Six on Saturday – Ruby Trees 27🌸5🌸23
It has been unusually still for us this autumn and unusually cold, so the autumn foliage did not get blown or burnt off like it usually does! So we have had a sustained period of autumn colours, which for us in my garden, is an unusual treat. A delight that people get more in the eastern states where it is colder in places.
Our summers the last few years have not been as hot or as sustained, making them easier to live with. But the winter weather has come in earlier into autumn, making the winters longer. For me our winter is colder and wetter, so that makes better gardening weather for me. I quite like cloudy moist days, it is great to garden in. But we had to move much quicker into our winter clothes and winter behaviour. My drinking water has to be topped up with a little warm water, so they aren’t so cold to drink. They are advertising ‘oodies’ and other thermal TV watching blankets that are lined in thick fleece on TV. It’s like you are wearing a fleece blanket around the house. I don’t wear one but the children love them. We don’t have central heating here in Australia, so we have to adopt other passive heating methods! The fur covered hot water bottles have really come back into fashion here, to help keep your feet toasty in bed. To avoid running up a large electricity bill. We watch TV under donnas in the coldest part of winter. We wear much thicker jumpers here too.
The foliage of the numerous Manchurian pears throughout the garden are glowing a rich ruby with the unusually still conditions of this autumn.
The pretty Plum Pudding is still flowering amongst the calendulas, a little black spot on her leaves with the cool weather doesn’t detract from her elegance.
Perfume Delight is a delight! She is quite slow to bloom for me, but if I give her special attentions by watering her, even when she doesn’t bloom in the summer months, and she blooms nicely the other side for me in autumn. 
Little symphony of autumn flowers felicias, pelargoniums, salvia Marine Blue, Cineraria saxifraga.
A close-up of the pretty staff pelargonium that flowers for months with very little effort on my behalf! My favourite sort of plant. This one was growing in a friend’s garden and is super reliable it could almost be a landscaping plant in our country. 
Second ever blooms on my new rose bush Orangerie after the rain. While I’m a big lover of old roses, I also love modern roses in the old style, with modern colours but the old style and modern breeding to make them very reliable to bloom more, and maybe less susceptible to disease. Although my really old roses don’t get much disease either, they are real toughies too.That’s all from me.
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Thanks for visiting. Happy Gardening – Sarah
