Actually I was trying to zoom in on a tiny garden spider, but it saw me coming and hid amongst the petals. Instead you just get a very close look at the colour of the petals in autumn of this floriferous floribunda rose called "Moonsprite".

I always love it when this rose starts its autumn colours - lucky it still had leaves to turn colour! We had such a long drought that I didn't expect much of an autumn for pretty autumn colours. The leaves were really "blowin' in the wind" when I was attempting to take a few shots with the cam!

I'm not sure if I have the right daisy, but this seems to be the nearest looking one in my books. Mine has silver foliage. Its the toughest little bush, we never water it, so it survives just on rain water - and as we've just had a very long drought, it went for 6 months with nothing but the morning dew! This is one to consider if you're thinking of planting a water-safe garden. It will grow from softwood cuttings.

We have a few different correas growing in various bush gardens. This one I grew from cutting to make sure I got the same colour. Its an upright twiggy bush, not quite a metre tall, and there's a row of them that I planted. Its very similar to the Correa pulchella which covers a huge area in one of the bush gardens, forming a big mat of green most of the year, but in flower right now and through winter. I like the effect of low growing matting plants with tall trees that I used in that particular bush garden. The row of Dusky Bells edges a section of that bush garden.

Weighed down by the raindrops this pretty rose has been budding up for another brief showing before I start with the pruners. Time to think about checking all my pruning equipment - mid-June and I'll begin the long haul peppered with wet days spent indoors (to give my back & arms a rest). It usually takes me 6 weeks for the actual pruning and the big heap of prunings will rise to a mammoth size by the end of the job!

Clair Matin is a climbing rose that can be trained into a large shrub.

Single roses seem quite unperturbed with rain on the petals, at least this little rose doesn't seem to mind. This one is quite a low grower (knee height), the blooms are quite large and showy and often borne in small clusters. They make a refreshing change amongst the large many petalled blooms and actually look similar to a clematis.