Now that the sun is shining and the rain is still falling, the weeds are bursting out everywhere. The one border that I've managed to tidy completely is the (very small) one in front of the house. It's a random selection of subtropical plants with one very old rose. The weedmat that Ian laid down is doing its job well so it was really just a question of pulling back the grass that was beginning to encroach from the lawn.
The rose has been pruned back to ground level a few times and after I gave it a good dose of sheep pellets, it has started flowering. Shabby, tatty pink flowers but flowers nevertheless. One of the bromeliads is in bloom too.
The flametree logs that make a boundary for the border have produced an amazing crop of fungus too - it looks like wood ear but I won't be taste-testing it.
The copper skinks love to sunbathe on the logs and I found a frog a few weeks back enjoying the cool shade of the agave.
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