Sweetpea's Garden

Very terrible photo but I would love and ID on this ... I bought it as a 'NoddingViolet "
Has purple mauve flowers with a white throat and a few spots on the throat .
sa far likeing indirect bright light . Has fleshy oval hairy leaves ??????????



Plumbago ..this is another tough plant ..looks a little shabby towards the end of summer ,but has survived only only excess air con water ....not much love
As the title says ..this was the view out the window half hour ago...pelted all the way home from work and drizzled here ...and dazzling sunshine at 5.30 pm
The dead looking shrub out the window above is actually a solanum shrub ..a shrub potato vine ..its another tough one . with a beautiful blue flower .. . I have a feeling if you lived in a kinder climate it would be a pest .(shirley stackhouse say zone 9-11 which translates as ....not me but all desert inland across to wa and sa and qld ..i disagree takes frost and heat equally well)

Polygalas are tough and pretty.
They come in both dwarf and full size shrub versions .
This was planted last autumn .It sulked a little thru winter and early spring but ,took off once summer hit.
It gets watered deeply about once a week .One thing that has bothered it was the heatwave back in Feb , a few branches have dried off on one side .
So far it has flowered all summer .

'Black Beauty ' Buddlea
These grow very well here I have also got flowering a mauvey pink one ...
We have had funny weather recently .......hot then freezing ..literally 3 degrees in December .The sunrises have been stunning and the cloud play awesome ... drove home thruough a madssive storm today ...hail and lightening

note the stripped lucerne and grass plants

the black things are locusts
no green here
In the last few days amazing amounts have hatched .....we have very little green left ...our crops have turned ...But the neighbours ..oh my- they have lucerne ..sparse and spindly but green .
Tomorrow we'll report to the pp board ....( they aren't that interested..possibly tell us it's not a big enough band ... ) and see what comes of it ...
hopefully we'll be able to do th neighbourly thing and helpa little ...
I shudder to think how its going to be whe nthey are flying ...its still green and lush around Boroowa .
Amazing to see a carpet of hoppers .

happy looking flower isnt it ... its a new release ..
first hatch of langshan + a few layer crosses ....these two hens are sharing ..they sat on the eggs toggether ..and now are shaing 12 chicks ..nicely..