After The Rain ..

Rain is so beautiful....

After four days of drizzle and light rain with the gauge collecting 88mm the grass is now starting to green up, after months of dead brown grass the green lifts your spirits even if they are weeds green is a lovely colour actually its my favourite colour and as I look around me there is green everywhere and so many different shades with the grass and leaves Nature's pallet is so beautiful.. When the sun finally comes out there will be fungi of all descriptions popping up out of the soil like these little toadstools you know I can just imagine the fairies sheltering from the rain under these umbrella's that Mother Nature grows.


One thing the rain brings and thats plenty of weeds and it good to get out in the garden and pull the weeds up as the soil is soft and its no effort, even if I am of a age where I have to bring a little wooden box with me to sit on as along the garden edge there it is very soft and soggy and there are heaps of weeds. Its a shame that the rain ruins the pretty flowers and all the petals fall off though a small price to pay so that more flowers can grow and the trees can get their new leaves which heralds the Spring..

And Spring is such a beautiful time when the entire garden comes alive in most places, I live in a subtropical climate and I have flowers of all descriptions year round even in the Winter the garden is alive with the red of the Poinsettia which flowers for months.
The Australia Natives start blooming and the red of the Callistemon is a sight to see I also have cream ones and Grevillea they are flowering also, the red and the orange are alive with bees they are feasting on the nectar same as the birds especially the Lorikeets.


And its not long before the bulbs and corms start flowering the Anemones with their Pink, White, Blue and Red flowers are so pretty buts its the bight yellows that I love best the Roses and the Freesia's with their delightful perfume. The climate is too warm here for tulips, daffodils but we have plenty of others to make for them, and if it wasn't for the rain we would not have these beautiful Plants. So I am hoping this is the end of our Drought.