I've been trying over the last two to three years to add more white-blooming plants to various corners of the garden.  It's now poss...

Here we are in mid-Summer and we're waiting patiently for the arrival of the wet season.  There have been a few light showers, but drizz...

I've just returned from spending some of the semester holidays with my grandchildren.  They really wanted to go somewhere where they cou...

After a long nine-month dry season, we've been looking for the signs of the imminent arrival of the yearly monsoonal wet season.  O...

In reference to today's post title, I have to say I was a little 'bummed out' not to get a better shot of this marvellous creatu...

Well I'm back from my little break, and I was greeted by the sight of some of my lovely Hemerocallis on show.  This is their time to shi...

I've got a couple of pots of Oriental, Asiatic and L.A. Hybrid Liliums out in my courtyard, and they're providing fabulous sights an...

I've been so fortunate to play a part in caring for the Roses in our school Rose garden, and this year has been a particularly great yea...

A pair of Nectarinia jugularis or Yellow-Breasted Sunbirds (also known as Olive-backed Sunbirds) have been busy building a nest undernea...

Over the weekend, I found myself enjoying a leisurely Sunday breakfast at a park beside our local river.  This particular park is found in t...

The bugs are out and about and partying wildly.  No, not garden bugs, but the horrid virus bugs.  One of the downsides to our glorious winte...

It's Zygocactus time here in the tropics.  You know it's our wintertime when they begin blooming.   Now I know Schlumbergera truncat...

The Hypolimnas bolina, known as the Common Eggfly or Varied Eggfly Butterfly, is indeed a very common sight in gardens here.   Although I...

We've begun our last Autumn month here in north-eastern tropical Oz and I have created just a simple mosaic to show what's been goin...

Here we are ... it's the beginning of April, our mid-Autumn month and there's some pink and purple out in the shadehouse and cour...

I was lucky enough just recently to be able to visit the Roma Street Parklands down in our capital city.  This fabulous parkland area is loc...