Rainforest Fungi and Gardening

No glasses today. Tomorrow apparently. So I showed my face in work, explained the situation and was on my way home again by 9:30 am. I'm going to have tow ork my butt off when I finally get back, but for now I'm enjoying the enforced break, and finally feel like I'm starting to catch up on sleep and relax. The garden's looking fabulous too! Today I finished off weeding the last front bed, helped Alex to transplant one of the mystery (citrus?) trees from out the back (they're planted in far too shady a spot and are barely alive. Now one's in a sunnier spot in the front, and if it does ok, we'll move at least one more of the remaining two), mulched and did the pruning. The poor old camellia got a very gentle pruning since it's in bud already - I never got around to pruning it back after last year's flowering (I'm too short to reach much of it).

I need to re-pot the curry tree and the portulacas and poison the weeds along the paths and the gravelled area down the side (where nothing other than weeds will ever grow - it's gravel over back plastic), and that's pretty much it. Of course, the back garden could use a whole lot more love, but we're only renting, and it's already vastly improved from the mosquito-infested pile of rotting philodendrons and builder's rubble we inherited. When we moved in most of the garden beds were empty and the previous tenants had purely mowed over the top with a line trimmer. It's a real garden now, with lashings of herbs, tomatoes, chillies, capsicums, lavender and other assorted goodies. The grevillia we put in in January has it's first bud already - can't wait for it to flower.

So at least something productive has come out of failing vision. The tax paperwork hasn't been done yet (it'll wait for the new glasses), but I did make some lemon-passionfruit butter that's utterly divine, and that's good enough. ;-)