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 Ahhhhh at last I've had a few moments to get stuck into those jobs crying out for attention - and to enjoy the delights of the autumn garden (my favourite time of year around here....the mornings are crispy, but not cold.... the days a warm but not hot and humid... the wind is gentle..... beautiful!)

 this was supposed to be a white dahlia....

ooops someone got the labelling wrong!

I'll move it out of the white bed at the end of the season

we've harvested the HUGE crop of pumpkins and squashes...

  (this is just a small sample of the hubbard and blue banana and etc. squash sitting on the back verandah right now)

To my great delight our black mulberry tree decided to set another round of fruit.... and are they ever beauties!

and at last I've knocked some jobs off my 'to do list' (wheeeee)

TO DO

* order bare root fruit and nut trees

* take cuttings of hydrangea and woody herbs

*plant out decorative garden bed below the house

Completed

Autumn seeds planted: Ruby silverbeet, italian brocolli, red cabbage, late season carrot, hollow crwon parsnip, masey pea, oregon snow pea, italian white garlic, purple garlic, snowball cauliflower

old bath moved (at last!) and filled with water ready for the water plants (water chesnuts, water cress and more)

we've carpeted the path area in the vege garden (its true! we covered the ground in some old carpet we received - and we'll cover this with sand in the next while.... the carpet will keep the weeds down for a long time, before it eventually decays)

  camellia sasanqua - 'fuji-no-mine'... 

these are just starting to flower - the trees are wonderful when covered in white blooms

 blushing pink iceberg rose (its a lovely frothy mass right now....stunning!)

 

 

Picking/ eating

endive,  ivory eggplant, thai eggplant, pontiac potatoes, cherokee wax beans,  pak choy, green capsicum, sweet basil, roma tomato,  dried bortolli bean, black mulberries, white mulberries, watermelon, rockmelon, raspberries