Spring is upon us

Ellen says...
Sign of Spring in My dwarf nectarine is just started to break out from the buds - but I think that's b/c I've put it in the ground .

Last week I went to a local garden center, and found their dwarf nectarine in pots all are flowering already .

culebra says...
Hi Amanda,

nice photos.
is the second one a Geraldton wax? seems fitting for you location.

I have a huge one growing down near the side of my house. the flowers are a lighter shade of pink to yours.

culebra says...
'but not too far into old wood.'
yes definitely i found out the hard way when i performed a renovative pruning on my Gero.
if you cut into old wood they take AGES, literally years to regrow. Mine is also blooming now, on the other side of Oz :).

culebra says...
i have that second grevillea in my yard.

i don't particularly like it, not the showiest one around IMO.

i will remove it soon, it is infested with borers.

i like Grevillea 'moonlight' a nice one and have several specimens in my garden.

culebra says...
You have quite a collection Amanda.

another nice grevillea i have growing in my yard is Grevillea Forest Rambler.
it has a nice small pink flower and smallish grows max about 1.5m tall but covers several across. prefers a shady spot. birds love it.

I used to have a prostrate one called G. 'Bronze Rambler' with attractive crimson flowers but it unfortunately died last summer. so much for being drought tolerant!

culebra says...
finches? I used to keep & breed them.
Do you know what species frequent your area by any chance? good work on doing some habitat resoration too.

native finches are unfortunately absent from my area.
in other areas of Victoria i see the native red browed finches on occasion where they can be locally common.

locally i do see the introduced European goldfinch and greenfinch sometimes but even these are uncommon and possibly declining. (though the above abound in Tas).

unless you count the sparrow (house and tree- in Melbourne) as finches. (wait i have noticed sparrows have definitely declined markedly in Melbourne in recent years) and u (fortunately) don't have sparrows in WA (AFAIK... yet) due to determined efforts to exclude them, along with starlings, indian mynahs, blackbirds et al. which are so common on this side of the continent and which fruit growers (getting back on topic) perpetually struggle to protect their crops from. :)

CJ says...
Hi Amanda, what's the third grevillea in yours pics? It's gorgeous!

Jimmy says...
You can get a lot of these from garden express. i have the fireworks one and it is really good.

culebra says...
swallows are great little birds.
their aerial acrobatics and speed are amazing.
i like how they sometimes return to the same nest year after year.

oh and willy wagtail must be one of my fave aussie birds.

Db says...
Wow, thats super productive tree Jenny.. Mine is only 1.5yr old tree and currently have over 1000 berries, so yummy...

ivepeters says...
There is nothing better than coming home to find all my dormant trees coming alive, persimmon, almond, pecan, figs all with leaves starting to come out.
Amazed to find both my Cherry of the Rio Grande in flower, only 2 years.
All the citrus flowering like crazy.
Spicezee is flowering, much later than the other stonefruit.

ivepeters says...
No , got 2 seedlings from Forbidden Fruits. Hopefully there'll be fruit soon.

kim14 says...
so beautiful! How tall are the plants?

kim14 says...
sounds like they're at fruiting age. Good luck! :)