These are down near our dam, one original and two that have grown since we arrived.

Notice how green everything is now after the RAIN!

This little rose changes colour with the seasons. In our warm parts of the year the rose is quite a deep pink, sometimes its two toned deep and pale pink, but our cold nights has affected the colour and produced this delicate version of the rose.

Its Souvenir de St. Anne's, a sport of the well known S.D.L. Malmaison, and discovered

in Ireland. My bush is towering over me right now (about 7-8 ft tall) with quite a few of these blooms opening or about to open.

In the sunlight

The background of green is from the golden elm with the sun shining through the wet leaves.

This one is called "New William Shakespeare"

This is the "Laurina" which always blooms in April here, but it seems to be

running late this year, April is nearly over! This flower is very popular

amongst the birds - they love its sweet nectar.

The daily job of sweeping the leaves has begun...

A modern shrub rose that covers itself with these blooms and makes a welcome splash of

colour in the rose garden.

Not that we have many weeds this year, the drought and lack of rain saved us from the usual summer weeds!

This little rose is just waking up after a long hot summer. All my roses stopped growing and performing from the excessive heat and lack of rain, but the cooler autumn days they like, and some are making buds and new leaves again. Here's one of the first, a little battle-scarred, called "Judy's Song" named for an Australian pop singer from the past.

Wasn't there a song with these words?

These are leaves of the Lilly Pilly, a tree that bears little purple fruits.

PS. I'm loving this lens!

Has been pointing to the north the past 11 days of heat wave, and another

week is forecasted for 38-39C, phew!

As the temperature soars to 40-C its lovely to look out at the cooling greenery with the first flush of autumn colour.