Greetings and pic spam.

[curiouswombat]

Firstly - to everyone going to WriterCon - have a wonderful time - safe travel there and safe travel home.

For those of you staying at home like me - never mind - there will still be some of us around on LJ!

I hope everyone is coping well with whatever weather you currently have - here it is hot, for us, around 28-29C, 85F ish - although my car's external thermometer got up to 31C (90F) over lunch time, when the sun was shining on it. But we have the tiniest of breezes, which has kept it reasonably pleasant.

I have been out with my jug, watering all my plants at least once a day, because they don't last long without water, being all in pots. So under the cut are some pictures of how my plants are enjoying the weather -



My lilies have opened - they just sat there as buds for about six weeks, and I thought they would never open, but look -



The sweetpeas that I bought as one little tray of seedlings have provided height and colour in four different areas of the yard, and smell wonderful. They remind me of childhood holidays at my aunt and uncle's in a village about six miles from home - I must write about Lily and Nelson sometime - maybe later in the week!





Frog looks happier than he did last time I put a picture of him onto my journal, as he is now surrounded in colour - nasturtiums, cream marigolds, and snapdragons -



And our climate just seems to suit fuchsias - this one is in a tub in a fairly shady spot - the colours of this are really this bright -






Tonight we may well have thunderstorms, and so some of these may not look quite so good tomorrow!

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Very nice Stargazer lilies and I love Sweet Peas but they really don't do well in this climate, it's too hot too early for them.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I bought the lilies in a kit from the local supermarket - the bulbs complete with pot and compost cost about $6. I am very plaesed with them.

I had never tried sweetpeas until last summer, and they did well - it didn't really get hot here until mid May, and then we have a few hot days followed by a cooler one or two, so they grow well without much more than regularly reminding them to grow up the canes. A couple of them are in a pot under the pear tree, and they have caught hold of a few leaves of the tree and the clematis which also grows up it and are heading up that way - which is rather fun!