Year: 2020

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Phew, what a week I have had, so far…the mornings are nice and cool and yet the afternoons are super muggy, humid and hot. We are still swimming in the pool and it’s a fun time of the year to be gardening here in Perth.

The calendar tells us that it is Autumn and if you have a close look around, there are some deciduous trees that are already turning golden hues and reddish tinges. My Cercis ‘Lavender Twist’ is all yellow and the leaves will fall anytime soon. I have planted a few Nyssa Sylvatica at various places in my neighborhood in the front gardens of friends’ homes and they have already shown us their sweet and very beautiful red leaves, just a few but enough to herald the change of season. The mornings are definitely cooler and the birds much more active in the garden, I think they are appreciating a little reprieve from the long summer.

This week we have the opportunity to “bring out our dead” which is what we call it when the council arranges to come and collect all of our green waste and also household junk sadly destined for landfill, though, I must say most of ours has gone hopefully to be repurposed by neighbors before it gets to landfill. So for me, that signals a time for a BIG post Summer prune and none of my plants is let off the hook, everyone gets a haircut!

We have a huge pile out the front of our place which is a very satisfying reflection of a big family effort. It will be gone next week, collected by a big truck that turns the green waste into compost and mulch.