

The one just posted titled Yesterday should have been published in the morning – our time :))

Anyway hope you enjoy it

Yesterday I was trying to get some shots of the raindrops on the Sedum and this is all I could come up with.There has to be a knack in getting the right angle to show what you want people to see – does that make sense to you?

Considering the awful heat and lack of rain we have had this summer the roses in the background of the next photo still look quite healthy, they are at the back of the bed and near tall shrubs so they get some shade at the hottest time of the day and then into the afternoon.

This is the crop of Sedum that took Kiera’s fancy – the close up photos are from a different crop.

Even tho it doesn’t look like it the whole of the bed was mulched quite heavily at the start of the season and also after the last rain we had before Christmas yet the ones at the front didn’t fare so well. With the strict water restrictions we have I couldn’t rationlise giving them precious drinking water from the tap, on the times I had a bath I would bucket them but in the end decided they would have to take their chances the same as everything else.

What an awful looking scene this is, can you see the remains of the little veggie patch we dug in the middle. We planted cucs and other bits there last Spring but even tho’ it hurt me to pull them out in the end the lack of water took its toll and it hasn’t been that expensive to buy what we needed. Plus I have a friend who grows for a living and we’ve done very nicely from her gifts over the Summer

I must remember to take those buckets back to the paddock and get them filled with horse doodad again. Theres a whole load ‘maturing’ in the background ready to dig in with the roses again this winter and if you don’t get there when the lady is clearing the paddock you miss out – on those days she’s the ‘best friend’ of half the neighbourhood. LOL

As you can see I had company – Kiera aka Brookwood Maura Delight, yes she’s a Brown Burmese, – who always likes to know what’s going on and puts her nose in to all sorts of places, whether its appreciated or not!

I’m reckon she’s thinking – ‘I’m not sure where I’m going but it looks interesting’

Anyway we’d just had shower of rain and having a go at the real art farty type stuff I was trying to snap raindrops on theSedum Autumn Joy which appears to be the only thing that seems to have survived. Not sure about the salvias in that area………..there seems to be green shoots coming up there so we can but hope lol

Watch out here comes sticky beak !!

She hung around while I snapped away……………………I’ll show you those tomorrow – but today is all about this little madam.

Then she tootled off to investigate the Nepeta patch under the roses – what roses you ask. They are still there – just.

Last weeks rain will have done them good and if the cooler weather continues I’ll give them a pick me up drink of Seasol and a little haircut.

‘Now this smells familar’

The cats love Nepeta and it always puts on a good show in the Spring with the early rose blooms.

No rolling around on the plants like they often do on sunny days but I think she still reckoned she could smell that lovely aroma that comes off this plant when its crushed.