It's a rainy, grey early morning - but will you just look at Joss's hollyhocks?

In my Australian garden! Somewhere I have a photo of the twig these seeds came on - Joss brought it home from one of her walks with her maman. I planted three seeds, and they've taken two years to bloom, but they're beautiful

Cooler night, cooler morning

It was a much cooler night last night, and a cooler morning.

I'm going to cheat today, and buy some flowers as seedlings from the local place. I want to get the area around the vegies looking as pretty as Mark's place. I already have (thank you Jonathon) daffodils, jonquils, white violets and blue forget-me-nots. And bluebells (thank you, David Prior) . I put in some white cosmos, and the hollyhocks, and I want some nemesia and linaria.

I want it to look quite wild and beautiful and vaguely Italian. 

Glorious morning!

Warm and lovely, but quite windy.

Joss's hollyhocks are going in today (not a great germination rate yet - these came up very early.) They're going under the olive trees to start with,, and when I know what colour they are (in a year or two) the others might go in by the front door  :)

Today is Tuesday, which is Water The Raspberries day. The little sweetpeas I put in as Jonathon suggested by Paul's office are on their way up (I'll water them, too) but there is still no sign of the beans. At least - there is - they're just lying there, being beans. Those climing tomatoes, on the other hand are sprouting up among the stones. I'm going to rescue a coupls just in case the others drown under the lucerne mulching we did.

CURRENT CONDITIONS IN BOWRAL, NSW
Current Temp:22.5°C	Humidity: 26%	Pressure:1004.5hPa
Feels like: 22.5°C	Wind Speed: 39kp/h (Gusts: 72kp/h)
Dew Point: 2.1°C	Wind Direction: N/A

Two pea pods (both on the massey peas).

Also
Paul handspread 100 k of gypsum on the lawns (400sqm) - and watered it in.

We hear there are nasty fires in Sydney, and temps of 30+. Here it's windy and warm, but pleasant. Our yellow Builder told us not to light any fires, though. I think he suspects that we're stupid city people. He's probably right.

Imma start a garden journal and keep it here

View to the front garden today. Beautiful, yes?



It's very warm here today.

CURRENT CONDITIONS IN BOWRAL, NSW
Current Temp:23.7°C	Humidity: 25%	Pressure:1021.8hPa
Feels like: 23.7°C	Wind Speed: 30kp/h (Gusts: 48kp/h)
Dew Point: 2.5°C	Wind Direction: N/A

Despite the advice of the Old Locals, I put some tomatoes in yesterday (not till Labour day! No tomatoes in before Labour day!) and I'm sure they'll be proved right, but honestly how patient am I expected to be? I put in four Black Russian, two Yellow Pear and a Red Grape - all heritage. The Yellow Pears I put into containers (thank you, The Helpful Gardener blog) - and the red grape as well, just to be sure.

I also sowed six Jaune Flamme and six Brandywine.

Tomorrow I'll take a shot of the vegie patch, and note how everything else is going. Also, tomorrow - Jocelyne's hollyhocks go in :)