What's Blooming On This Late Autumn Day In My N.E. Downunder Garden?

Lovely blog Bernie, and i always look at your website too !
Your courtyard areas have to be one of my favourites.

Fabulous blog and some great photo's .I do like the
Pelargonium peltatum ‘Blanche Roche’.:o)))

Thanks so much Louise. The courtyard garden is still a work in progress this year. Usually by now there would be loads of potted colour out there, but a cyclone and heavy wet season caused some delay. It's on the way now though and I've started the potting up. I'm hoping for a lovely long cooler and sunnier winter and spring.

Mushy ... the Blance is a stunner and I'm so pleased it managed to pull through. The flowers are just smashing.

You may have had a battle with the weather Bernieh, but the flowers in your garden are wonderful. I agree with Mushy the Pelargoniums are beautiful.

Thank you Linda. It's a pleasure to see the Pellies come through along with so many of the other plants. It's also rather lovely to be able to sit back after the long drawn out post-cyclone clean up and just enjoy the flowers out in the garden once more.

It looks like a colourful time for you :) I hope your plants will cope with the dry weather. And I hope you are recovering after the terrible weather you had recently.
Here everyone moans if it's dry, and they moan if it's wet lol - what do they want ?
I want it warm !

Hywel, you'd probably think our autumn/winter weather is warm ... the temps here are finally dropping to around 25 deg C (77F) during the day and the nights have started getting rather cool with temps around 16 deg C (60F). This is our cold time of year!

As for the plants, most of the damaged ones are drought tolerant so I'm hoping they will do okay. They should have deep enough tap roots to be able to get through without rain ... but they still look awful. They're all just stumps with bits of new growth sticking out ... all about 1/4 or less of their previous size. Still, there's nothing much I can do about it other than wait and see.

I like those temps you have now. I don't care if it rains or if it's dry but I hate cold temps. Pitty it couldn't stay like that all the time lol

I wish we had wildlife like yours Berniah :) Sorry to hear about your weather conditions, Ive just spent a lovely half hour searching through your blogs and pics, "sigh" Beautifull garden, despite the weather. I hope the sun shines for you and your plants...

Hywel, I would love it if these conditions stayed all year round ... I could do without our summer!

Youngdaisydee, it's lovely to catch up with you again. We are indeed blessed with lovely wildlife here ... that's part of why I love this spot in the hills so much. Sights like those Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos are an every day event here. I'm glad you enjoyed visiting my blog ... it's something I'm really enjoying as I get to visit with fantastic gardeners and gardens. Thanks for your wishes about the sunshine ... we sure do need it here.

Love to see your garden , its not very warm here at all infact today its only got to 12 and i'm freezing had to put heating on to warm house up, hope you are keeping well and thanks for showing your beautiful plants etc to us, all the best Bernieh x.

Hiya Bernieh,I always love to see your blogs on here and your website, really pleased you are getting sorted after all the destruction caused in your part of the world.
Lovely colourful pics, its grand to see the birds as well, obviously so different from my garden birds which makes it all the more pleasurable to see in your blogs, hope you get your courtyard potted up to your satisfaction, I`ve always admired that its a favourite of mine.. Sending best wishes and hopefully sunshine...

A fantastic display Bernieh beautiful pictures and plants;0)

Carol ... that does sound a little cool. It's early morning here and is 16 deg C (60F) which is typical for late autumn. Some people (thinking of hubbie here) think this is freezing weather and have to rug up! Of course we dont' have heating in our house so I have to listen to him moan every morning until at least spring now!!!

Linclass ... I'm glad you enjoyed your visit to my blog. A couple more weekends of potting up the seedlings and I'll be more pleased with the courtyard. I love my colour at this time of year, especially out there as we do spend so much time in that space. Yes the clean-up is finally over. It really did take a very long time so we're feeling a whole lot happier now it's all done.

Thanks Pansypotter and Homebird for your kind comments as well.

Just beautiful,Bernie..I so look forward to seeing all your lovely plants..I tried to grow Cleome a couple of times,but no success..so its nice to see yours :o) Pleased your garden is flourishing again,after the weather you had...happy gardening .:o)

Thanks Bloomer. I'm a huge fan of this variety of Cleome as it just does so well here. The flowers are gorgeous. It's a shame you haven't had success with Cleomes, but I know you've got lots of other great plants.

Yes, things are starting to flourish again. There's still a whole heap that are continuing to recover and are still what I would term 'stumps', but at least they're recovering. The weather has been brilliant and looks like it will continue that way for some time, so I'm out in the garden every moment that's spare.

Beautiful pics as always Bernieh. Lovely to see the wonderful array of colours you have down there. Here today it is cold and persistently raining. Glad to hear your having sunshine. :o))

Hello Linda. It has been very pleasant here, finally. The weather is turning a little cooler as we approach the end of our autumn. Today it's a little overcast so we might be get some rain ... thankfully the torrential rain is well and truly over though.

Fingers crossed that the sun will be out once again over there for you and your days will warm up a little bit.

Sun is trying it's best today, but there's a cold chill in the air, and when it clouds over, it gets quite cold. The old saying of "don't cast a clout, till May is out" is proving to be well and truly right. :o))