Our snowdrops are peeking through. The standstill is about to end because the borders need clearing of winter debris.
Now, where are my fingerless gloves?? 
Well bizzle how about we both post a few notes and observations based on the jobs and growth in the garden? 
others would be sure to join in along the way!
To start with I've been planting up some belated bulbs in pots.
Some white tulips with a layer of white scented daffs on top.
I thought I'd position them in a dull darker part of the garden to liven it up a bit.
No snowdrops showing yet, but the Jet Fire and Tete a tete narcissus in the garden are up about 4 inches.
Also I'm thinking of filling a window box with some Primroses, to give me something to look at for the next few weeks.
I've been watching the blackbird strip my horizontal Cotoneaster of it's berries from the sitting room window. I'm glad he comes everyday. I'll have to find another food source for him when the berries have all been eaten!
How about you, whats happening in your garden?
It summer here, supposedly although only cool 65 degrees today, not what we expect at this time of year.
Mid-December is usually the time when everything flourishes and despite wind, rain and the fall-out from the Australian fires, the roses along my deck have done well.
They are Crepuscule, a lovely fragrant apricot-pink. Twining in among them is a climbing double geranium in vibrant cerise.
Because of the unseasonable cool, the tomatoes are only just in flower but I'm hoping the weather will improve (February is usually our hottest month except in El Nino years) and that will give them a boost.
Both tomatoes and roses love a good watering with Epsom Salts, about a cupful to 2-3 litres, every couple of months.
Other than that, I have a yellow Banksia Rose under my kitchen window, red and white pelargonium at the opposite side, a fig tree and anothe rose whose name I cannot remember but is a blueish pink and very, very fragrant.
The rest of my garden is in pots: Jasmine, rhubarb, some silver beet and potatoes but I fear as my eyes get worse, all this will have to go.
It's been hard work this year so I have to grasp the nettle (how's that for a gardening idiom? ) and accept that it's getting beyond me.
The roses and the geraniums will stay but I shall give the others to good homes where they will be looked after.
I gave away my precious Kowhai tree in Spring but to a lady who loves her garden. It's repaid her by flowering profusely, bless it.
I live right next to native bush which grows up to my windows, so I can enjoy greenery all the time. Very few NZ species lose their leaves adn of course there are birds in the bush....not in my hand !
I know longer have a garden and was delighted to see a container on my balcony with daffodil bulb tips sprouting through
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